Sunday Legend 2016

[Mezhyp1]

1 minute ago, dentalplan said:

Prince was the 80s Moby.

What a discredit to Moby

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 minute ago, Harry49 said:

Spot on.

Shameful really that Ray Davies didn't pull a crowd as big as Dolly and Lionel. Wonder if it had been the Kinks it would have been more popular?

Ray clashed with the England game.

[stuartbert two hats]

8 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

and you said those 70s bands were shit?

 

 

By the way, is Frampton's guitar work on Never Let Me Down/Glass Spider representative of his output? If so, I'm glad he's passed me by. Truly excretable. I'd rather listen to The Bluetones

[CaledonianGonzo]

Moby is the nineties equivalent of Lieutenant Pigeon.

[mr flow]

I'm really looking forward to ELO. Fits what I usually look for in a big act at Glastonbury, as it's someone I wouldn't go and see outside of a festival. 

 

I think the problem is, people are expecting an act the size of Dolly and Lionel, when realistically, we've never usually had acts of that calibre playing the legends slot. So this is back to around where I would expect the legends act to be in terms of size and stature.

[Beach Buggy Fan]

25 minutes ago, Harry49 said:

Blimey never knew Stereophonics etc were this big

 

 From 1972 to 1986, ELO accumulated twenty Top 20 songs on the UK Singles Chart, and fifteen Top 20 songs on the US Billboard Hot 100. The band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits, 20, of any group in US chart history without having a number one single.^[6][7] However, the band did reach #1 on the Radio & Records chart with "Shine a Little Love" in 1979.^[8][9]

ELO collected 19 CRIA, 21 RIAA and 38 BPI awards,^[10][11] and sold over 50 million records worldwide during the group's original 13-year period of active recording and touring.  During 1979 Jeff Lynne also turned down an invitation for ELO to headline the August 1979 Knebworth Festival concerts. That allowed Led Zeppelin the chance to headline instead.

 

 

 

 

 

Also add in Jeff Lynns additional stuff. When they found the lost Beatles Tapes they asked Jeff to produce it. He was a member of the biggest supergroup ever!!!! FACT! The Travelling Willburys, members were, Jeff Lynn, Roy Orberson, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and George Harrison (He also produced their albums).

Basically there is no person more suitable for the LEGEND spot.

[CaledonianGonzo]

The fact that he produced Free As A Bird will have no bearing on why he's playing. It's resting entirely on all the hit singles he had in the 70s.

[dentalplan]

Wonder how Leo Sayer feels about this snub, by the way.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Currently down the pub after his agent broke the news that his mid-afternoon Sunday booking was actually for the Pop Up Motel.

[stuartbert two hats]

9 minutes ago, Beach Buggy Fan said:

Also add in Jeff Lynns additional stuff. When they found the lost Beatles Tapes they asked Jeff to produce it. He was a member of the biggest supergroup ever!!!! FACT! The Travelling Willburys, members were, Jeff Lynn, Roy Orberson, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and George Harrison (He also produced their albums).

Basically there is no person more suitable for the LEGEND spot.

He produced the two worst sounding Beatles songs ever. FACT!  

[incident]

2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Ray clashed with the England game.

And had played the Festival several times before, including on the Acoustic Stage only the year before (which was better, for that matter).

[eFestivals]

According to The Scum, Eavis is also trying to get Barry Gibb this year.

 

[justperfect]

And Chris Evans said it on t'wireless this morning and we already know he's in the circle of trust 

[blue6field]

1 hour ago, eFestivals said:

According to The Scum, Eavis is also trying to get Barry Gibb this year.

 

Where would he fit in?

surley to big for an acoustic headliner?

[eFestivals]

Just now, blue6field said:

Where would he fit in?

surley to big for an acoustic headliner?

as a second sunday legend, according to the article.

However, I read that article first thing this morning, and there's a different body to the article now to how it was. Before it was just some words, but it's suddenly turned into a load of quotes from "a source" ... which makes me d0oubt all of it.

It also says in the sub-head "already been booked", but none of the quotes say anything so solid.

I'm sure it's all complete and utter made-up bollocks. It's probably been put together as a result of some of the Barry Gibb speculation that's happened here.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/6921309/Legend-Barry-Gibb-will-perform-at-Glastonbury.html

[jackarmy]

Well Emily and Glastonbury Festival have already confirmed that Jeff Lynne has the 4th down, Sunday Teatime slot.

I guess it's possible that Barry Gibb would play earlier in the day? Sort of like how Don McLean and Staus Quo have in previous years?

[eFestivals]

29 minutes ago, jackarmy said:

Well Emily and Glastonbury Festival have already confirmed that Jeff Lynne has the 4th down, Sunday Teatime slot.

I guess it's possible that Barry Gibb would play earlier in the day? Sort of like how Don McLean and Staus Quo have in previous years?

Yep, it's possible. As that article mentions they had both Neil Diamond and Leonard Cohen in the same year.

However, that article is still talking bollocks. It claims Gibb is booked in the sub-heading, but then quotes stuff which makes clear he's not booked.

[mr gumby]

There have certainly been a fair few acts in recent years who could be considered 'legends' who've played, but not in that time slot. BB King, Willie Nelson, Don McLean, Robert Plant, Burt Bacharach etc. So there's every chance of another big legendary name somewhere on the lineup. Personally I wouldn't be anywhere near it, but there are plenty of efesters keen to see Barry Gibb, so I'd be pleased for them if it does turn out to be true. 

[The Nal]

On 7/5/2015 at 9:40 AM, slash's hat said:

The Monkees....no idea what they sound like now but that would be a great upbeat set.

Used to love their tv shows in the school hols (feeling my age).

Maybe next year, new album and tour announced. 

[slash's hat]

1 hour ago, The Nal said:

Maybe next year, new album and tour announced. 

Fabulous, especially now the "rules" have been broken about a band doing it - though there's only 2 left. Would be good to see them somewhere in the bill.

[Gnomicide]

Let's hope it's as garbage a story as it sounds. 

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Barry is a music legend and has so many songs that will lift the crowd. Playing the main stage with his disco tunes would send all right minded people fleeing to far flung reaches of the site.

 

[gerardfenton18]

Happier with this than ELO if it's true. Personnally i love a good sunday sing along. 

i'm always that bit more emotional come sunday

[FloorFiller]

ELO and rightBazza in one year? these forums will implode. definitely wouldn't be against seeing him take a mid-Pyramid slot. i have no shame in admitting i'd shed a tear when he plays How Deep Is Your Love

[LeeGalvin]

5 hours ago, eFestivals said:

According to The Scum, Eavis is also trying to get Barry Gibb this year.

 

I know it's The Sun, but eeeeeeeeeeeee I'm excited at this prospect. Please be true!

[Brave Sir Robin]

Plainly the Eavii have seen the error of their ways and booked a solo 'legend', eh @stuartbert two hats?