2. Its the biggest open air arts and music festival in the world covering 900 acres of Somerset farmland
3. The first Glastonbury Festival was held on the day afterJimiHendrix died in September 1970.
4. The attendance was 1,500 and it cost £1 to get in, including free milk from the farm
5. 1978 became known as the “impromptu” Festival The stage was powered by an electric meter in a caravan with the cable running to the stage Attendance: 500
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7. 1982 had the highest rainfall for a single day in 45 years
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9. In 1994 the main stage burned down just weeks before the festival
10. In 2005, an impressive £1,350,000 was raised and paid to charities and good causes, including Greenpeace, Oxfam and WaterAid
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12. In 2004 more football fans gathered to watch England lose to Portugal in the European Championships than anywhere else in the world
13. 2005 Glastonbury had two months worth of rain in several hours! A once in a hundred year occurrence!
14. Last year at Glastonbury 3 million gallons of water were drunk, 2,500 toilets were used, and 800,000 million gallons of human waste were collected
