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This Week's Guest:
Michael Eavis
30 November 2008
Repeated
5 December 2008 |
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Michael's Choice |
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Photograph by Ann Cook
Kirsty Young’s castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is Michael Eavis.
It’s more than thirty years since he launched the Glastonbury Festival at his dairy farm in Somerset. Back in 1970, the headline act was Marc Bolan – his fee for appearing was just five hundred pounds and party-goers were given all the milk that the farm’s herd of Friesians produced.
Over the years Michael risked losing his farm in order to fund the festival, faced years when the event was mired in mud and was criticised for booking a hip-hop act to top this year's bill. But, he says, he always felt compelled to keep the Glastonbury Festival going and now it attracts 180,000 people each year and brings millions of pounds into the local economy. |
1. Children of the Revolution
Performer Marc Bolan
Composer Bolan
CD Title The Very Best of Marc Bolan & T-Rex
Track 3
Label MUSIC CLUB
Rec No MCCD030
2. Twelfth Street Rag
Performer Pee Wee Hunt
Composer Sumner-Bowman
CD Title Pee Wee Hunt-Twelfth Street Rag/High Society…
Track Side 1 trk 1
Label CAPITOL
Rec No EAP 1-20109
3. How Great Thou Art
Performer Elvis Presley
Composer Hine
CD Title Peace in the Valley –The Complete Gospel Recordings
Track Cd1 trk 14
Label RCA
Rec No 07863679912
4. Uncle John’s Band
Performer The Grateful Dead
Composer Hunter, Garcia
CD Title Grateful Dead: Uncle John’s Band/New Speedway Boogie
Track Side 1
Label WARNER
Rec No WB 7410
5. I threw It All Away
Performer Bob Dylan
Composer Bob Dylan
CD Title Nashville Skyline
Track 4
Label CBS
Rec No CD63601
6. Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
Performer The Smiths
Composer Morrissey & music by Johnny Marr
CD Title The Smiths: Strangeways, Here We Come
Track 5
Label WEA
Rec No 4509918992
7. Waterfall
Performer The Stone Roses
Composer John Squire & Ian Brown
CD Title The Stone Roses
Track 3
Label SILVERTONE
Rec No 82876539712
8. The Scientist
Performer Coldplay
Composer Berryman/Buckland/Champion/Martin
CD Title Coldplay: The Scientist
Track 1
Label PARLOPHONE
Rec No CDR6588
Record: How Great Thou Art –Elvis Presley
Book: Blake by Peter Ackroyd
Luxury: A mouth organ with instruction book
Kirsty Young’s castaway next week is Mathematics Professor Marcus du Sautoy |
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