“One magical moment”
“Not only the greatest Glastonbury headline performance but the best headline slot at any festival ever” - NME
As you may already know and in fact may be enjoying right now, BBC TWO in the UK is celebrating 50 years of Glastonbury with a schedule packed with gems from the festival over the years. This is an impressive attempt to bring some cheer following the cancellation of this year's event.
Bowie first played there in June 1971 to a small but appreciative crowd, giving him the confidence to return twenty nine years later to a somewhat larger and a considerably more appreciative audience. That return to Glastonbury was twenty years ago today and BBC TWO will mark the event by screening the whole show on Sunday.
Today’s lyric quotation from Station To Station was a sentiment clearly shared by Glastonbury co-organiser, Emily Eavis, who commented in 2018:
“I often get asked what the best set I've seen here at Glastonbury is, and Bowie's 2000 performance is always one which I think of first. It was spellbinding; he had an absolutely enormous crowd transfixed. I think Bowie had a very deep relationship with Worthy Farm and he told some wonderful stories about his first time at the Festival in 1971, when he stayed at the farmhouse and performed at 6am as the sun was rising. And he just played the perfect headline set. It really was a very special and emotional show”.
Emily’s father Michael, the founder of the festival who first met David at Glastonbury in 1971 said “He’s one of the three greatest of all-time: Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and David Bowie.”
David Bowie Glastonbury 2000 is on BBC TWO on Sunday at 21:30.
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