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Adele to Headline Glastonbury

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22 March 2016

By Alex Khalil

It has been announced that Adele will headline the Pyramid Stage at this year’s Glastonbury Festival .

She revealed the news in the O2 arena, where she was in the middle of a six-night residency.

“Who’s going to Glastonbury this year?” she asked. “See you there. I’ll be there. I’ll be headlining on the Saturday this year.” She also added that she’s “had to keep that secret for years.”

The Hello singer will now join bands like Muse and Coldplay, at the top of the class for when the festival takes place in June.

Festival organiser Emily Eavis expressed her excitement to having the singer on board by saying “What a great honor it is to have the wonderful Adele confirmed for this year’s Saturday night headline spot!”

Last year, the singer said on Beats 1 radio that she had been putting off Glastonbury after seeing the size of Kanye West’s crowd.

“I wasn’t anywhere near the stage and it was the biggest crowd I’d ever seen,” she told Zane Lowe. “I froze with fear, I just thought: ‘I don’t know if I can do that.'”

Her latest album, 25, has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide, and is currently number one in the UK, and even went to so far as to beat Black Ops 3 in the entertainment charts at the end of last year.

This year’s Glastonbury will be in Somerset from 22-26th of June.

Jeff Lynne’s ELO have been announced for the Sunday afternoons ‘legends’ lot, which in recent years has been host to Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie and Kenny Rogers.

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