Glastonbury festival at 40

Simon Armitage, poet and singer-songwriter, on his memories of the festivalThe first festival I went to was Futurama in Leeds in 1980, in the dark, cavernous hangar of the Queen's Hall. I didn't fully appreciate it at the time but, looking back, the lineup was unmissable: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Young Marble Giants, the Durutti Column, Soft Cell, the Psychedelic Furs, Altered Images . . . One spotty lad sold fanzines in the foyer and his spotty girlfriend sold butto...

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