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Lyell Tweed

Sir Elton John brings on indie rock legend at Glastonbury - but fans have one question about his outfit

Sir Elton John's performance at Glastonbury Festival always promised to be full of hits and full of surprises. But its not just Sir Elton providing the surprises.

Rumours have been circling for days about who Sir Elton's guests at his Glastonbury performance could be, with names such as pop legends Britney Spears and Dua Lipa named. The first guests brought on were Jacob Lusk of Gabriels and The London Community Gospel Choir. After this Stephen Sanchez took to the stage to perform his own song Until I Found You.

But the first real star performer came in The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers. The Mr Brightside singer was welcomed with rapturous cheers and applause to the stage before performing Tiny Dancer.

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But many took straight to Twitter after noticing something about his red suit with a blue shirt. @soupdougiedoug pointed out: "Did Brandon Flowers come straight from his shift at Butlins."

@al3xhughes also noticed the holiday park similarity, saying: "Nice of Brandon Flowers to take a night off from his job at Butlins to perform with Elton John." @elliotleaver92 said: "Brandon Flowers looked like his shift at Butlins had finished about half an hour before he went on stage."

@OhFFFKaty added: "I love Brandon Flowers, but he wouldn't look out of place at Butlins in Skegness ffs."

The When You Were Young singer came onto the stage after performances of Your Song and Candle In The Wind, with Sir Elton telling the crowd: "My next guest I first met in 2005 when I first started playing Las Vegas, and he came to my hotel suite to play me his band’s first album Hot Fuss – we’ve been friends ever since."

Welcoming Brandon Flowers to the stage, he said The Killers frontman was “the first person I thought of” to be a guest during his set. He then immediately welcomed Rina Sawayama to the stage as “an extraordinary talent and amazing recording artist” before performing Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.

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