Glastonbury clean-up begins following Kendrick Lamar’s powerful closing set

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Highlights from the festival’s special 50th year include history-making headline sets from Paul McCartney and Billie Eilish as well as Lamar’s dramatic demonstration for female rights

Clean up begins in front of the pyramid stage at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset in 2019 Image: Aaron Chown/PA Clean up begins in front of the pyramid stage at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset in 2019 Image: Aaron Chown/PA THE CLEAN-UP operation of Glastonbury Festival will now begin following a dramatic closing headline set by Kendrick Lamar.

Lamar’s performance, which ended with new song Savior, concluded as fake blood poured down his face from a crown of thorns. The plea for female rights appeared in protest against the US Supreme Court’s recent decision to end the country’s constitutional right to abortion.Meanwhile, Diana Ross reeled off hit after hit when she took to the stage for the Sunday legends slot.

As he took to the Pyramid Stage, the former Beatle became the festival’s oldest solo headliner, a week after he celebrated his 80th birthday. The electrifying show was further amplified as he introduced Grohl to the stage to sing I Saw Her Standing There and Band On The Run, marking Grohl’s first public performance since the death of his Foo Fighters bandmate, drummer Taylor Hawkins.Sir @PaulMcCartney's headlining set is now on @BBCiPlayer.— BBC Radio 2 June 26, 2022

The festival featured countless other memorable moments including Greta Thunberg delivering a passionate speech from the Pyramid Stage calling on society to take on its “historic responsibility to set things right” with the global climate crisis.

 

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Surely there's pictures of grata cleaning up afterwards? Oh no she's jetted back home first class.

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