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A poignant step along the yellow brick road

This year’s Glastonbury festival site seemed to be as awash with wild speculation as ever. Sunday’s headliner Elton John would supposedly be performing with special guest Britney Spears. Others were convinced he would bring on Harry Styles. Most lurid of all, there were those who insisted that the show was going to be enlivened by the appearance of a hologram of the late George Michael.

Nevertheless, what was supposed to be the weekend’s biggest surprise turned out to be its worst-kept

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