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GLASTONBURY! What a year it’s been for the festival’s 50th anniversary year. All that mud, all that traipsing around, all those Pyramid headline extravaganzas, all those hippies in the Green Fields, all the weirdos in Shangri La — all on telly and online of course.
But thanks to the media frenzy around the festival it has been so well documented that the Eavises, and the organisers of almost every stage and area of the festival, have curated a virtual line-up to end all virtual line-ups.
For starters there’s a BBC Glastonbury channel featuring a mash-up of all the best headline sets, from Beyonce to Bowie, with the star man’s famous 2000 set broadcast in full for the first time.
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