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The Guardian - UK
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Rich Pelley

‘I see things that really steam up my glasses’: can I survive Glastonbury dressed as Elton John?

Rich Pelley as Elton John in a helicopter
Arriving in style … Rich Pelley as Elton John. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

On Sunday night, Elton John is headlining Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage on the final date of his farewell UK tour. Soon the 76-year-old will be hanging up his piano and going back to being boring old Reginald Kenneth Dwight for good. This the first time Elton has been to Glasters, let alone headlined. “I’m a little intimidated because I haven’t played there, I haven’t been there,” he told BBC London. How come he hasn’t Glastoed before? “It’s the first time I’ve been asked,” he told Scott Mills on Radio 2.

Tomorrow, Elton will be back home resting his giant platform shoes. How would the singer have survived the whole Glastonbury experience? Armed with a backpack full of outrageous outfits, I lived like Elton to find out.

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