Despite the fact that The Who have been one of the premiere rock and roll bands for the last 50 years, they weren’t always scheduled to perform at Glastonbury Festival. The elite British festival was initially trying to book Prince, but added The Who when Prince “decided not to come this year.”
The lengthy post on The Who’s website mostly talks about the band’s mixed experiences performing at Glastonbury, with guitarist Pete Townshend calling it “the very worst the band had ever played” but the sound and lighting directors “felt it really worked, with one of the most fervent audiences we’ve ever had, and ZILLIONS of them going nuts.”
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The band also claimed that “someone had sabotaged the carefully-tested audio connections for much of our gear,” though they never did figure out who it was. The post jokingly accuses Lionel Richie, Paul Weller and The Dalai Lama, all of whom performed on the same stage earlier in the day.
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The timing does make sense, considering the festival’s lineup was announced in April, but The Who weren’t added until a month later. We’ll never know what Prince at Glastonbury would have been like though…