• The first Glastonbury Festival was held on the day after Jimi Hendrix died in September 1970. Organiser and farmer Michael Eavis was inspired to put on the event after he attended a blues festival at the Bath & West Showground. Acts who played the first festival include Marc Bolan, Keith Christmas, Stackridge and Al Stewart. The attendance was 1,500 and it cost £1 to get in, including free milk from the farm.
• Lily Allen attended her first ever Glastonbury Festival when she was just five weeks old.
• 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.
• At Glasto in 2004 more football fans gathered to watch England lose to Portugal in the European Championships than anywhere else in the world.
• In 1994 the main stage burned down just weeks before the festival and a temporary stage had to be created at short notice.
• Glastonbury uses 30 megawatts of electricity over the weekend - about as much as the city of Bath.
• In2005 , an impressive £1,350,000 was raised and paid to charities and good causes, including Greenpeace, Oxfam and WaterAid.
• Glastonbury is the world's biggest open air arts and music festival, covering 900 acres of Somerset farmland.
• In 2002 , the festival's welfare tents handed out 40,000 tubes of sun block.
• On the way to Glastonbury Festival in 2005 The Killers left their guitarist Dave Keuning at a motor service station and he almost missed their set on the Pyramid Stage.