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80,000 fans attend the three-day-long Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, Somerset, England, UK, to see The Orb, Lenny Kravitz, Velvet Underground, Galliano, Stereo MCs, Saint Etienne and Rolf Harris. As a result of their guitars being stolen a week earlier, Verve play the NME stage with hired equipment. Tickets: £58. Programme: £4. Over £250,000 is raised for Greenpeace, Oxfam and local charities.
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Rolf Harris : I think they booked me as a joke. They put me on at ten a.m. on Sunday morning, thinking everyone would still be asleep.
Instead more than 70,000 people turned up and sang along to every single word of my songs. There were women holding banners saying, ‘Rolf, will you didgeridoo me?’ It was hilarious.
Pete Wiggs (Saint Etienne) : Glastonbury 1993 was the first festival we played. Walking out onto the main stage on a sunny afternoon and seeing a sea of faces was mindblowing. After the gig, slightly worse for wear, me and Sarah walked uninvited into a live tv interview meant for the Beastie Boys and confused the host with some surreal answers.
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Instead more than 70,000 people turned up and sang along to every single word of my songs. There were women holding banners saying, ‘Rolf, will you didgeridoo me?’ It was hilarious.
Pete Wiggs (Saint Etienne) : Glastonbury 1993 was the first festival we played. Walking out onto the main stage on a sunny afternoon and seeing a sea of faces was mindblowing. After the gig, slightly worse for wear, me and Sarah walked uninvited into a live tv interview meant for the Beastie Boys and confused the host with some surreal answers.