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Casey Cooper-Fiske

Glastonbury: Matty Healy jokes he is the ‘best songwriter of his generation’

The 1975 performing on the Pyramid Stage during the Glastonbury Festival (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Wire)

The 1975’s Matty Healy has claimed to be his generation’s “best songwriter” during his band’s Glastonbury Festival headline set on Friday night.

The Cheshire-formed band, backed with a saxophone, opened with Happiness from 2022’s Being Funny In A Foreign Language, with Healy wearing a black leather jacket, white t-shirt and blue jeans, with a pint of stout in his hand on the Pyramid Stage.

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