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The
festival, which sells out of tickets within minutes even before
its line-up is revealed, will close on Sunday with R&B singer
SZA slated to perform hits such as "Kill Bill" and "The Weekend"
on the main Pyramid stage.
This year's edition will also feature Afrobeats sensation Burna
Boy, rapper Little Simz, American electro-rock group LCD
Soundsystem, English singer PJ Harvey and K-pop group Seventeen,
in one of Glastonbury's least rock-heavy line-ups in recent
years.
Sunny weather welcomed fans who arrived at Worthy Farm carrying
rucksacks and camping gear.
James Trusson, 30, a sound engineer from Somerset who had queued
overnight to be one of the first to arrive, said he had been
coming to Glastonbury for 11 years and he would keep coming back
because there was something going on in every field.
"It's just that magic you just don't get at any other festival,"
he said. "There's not a better feeling really. It's magical."
Known affectionately as Glasto, the festival was started by
dairy farmer Michael Eavis in 1970, opening the day after guitar
legend Jimi Hendrix died, with artists performing to 1,500
people who had bought 1-pound tickets which included free milk
from the farm.
More than 50 years since and with its current capacity of over
200,000 people, the site becomes a colourful and sometimes muddy
little city of tents for five days almost every June.
Fans spent 355 pounds ($450) for tickets this year, which sold
out in under an hour in November.
($1 = 0.7896 pounds)
(Reporting by Sarah Mills and Sachin Ravikumar; Editing by Hani
Richter)
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