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Springsteen in festival surprise Glastonbury bows down to The Boss
(about 6 hours later)
Bruce Springsteen has made a surprise appearance with an up-and-coming group on the new bands stage at the Glastonbury Festival. Bruce Springsteen has become The Boss of Glastonbury after a two-and-a-half hour crowd-pleasing headline set.
The Boss joined The Gaslight Anthem, who hail from his native New Jersey, for one song in the John Peel Tent. Hits like Dancing in the Dark, Glory Days and Born To Run got fans moving as the star made his first UK festival appearance at the Somerset event.
Springsteen is headlining the main stage with his E Street Band in their first full UK festival slot. Springsteen got close to his British fans with repeated runs from the stage to sing right next to the front row.
Springsteen revealed he took advice from Coldplay star Chris Martin before his set at the Somerset event. "He was down with his fans and cared that he was here," said 28-year-old Siobhan Farmer, who was in the crowd.
"He said it was very special and it's very close to the English heart," he told the BBC's Steve Lamacq. "I wasn't a fan before but he certainly puts energy into it."
"I'd read quite a lot about it before. Every year when you get the British music magazines it's always a big feature so I know it's a special gig." Her friend Anna Burgess, 23, added: "I knew nothing of Bruce but it was the best gig of the festival so far. His passion made it. It was brilliant."
Fan Matt Kershaw, 25, from London, said: "He's one of those acts that you've got to see at some point in your life. Springsteen jumped down from the stage during numerous songs
"Others are just bands, but he's a bit bigger." Another fan, Amil Ahir, 43, from Devon, said he last saw Springsteen at Wembley Stadium about 15 years ago.
Phoebe Cullingworth, 19, from Oxford, said: "I like his music and I feel like it would be a crime if I didn't go and see him - he's someone huge who I've missed." "He definitely is The Boss and tonight he proved that again, in terms of entertainment, real rock and a fantastic blend of different musical types," he said.
Another rock veteran, Neil Young, closed the first night of the festival with a storming set on Friday. "Bruce rocked Glastonbury tonight."
Revellers enjoyed warm, sunny weather on Saturday after recent downpours, with Dizzee Rascal, Kasabian and Paolo Nutini also entertaining crowds. Tom Winter from Stoke-on-Trent commented: "Even from miles back, I thought it was brilliant. There was so much energy coming through."
More than 175,000 revellers are at the event, which has been run on Michael Eavis' dairy farm for for 39 years. Springsteen started the night with an acoustic cover of Coma Girl by late Clash frontman Joe Strummer.
Strummer wrote the song about Glastonbury, and his love of the festival helped convince Springsteen to play.
The song begins with the line: "I was crawling through a festival way out west," before continuing: "And the rain came in from the wide blue yonder, through all the stages I wandered."
"What happened to all the rain?" Springsteen asked the crowd as the show got under way. "I wore my boots."
In black T-shirt and blue jeans, the 59-year-old star was not short of the indefatigable passion and down-to-earth devotion that have always defined his on-stage persona.
The 25-song stint stretched into all corners of his blood, sweat and tear-stained catalogue.
The Saturday headline show is traditionally the biggest slot of the weekend
But it was not a greatest hits show. He never plays Born in the USA, perhaps his biggest anthem, live these days, although the Glastonbury crowd tried their best to persuade him by chanting its chorus.
During the title track from his newest album Working On A Dream, the singer delivered a lengthy message with evangelical zeal.
"We are so glad to be in the beautiful rain-free Glastonbury tonight," he told the crowd.
"I heard about it, I heard about it, I heard about it - now I'm seeing it.
"The mighty E Street Band has come thousands of miles tonight to fulfil a solemn vow to rock the house."
On No Surrender, from the Born in the USA album, Springsteen was joined by Brian Fallon, singer with up-and-coming band The Gaslight Anthem and a fellow New Jersey native.
Earlier, The Boss had made a surprise appearance on one song with The Gaslight Anthem during their slot on the John Peel Stage, the traditional home of new bands at the festival.
In headlining the main Pyramid Stage, Springsteen followed another redoubtable rock legend, Neil Young, who topped the bill on Friday.
Other acts to draw crowds on Saturday included rapper Dizzee Rascal, comedy rockers Spinal Tap, indie stars Kasabian and reggae-folk singer Paolo Nutini.
Revellers enjoyed warm, sunny weather after downpours on Thursday and Friday.
More than 175,000 people are at the event, which has been run on Michael Eavis' dairy farm for for 39 years.