Dame Shirley Bassey electrifies crowd at Glastonbury
Welsh diva Shirley Bassey, known for her resounding voice and James Bond theme songs, electrified the last-night crowd on Sunday at the world's biggest greenfield music and arts festival.
Dressed in a sequined flamingo pink dress, Bassey thundered out Bond theme "Goldfinger," "Big Spender" and "The Lady is a Tramp" to riotous applause in western England where days of rain had turned the green meadows into a mudbath.
The late reggae legend Bob Marley's sons Damien, Steven and Ziggy paid tribute to their father commemorating the 30th anniversary of classic album "Exodus" and played tracks including "One Love" and "Buffalo Soldier".
Rock godfathers The Who top the bill on the final night of Glastonbury which has attracted a crowd of almost 180,000.
Tractors spread straw and woodchips as paths became harder to negotiate, but music-inspired festival-goers in brightly coloured ponchos and rubber Wellington boots danced, frolicked and prepared for the evening's star-studded finale undaunted.
"It's gone very well in spite of the rain, in spite of the mud," upbeat festival founder Michael Eavis said on Sunday.
"Believe it or not the drains have actually worked ... the show compensates for the weather ... the sun's not everything."
Other big acts on the third and final day of Glastonbury include British music sensations the Kaiser Chiefs, angsty rockers Manic Street Preachers, Californian indie band Cold War Kids, and Arkansas' The Gossip.
More than 1,200 people had been injured by Sunday, mostly with sprains and bruises from slipping in the mud at Eavis's farm in southwest England set up in the 1970s as a musical hippy haven.
Police said one 26-year-old man had died from a suspected drugs overdose and that despite far more people on site than last year there were fewer arrests and these were mostly drug related. Only 31 thefts were reported.
Downpours were forecast for the rest of the festival but organisers said the flooding would have been much worse without the new 100,000 pound ($199,000) drainage system and other precautions installed by 71-year-old Eavis.
"I was completely unprepared for the Glastonbury experience," said Norwegian singer Lawra Somby, with the group Adjagas, who had to walk barefoot through the mud because he had the wrong shoes before he togged up with boots and raincoat.
Many people were fretting about how they would exit the rural muddy site on Monday.
http://commanderbond...n...&item=41667 - Yahoo Music
