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Share your Glastonbury Festival memories

We want you to share your memories of Glastonbury festivals past - Geoff Pugh
We want you to share your memories of Glastonbury festivals past - Geoff Pugh

The largest greenfield festival on the planet, and a British cultural institution. A right of passage for British youths - as much as it is for the not so young. Or, as most of us remember it, a mud-filled, water-logged extravaganza of gigantic proportions (see the floods of 2005 for reference).

Glastonbury has produced amazing memories for the millions who have made the pilgrimage to Somerset since 1970. So, as the 2019 edition of Britain's biggest music and arts festival gets underway this weekend, we want you to share your memories of Glastonbury from years and decades gone by.

As Telegraph Culture put it: “Every Glastonbury veteran will tell you their generation saw the muddiest.” That includes the “famous water slides of 1980, the time Neil Young was scared out of performing in 1997 or the electrical storms that killed the sound completely in 2014”. All in all, making Glasto a badge of honour for any festival-lover.

Were you there for New Order in 1981, taking to a Pyramid stage constructed of repurposed telegraph poles and metal sheeting from the Ministry of Defence? Did you witness first hand David Bowie’s defiant return to Glastonbury in 2000, 30 years after his first appearance?

Tell us what has changed since it started half a century ago, are you a mid-life Glasto enthusiast who loves returning for just one more last time? What has been your stand-out moment, and what has surprised you the most?

Send your memories of Glastonbury Festivals past and present in text or image format to yourstory@telegraph.co.uk for a chance to be featured. We ask that readers do not send us physical items as we cannot guarantee their safe arrival or return.

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