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GLASTONBURY<br>The ruined church of St Michael on top of the Tor of Glastonbury

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St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor, Somerset.<br><br>©2006 Fortean / TopFoto<br><br><br>Glastonbury Tor is a teardrop-shaped hill at Glastonbury, Somerset, England, with its only standing architectural feature the roofless St Michael's Tower of the former church. Tor is a local word of Celtic origin meaning 'conical hill'.

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Glastonbury Tor, Somerset.<br><br>©2006 Fortean / TopFoto<br><br><br>Glastonbury Tor is a teardrop-shaped hill at Glastonbury, Somerset, England, with its only standing architectural feature the roofless St Michael's Tower of the former church. Tor is a local word of Celtic origin meaning 'conical hill'.

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Glastonbury Tor, Somerset - For the pilgrim the landscape of Avalon is a treasure trove where sacred sites abound. The most obvious to the visitor is Glastonbury Tor which can be seen from a great distance rising enigmatically above the flat Summerland meadows. There are many myths and legends associated with the Tor - it is the home of Gwyn ap Nudd, the Lord of the Underworld, and a place where the fairy folk live. Over the last few years there has been discussion about the significance of the terracing of the Tor. It was proposed first by Geoffrey Russell and then expanded on by Geoffrey Ashe, the well-known Arthurian scholar, that the terracing on the slopes of Glastonbury Tor is the remains of a great three-dimensional neolithic labyrinth, a ceremonial way dedicated to the ancient British Goddess. <br>

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Glastonbury Tor Somerset

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GLASTONBURY<br>Glastonbury Tor

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GLASTONBURY<br>A curious band of etheric colour around the bottom of glastonbury Tor, photographed by a clairvoyant, and identified as a 'Ring of Pass Not'.  The original is in the possession of Dr Brierly

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Glastonbury Tor where King Arthur is said to be buried.<br>

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With renovation work nearly completed on St Michael's Tower at the top of Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, scaffolding is expected to be removed in the next few weeks with the site re-opening to the public in September 2003.

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GLASTONBURY<br>Triple 'Celtic' Spiral on the lower side of Glastonbury Tor - made in recent times

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Glastonbury Abbey and Tor , in 1785

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The Abbot's Barn near Glastonbury. Somerset.

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Glastonbury lake village.

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Glastonbury.  The whole area is said to be laid out to a sacred geometrical plan.  In 1190 the monks of Glastonbury Abbey announced the discovery of the tomb of King Arthur in the centre of the Abbey.  It's all myth, but Glastonbury has long been thought to be the Avalon where legend has it Arthur was taken after his last battle for his wounds to be healed. - ©2004 TopFoto

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Druidic sacrifice, illustration (hand-coloured) by Horace Knowles, from A G Chant, 'The Legend of Glastonbury'

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DRUIDS.  The boy on the Tor of Glastonbury, with the fearful Druid priests. Romantic illustration by Horace Knowles, from a hand-coloured edition of 'The Legend of Glastonbury' by A G Chant, 1948

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A group taking part in the " Harmonic Convergence " perform their sacred dance in the grounds of the ruined 14th century Chapel of St Michael (background, atop the Tor) at Glastonbury<br>The cosmically orientated event - one of several taking place around the world - hoped to project positive , peaceful thoughts to the other " Harmonic Convergers " 1987

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Original site of King Arthur's grave, Glastonbury Abbey, somerset.<br><br>©2006 Fortean / TopFoto

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Somerset  Glastonbury<br>The Abbey from East

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 ARTHURIAN<br> Glastonbury Abbey, one of the places claimed to be the 'burial place' of Arthur.  This claim appears to have been invented, for financial reasons by the monks of the thirteenth century.

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Somerset  Glastonbury<br>The Abbey from South West

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&quotThe ruins of the Glastonbury Abbey date mostly from the 12th century and cover a large area,

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Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.<br><br>©2006 Fortean / TopFoto

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GLASTONBURY<br>The main street in Glastonbury

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GLASTONBURY<br>One of the Old Stations for Prayer, marked by 'Jesus-Maria' on the wall of Glastonbury Abbey

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King Arthur's Grave, Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.<br><br>©2006 Fortean / TopFoto

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Wimble Toot, Babcary, Somerset.  This earth mound forms the breast of the Virgo figure in the Glastonbury Zodiac.<br><br>©2006 Fortean / TopFoto

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Chalice Wall, Glastonbury, Somerset.<br><br>©2006 Fortean / TopFoto

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Joseph of Arimathea, from title page of chapbook THE HOLY DISCIPLE; OR, THE HISTORY OF JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA.  He holds his staff, which grew into the Glastonbury Thorn.  18th century.<br><br>©2006 Fortean / TopFoto

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The Holy Thorn, Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.<br><br>©2006 Fortean / TopFoto

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GLASTONBURY<br>'The Flowering Thorn', which flowers on the old day of Christmas.  Romantic illustration by Horace Knowles, from a hand-coloured edition of 'The Legend of Glastonbury', by A G Chant, 1948

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Katherine Maltwood, who discovered the Glastonbury Zodiac in 1929.<br><br>©2006 Fortean / TopFoto

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GLASTONBURY<br>The Glastonbury Zodiac.  Colour plate 'King Arthur's Round Table of the Zodiac' drawn up by Maltwood in support of her claim that the circle around the village of Butleigh is a cartographic zodiac

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©PHOTONEWS SERVICE LTD:<br>PIC SHOWS: The crowds at Glastonbury festival today on the first day of the festival.<br>PIC BY: STEVE MAISEY

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Two Glastonbury festival goers.

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Glastonbury Free Festival 1971

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Glastonbury Free Festival 1971

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National Pictures. <br><br>The premiere of a movie about Glastonbury Premieres tonight in London's Leicester Square.<br><br>The movie is anticipated to be the closest thing to the event this summer, as Festival organiser Michael Eavis is taking a year off.<br>Glastonbury uses clips from amateur and home movies to tell the story of the event through the eyes of the festival-goers.<br><br>11 April 2006<br><br><br>Original Caption:<br>Lightning and torrential rain has delayed the start of the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, with flooding hitting parts of the site. <br>Pic Piers MacDonald<br><br>24/06/05

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NATIONAL PICTURES.CROWD SURFING DURING REEFS PERFORMANCE THIS EVENING AT GLASTONBURY.PH.GEOFF CADDICK.24.06.00.

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National Pictures. <br><br>The premiere of a movie about Glastonbury premieres tonight in London's Leicester Square.<br><br>The movie is anticipated to be the closest thing to the event this summer, as Festival organiser Michael Eavis is taking a year off.<br>Glastonbury uses clips from amateur and home movies to tell the story of the event through the eyes of the festival-goers.<br>11 April 2006<br> <br>Original Caption:<br>Lightning and torrential rain has delayed the start of the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, with flooding hitting parts of the site. <br>Pic Piers MacDonald<br>24/06/05

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National Pictures. <br><br>The premiere of a movie about Glastonbury premieres tonight in London's Leicester Square.<br><br>The movie is anticipated to be the closest thing to the event this summer, as Festival organiser Michael Eavis is taking a year off.<br>Glastonbury uses clips from amateur and home movies to tell the story of the event through the eyes of the festival-goers.<br><br><br>Original Caption:<br>Lightning and torrential rain has delayed the start of the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, with flooding hitting parts of the site. <br>Pic Piers MacDonald<br>24/06/05

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National Pictures. <br><br>The premiere of a movie about Glastonbury premieres tonight in London's Leicester Square.<br><br>The movie is anticipated to be the closest thing to the event this summer, as Festival organiser Michael Eavis is taking a year off.<br>Glastonbury uses clips from amateur and home movies to tell the story of the event through the eyes of the festival-goers.<br><br><br>Original Caption:<br>Lightning and torrential rain has delayed the start of the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, with flooding hitting parts of the site. <br>Pic Piers MacDonald<br>24/06/05

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National Pictures. <br><br>The premiere of a movie about Glastonbury premieres tonight in London's Leicester Square.<br><br>The movie is anticipated to be the closest thing to the event this summer, as Festival organiser Michael Eavis is taking a year off.<br>Glastonbury uses clips from amateur and home movies to tell the story of the event through the eyes of the festival-goers.<br>11 April 2006<br><br><br>Original Caption:<br>Lightning and torrential rain has delayed the start of the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, with flooding hitting parts of the site. <br>Pic Piers MacDonald<br><br>24/06/05

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Jeni Mental, from Cornwall, tries out one of the She-pee urinals, which will be available for women at this year's Glastonbury Festival. The girly pink-coloured toilets, which will be policed by uniformed concierges, will allow thousands of female revellers at the Pilton, Somerset, site to attend to a quick call of nature without running the gauntlet of the usual unisex portable loos.

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Festival goer at Worthy Farm, Somerset for the start of the Glastonbury festival.

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Festival goer, Emma Harris, 31, from London, puts on her sunglasses, at the Glastonbury Festival 2002 in Pilton, Somerset.   25/06/2003: More than 15,000 people have started setting up camp at this year's Glastonbury Festival, police said today, June 25th 2003. Thousands of music lovers turned up at the site in Pilton, Somerset, in preparation for the music event, which starts on Friday and finishes on Sunday. Organisers Glastonbury Festival Ltd said that around 25,000 will be on site by this evening, and 150,000 will be there by the weekend to see acts such as Radiohead, REM, Manic Street Preachers and Moby.

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NAPA SYNDICATION REF 6284<br>.EARLY MORNING RISERS GLASTONBURY SUNDAY.PH.GEOFF CADDICK.25.06.00.<br>Glastonbury Festival is to be surrounded by an &quotinvincible" ring of steel costing around £1 million after record numbers of fence jumpers, organiser Michael Eavis says.<br>Between 10,000 and 15,000 went over - or under - the 14ft perimeter barrier, swelling the 100,000 legitimate visitors and packing the areas near the most popular stages.<br>Next year Mr Eavis wants to increase the official capacity by 10,000 to finance the new measures.<br>Mr Eavis said: &quotThere are probably more jumpers this year. The fence was our weakest point and we are planning an invincible fence for 2001.<br>&quotThe people who made this fence can see now that it's not effective any longer, although it makes an attempt. We need the invincible fence, which will cost roughly £1 million."<br>The current fencing is in sections held together by nuts and bolts, but these can be pushed over, squeezed through and scaled, or fans can tunnel beneath them.<br>The plan is to have a tough new system which will slot together and be more sturdy.<br>&quotThere will be prongs in the soil so people can't dig under. It will take four weeks to build. At the moment it only takes around 17 days," he added.<br>Mr Eavis, who has hosted the event on his farm at Pilton, Somerset, since 1970, said: &quotTickets were very slow selling this year, the first time since the 1980s that we haven't sold out within a couple of months. I was a bit worried about paying the bills when Radiohead said they couldn't do it, I thought we were in trouble.<br>&quotBut then we got Travis, the Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim, and Moby proved to be a big draw."<br><br>NAPA SYNDICATION REF 6284<br>

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The Glastonbury 2000 festival in Somerset, England. The festival is Britain's premier music event with over 1000,000  peolpe attending. PH.GEOFF CADDICK.25.06.00.<br>Newxxxx<br>Picture downloaded from Pressnet. No archive rights. No third party distribution or resale.

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Goldie Lookin Chain at the Glastonbury Festival 2005 in Pilton, Somerset, England on June 25th 2005. <br>Date: 25.06.2005. <br>Ref: URH022151_0850 <br>COMPULSORY CREDIT: Richard Harding / Starstock / Photoshot

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Two festival-goers at the stone circle at the Glastonbury Festival 2005 in Pilton, Somerset, England on June 25th 2005. <br>Date: 25.06.2005. <br>Ref: URH022151_0835 <br>COMPULSORY CREDIT: Richard Harding / Starstock / Photoshot

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Art and sculpture at the Glastonbury Festival 2005 in Pilton, Somerset, England on June 25th 2005. <br>Date: 25.06.2005. <br>Ref: URH022151_0828 <br>COMPULSORY CREDIT: Richard Harding / Starstock / Photoshot

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Two happy festival-goers eating melon at the Glastonbury Festival 2005 in Pilton, Somerset, England on June 25th 2005. <br>Date: 25.06.2005. <br>Ref: URH022151_0792 <br>COMPULSORY CREDIT: Richard Harding / Starstock / Photoshot

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The Jesus centre at the Glastonbury Festival 2005 in Pilton, Somerset, England on June 25th 2005. <br>Date: 25.06.2005. <br>Ref: URH022151_0781 <br>COMPULSORY CREDIT: Richard Harding / Starstock / Photoshot

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Two festival-goers canoe in the lake formed by torrential downpour at the Glastonbury Festival 2005 in Pilton, Somerset, England on June 24th 2005.<br>Date: 24.06.2005. <br>Ref: URH022151_0121 <br>COMPULSORY CREDIT: Richard Harding / Starstock / Photoshot

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A festival goer takes some shade from the sun at the Glastonbury Festival 2005 at, Pilton in Somerset, England on June 23rd 2005. <br><br>Date: 23.06.2005. <br><br>Ref: URH022151_0046 <br><br><br><br>COMPULSORY CREDIT: Richard Harding / Starstock / Photoshot

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A festival goer at the Glastonbury Festival 2005 at, Pilton in Somerset, England on June 23rd 2005. <br><br>Date: 23.06.2005. <br><br>Ref: URH022151_0035 <br><br><br><br>COMPULSORY CREDIT: Richard Harding / Starstock / Photoshot

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Festival goers enjoy at Worthy Farm, Somerset, Saturday June 28, 2003, for the start of the Glastonbury Festival.

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The crowd during a set by David Gray, on the Pyramid Stage, at the Glastonbury Festival.

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Festival goers enjoy themselves at Worthy Farm, Somerset, for the start of the Glastonbury festival.

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Festival goers enjoy themselves at Worthy Farm, Somerset, for the start of the Glastonbury festival.

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Broadcaster John Peel at Worthy Farm, Somerset, during the Glastonbury festival.

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Festival goers set up camp at the Glastonbury Festival, held on Worthy Farm in Somerset.

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Festival goers arrive at Worthy Farm, Somerset, for the start of the Glastonbury festival.

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NATIONAL PICTURES<br>POLICE (INCLUDING ONE OFFICER IN THE MIDDLE WITH FAKE DREADLOCKS!) IN GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL TODAY.<br><br>27/6/4<br><br>PIC JAMES EMMETT

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A Festival goer gives up on trying to stay clean and sits down in the mud at the rain drenched Glastonbury Festival<br>27th June 1998

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A pair of festival goers with numerous wristband passes at the Glastonbury festival 27th June 1999

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Man with a guitar on his back before the stage at Glastonbury<br>26 June 1998

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 NATIONAL PICTURES<br><br>FRANZ FERDINAND POSING UP IN THE BACKSTAGE AREA AT GLASTONBURY<br><br><br>25/6/4<br><br>PIC JAMES EMMETT

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NAPA SYNDICATION REF 6284<br>.DAVID BOWIE DURING HIS PERFORMANCE AT GLASTONBURY.PH.GEOFF CADDICK.26.06.00<br>.Legendary crooner Burt Bacharach will join David Bowie, the Pet Shop Boys and Travis for the typically eclectic festival, which takes place at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, from 23-25 June.<br>Tickets can be purchased online through Ananova's booking service.<br>In previous years organisers kept the final bill a secret in order that music fans went to Glastonbury for the whole experience rather than just one band.<br>But this year the only headliners being kept as a surprise are thos for the new dance arena, The Glade.<br>The Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx, Death in Vegas and DanceStar 2000 winner Moby will also play, with over 500 acts lines up to appear over the three days.<br>Other acts to appear on the main stage are David Bowie, The Chemical Brothers and country favourite Willie Nelson. Ocean Colour Scene and Happy Mondays have also been confirmed.<br>The second stage features Leftfield, Moby and US metal band Nine Inch Nails, as well as Scottish prog-rockers The Beta Band.<br>Fatboy Slim, Kelis and Artful Dodger will play the dance tent, while Gil Scott-Heron, Reprazent and Morcheeba are lined up for the Jazz World Stage.<br>NAPA SYNDICATION REF 6284

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Michael Eavis (L) organiser of the Glastonbury Festival and Sir Bob Geldof backstage at the Glastonbury Festival 2005 in Pilton, Somerset, England on June 25th 2005. <br>Date: 25.06.2005. <br>Ref: URH022151_1090 <br>COMPULSORY CREDIT: Richard Harding / Starstock / Photoshot

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Supermodel Kate Moss (blonde) enjoys herself at Worthy Farm, Somerset, during the Glastonbury festival.

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NATIONAL PICTURES:26/6/5:TESS DALY AT GLASTONBURY 2005.PH PIERS MACDONALD

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Pete Doherty of Babyshambles performing at the Glastonbury Festival 2005 in Pilton, Somerset, England on June 24th 2005. <br>Date: 24.06.2005. <br>Ref: URH022151_0432 <br>COMPULSORY CREDIT: Richard Harding / Starstock / Photoshot

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©PHOTONEWS SERVICE LTD:<br>PIC SHOWS: SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY PLAYING AT THE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2004.<br>PIC BY: STEVE MAISEY

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NATIONAL PICTURES<br>Glastonbury 99.  Courtney Love on stage with her band 'Hole'. 25th June 1999.

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NATIONAL PICTURES.NEIL TENNENT OF THE PET SHOP BOYS PERFORMS AT GLASTONBURY SATURDAY NIGHT.PH.GEOFF CADDICK.24.06.00.

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Glastonbury 99. REM-Michael Stipe. 25/6/99. Photograph  Peter Macdiarmid

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©PHOTONEWS SERVICE LTD:<br>PIC SHOWS: JOSS STONE PLAYING AT THE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2004.<br>PIC BY: STEVE MAISEY

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NATIONAL PICTURES<br><br>JOSS STONE PERFORMING TODAY AT GLASTONBURY.<br><br><br>27/6/4<br><br>PIC JAMES EMMETT

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Rolf Harris performing on the Pyramid Stage  during final day of Glastonbury Festival in somerset 30 June 2002

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Sir Bob Geldof on stage at the Glastonbury Festival 2005 in Pilton, Somerset, England on June 25th 2005. <br>Date: 25.06.2005. <br>Ref: URH022151_1081 <br>COMPULSORY CREDIT: Richard Harding / Starstock / Photoshot

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National Pictures. Glastonbury Festival 99.'Fatboy Slim'  in the dance tent. 25/6/99.

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