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On This Day in 2022, Iconic UK Festival Returns After Two-Year Hiatus With Impressive, Historic Age Gap Between Headliners

After two unplanned fallow years, Glastonbury proved you can’t keep a good music festival down.

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The long-running Glastonbury Festival was set to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2020, putting together a stellar lineup for the big year. But a little minor setback known as the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent global lockdowns forced Glastonbury to cancel the festival that year.

There was hope for the festival initially, since it was a big milestone year. Paul McCartney, Kendrick Lamar, and Taylor Swift were scheduled to headline in June. But by March 2020, festival organizer Emily Eavis announced the cancellation. In an attempt to placate fans, the festival site, Worthy Farm, filmed several socially-distanced performances. These videos were put together into a film called Live From Worthy Farm, which played on Glastonbury’s........

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