Packed in my Glasto years mid 80s to 1993. Only paid once 'cos the wall was either 2 foot high or missing. Liked the anarchy of the 80s ones, got a little too organised later (it needed to as it became sooooo big). Highlights = The Cure, Tom Jones, Ian McNabb, Cud and Velvet Underground. Downside = People taking acid for the first time surrounded by 25,000 strangers, you just try to calm them down and put their clothes back on.
60...Jane Wiedlin (rhythm guitarist, co vocalist and co songwriter of The Go-Go's) was born in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin in 1958 She wrote this off of their first album Beauty and the Beat..
Joe Cocker, English rock vocalist (With a Little Help from My Friends), born in Sheffield in 1944, (d. 2014)...
72...Cher [Cherilyn Sarkisian], American singer and actress (I Got You Babe, Jack Lalane, Mask), born in El Centro, California in 1946...
63...Jerry Dammers ( founder,keyboardist and songwriter for The Specials) was born in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, South India in 1955...
59...Morrissey (frontman, songwriter of The Smiths) was born Steven Patrick Morrissey in Davyhulme, Lancashire in 1959... I played this for the first time in ages on Saturday..
68...Bernie Taupin, British singer and lyricist (writes with Elton John), born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire in 1950...
Richard Wagner, German composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman), born in Leipzig, Saxony in 1813 (d. 1883)... Gives me an excuse to post my favourite ever film scene and possibly the greatest in cinematic history...
Dr. Robert Moog, engineer and inventor of the Moog synthesizer, is born in New York City in 1934...(d) 2005... Here is one of the best and well known exponents of the instrument...