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Fact #140148

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Pulp, brought in as last-minute replacements for The Stone Roses, provide one of the highlights of this year’s Glastonbury Festival at Pilton, Somerset, England, UK.

Full article:

Phill Savidge (publicist) : Pulp were asked to stand in for the Stone Roses at Glastonbury '95, because the Roses had pulled out at the last minute, but we didn't think they could pull it off on the main stage - they were just a band that we were into in the office. We thought it was going to be a bunch of pissed-up Mancs booing because they weren't the Roses, going, "Get off, you poof!" I really thought they might get bottled.

They came on and started with Razzamatazz - supposedly an obscure early single - and 60,000 people were singing along. It was revelatory. (Source : Mojo, April 2003)

Roger Morton (journalist) : From the first overdone Alvin Stardust jab of a pointed finger, the glitter-topped, cheese-keyboarded Pulp slayed the doubters with an unstoppable run of mock-melodramatic violin’n’organ climax pop. Forty thousand hearts melted. Pulp had conquered the enormo-gig.

Phill Savidge : It felt like they'd been beamed down from another planet to entertain us, it was so other-worldly. It was a bit of a party that weekend, all weekend. (Source : Mojo, April 2003)

Emily Eavis (daughter of Glastonbury founder, Michael Eavis) : I was fifteen when Pulp had their big moment, when they had to fill in for The Stone Roses who pulled out because somebody had a broken collar-bone, and I saw them. It was a really emotional moment, tapping into the emotion of the crowd. That was when I could just enjoy the festival for the entertainment value. That was a brilliant year, 1995. In my mind that was probably the best Glastonbury.

That’s always a brilliant opportunity for someone if an artist pulls out and someone has to fill in at the last moment. It adrenalizes people because they get thrown into it and they have to sink or swim.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black for Music Week, March 12, 2007)