The man in the flat cap was busily cobbling together some wooden pallets into composting toilets when a BBC reporter with a clipped accent shoved a microphone in his face. “What is your ‘scene’, as you call it?” he asked a shy Michael Eavis.
It was late September, 1970, and the 34-year-old farmer began to tell him about the kind of music he liked and why he had invited some rock bands to play in his field. “I’m just an average sort of fella, I have an overdraft...
this is the quickest way of clearing it,” he said. Neither of the two men in the farmyard that day had any inkling history was being made.
Because Michael’s Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival was to explode over the next half century into the world’s biggest and most famous annual