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Glastonbury Fact File
Updated 2 June 2003
- Glastonbury festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world.
- The festival site is more than a mile and a half across, with a perimeter of about eight and a half miles.
- To get a real feel of the Glastonbury spirit head to the Field of Avalon, the Tipi Field, the Green Fields, the Healing Field, and the Sacred Space, all of which host the more alternative attractions of the festival
- 1970: The festival was held for the first time. It was known then as the Pilton Festival, a name it is still sometimes referred to by local people. It's estimated 1,500 people turned up with an admission price of £1. T. Rex were the main act.
- 1971: Glastonbury's famous Pyramid Stage made it's first appearance at the 1971 festival.
- 1981: The first Glastonbury festival to back the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament .
- 1992: For the first time donations from the festival's profits went to Greenpeace and Oxfam .
- 1994: Just over a week before the festival was meant to start the Pyramid Stage was burnt down overnight. A replacement stage was provided by the local council.
- 1995: This was the festivals 25th anniversary and was also the first year that the festival had a Dance Tent. Pulp play a triumphant headline slot after filling the place of The Stone Roses at only one weeks notice.
- 1997: The Year of the Mud. After torrential rain, the second stage is forced to close for most of Friday due to it being in danger of sinking. Radiohead play one of the most memorable sets in Glastonbury history.
- 1998: Robbie Williams becomes an unlikely Glastonbury hero when he wins over a 50,000 crowd with a sing-a-long to Angels on the Pyramid Stage.
- 2000: David Bowie returns to the festival in the Sunday headline slot. He had played at the first ever festival in 1971.
- 2001: No festival due to the large numbers of people who gatecrashed the 2000 event. Michael Eavis did not apply for a licence whilst a review of security was under way.
- 2002: The 'super fence' is constructed around the site's perimeter and successfully prevents people without tickets getting into the site.
- Feb 2003: Mendip District Council vote 10-4 in favour of granting a licence for the festival after initially refusing to grant a licence in December 2002. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin made his own personal plea for the festival to go ahead, writing a letter to the council.
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