Stevie Wonder brought the 40th anniversary of the Glastonbury festival to a close last night with an acclaimed performance which included a short duet with the festival’s organiser Michael Eavis on the track ‘Happy Birthday‘.
The Motown legend took to the Pyramid Stage on Sunday night in front of a massive crowd of around 100,000, and played a career-spanning set full of hits from his un-rivalled back catalogue. 1972 classic ‘Superstition‘ looked like being the highlight before the rendition of ‘Happy Birthday‘ with Eavis brought the biggest cheer of the night from the huge audience.
Earlier, The Kinks legend Ray Davies played a vintage set for the traditional Sunday afternoon spot which included Kinks favourites such as ‘Days‘, ‘Sunny Afternoon‘ and ‘Waterloo Sunset‘, while Everything Everything commanded one of the biggest crowds of the weekend in the John Peel Tent for their debut appearance at the festival.
On Saturday, rock heavyweights Muse didn’t disappoint as they delivered yet another spectacular live show full of crowd favourites such as ‘Time Is Running Out‘, ‘Feeling Good‘ and ‘Plug In Baby‘. The trio were also joined during the encore by U2 guitarist The Edge for a performance of the Irish band’s 1987 hit ‘Where The Streets Have No Name‘.
Later, The Edge became the first to set rumours of next year’s headliners flying when he insisted U2 would like to return to the festival in the near future to perform after being forced to withdraw this year due to an injury to frontman Bono.