‘I couldn’t pay Marc Bolan’: Michael Eavis on Glasto’s history

Speaking at IFF, the Glastonbury Festival founder reflected on the first Glasto, the arrival of the Stonehenge crowd, the Benn era – and the year he thought he'd go bust

Feature By | 28 September 2017

Banks and Eavis on the IFF stage

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