Saturday Part 1 Glastonbury

You. It is nourishing.

What does it do to the soul. It is a connection.

It warms the cockles. Glastonbury does something to the

musical soul for sure. Maybe at 5am, you are talking about

things you would not normally. It makes you better.

It brings out my inner fox! Hello from Glastonbury Festival! We

are here for the second day of our coverage. The music in full swing.

We are up at the park. Our Jaguar Australia Indy dance types are up on

the stage. It is a little windy. I think this is one of the best days

of the weekend. Friday, everybody is keen. Sunday you are get getting a

bit, we are going to have to go home soon but Saturday afternoon,

blissful. And the calm before the storm, the

big Saturday night headliner which this year is Adele on the Pyramid

Stage. Loads of stuff everywhere but everyone talking about Adele.

And blissed out psyche Delia... Yes, we have some of that warming up for

Adele. What could be better. Yes, and tonight, Adele, hello! Leer

is the story so far on day two of Glastonbury.

-- Here is the story so far. # I've got to have a shot

# You're got to make it hot # Give me all your loving

# All your hugs and kisses too # Give me all your loving

# All your hugs and kisses too # Give me all your loving all your

hugs and kisses too... It really has been quite a 24 hours, hasn't it,

Mark? Extraordinary scenes. By day two you feel you have been

here a week-and-a-half. These days, it takes me an hour, I

forget who I am, what day it is, what is going on. When you are doing

radio coverage earlier, like I works I am like, what day is it? This

morning, I heard the band reare going to hear the band next take to

the Pyramid stage live. I think you were on stage with them? I was.

Lovely to see Squeeze. And later on a set here from Age of Luna. Looking

fresh. So the cleanest people on the site. Age of Lunar and Squeeze.

Dapper. Box fresh! Indeed so. So three or

four songs from Squeeze. Here they are on the Pyramid stage from

earlier on today. # I never thought it would happen #

With me and the girl from Clapham # Out on the windy common # That

night I ain't forgotten # When she dealt out the rations #

With some or other passions # I said "you are a lady" #

"Perhaps" she said. "I may be" # # We moved

in to a basement # With thoughts of our engagement #

We stayed in by the telly # Although the room was smelly.

# We spent our time just kissing # The weather brass and bitter

# I put away a tenner # You've left my ring by the soap,

# Now is that love? # You cleaned me out

you could say broke, # # You won't get

dressed you walk about, # A teasing glance

has pushed me out, # The tougher tougher

tougher it gets # The more my lips frequent

# Now that is love. # Beat me up with your letters,

your walk out notes, # Funny how you still find me

right here at home. # You've called my

bluff I'm not so hot, # My assets froze while

yours have dropped, # It's the cupid

cupid cupid disguise # That more or less survived

# Now that is love. # Beat me up with your letters,

your walk out notes, # Funny how you still find me

right here at home. # Now is that love,

that's making you think. # You've made my bed,

the finger points Plays plays.

Cheer, loves! # His soul had been replenished .#

# He slowly fell to pieces and was only too aware

# All of the people. # Family and friends

# In this congress Gregation # Open your heart

# To this # Standing in the picture

with his family all around # She had offered amnesty

for a multitude of sins # Through the stained glass

window her love shone down on him. # Open your hands

# Where once was a steeple # There lived within

# All other people # Family and friends

# In this congregation # Open your heart

# To this celebration # Open your heart...

# To all of the people... # Family and friends

# Open your heart. Thank you, it's been a long time

since we could say this but we have a newish album out and this is the

title track from it, From The Cradle To The Grave.

# They say time will not stand still

# But when I look outside the window

Squeeze. In case you were wondering and thought, is that John and --

John Lydon, the drummer looks a bit like him. We are moving around to

bring you the best of the sunshine. If you are missing anything, there

is an act you want to see, you can check out the live stream on the

website. We are streaming all six main stages from midday every day

and you should not theoretically miss anything. We are now going to

find out a little bit about the culture that gave rise to the

festival. It did not just grow out off the ground, it comes from the

culture of the place, six miles that way, Glastonbury town itself. Today,

you mention Glastonbury and you think of the world-famous music

festival but Glastonbury Festival takes its name from Glastonbury

town, seven miles down the road from Worthy Farm. This is no ordinary

Somerset town. For thousands of years it has been a magnet

innovators, rebels, and the history of the places the stuff of legend, a

weird and wonderful town of nonconformity and creativity without

which they would be no festival we know it. My pilgrimage to

Glastonbury starts with its newly elected mayor. John, hello. We are

in Glastonbury town, why do people come here today? First impressions,

it is a market town but you look at the shops, it is witchcraft shop,

man, myth and magic. There is something unusual. Like walking into

the Wicker Man. To really understand Glastonbury, you have to understand

the town's origins. The local tour guide gave me a whistle-stop tour.

This is the cloistered gardens. Why have so many been drawn to

Glastonbury? It goes back over 2000 years, Druids would meet for the

solstice and equinox. Around the time Joseph came with Mary Magdalene

and built the first church. Then we have stories of King Arthur being

buried here. And the dissolution of the Abbey, which destroyed the site.

And then a resurgence in the Victorian age, right to the 70s when

the festival was started. A little town with a big story. There you

have it, Glastonbury Festival is the latest chapter in this town's big

story. But the festival ethos is not just a product of 1970s hippies. In

1914 a composer establish the original festival in the assembly

rooms. His Glastonbury Festival featured performance and dance and

music and literature, attracting people such as Edward Elgar and

George Bernard Shaw. What kind of man was he? He was quite a rebel, a

nonconformist, unconventional in a lot of ways. Some people found it

quite upsetting their work Bohemians wearing corduroy trousers. And

knickerbockers. In those days, Edwardian time, that was frowned

upon. The myths and history of Glastonbury inspired many of his

works and live on in the assembly rooms today and people like Sarah

Moody, the town's very own bard. Up we go, up the high street. The

bakery. Lovely. I am the 11th bard of Glastonbury. One night I hoped a

dream that there were many stories buried deep in Glastonbury Tor. It

was my job to get these stories out and retell them. How does

Glastonbury inspire you? The culture and heritage is here. It is amazing.

An absolute jewel for a storyteller to live here. The musical legacy

continues in Glastonbury and here is a local who knows something about

that. The lay lines and history and legends of King Arthur, it was

thrown into the Glastonbury ideas. It is part of festival culture.

Throughout the centuries, Glastonbury has inspired many

people, like Rutland, Sarah Mooney and Michael Eavis. It is easy to see

why the festivals took their name from a town as magical as this. Do

you think a festival might Glastonbury can only come from an

area like Glastonbury? It is the only place. It is very

antiestablishment, the setup, nowhere else in the country would I

have got away with it, seriously! James on the magical qualities of

Glastonbury. The first time I came here working for the radio I went up

Glastonbury Tor with the archdruid, which was a magical afternoon, and

you had a magical afternoon yesterday. I was in the healing

fields. The spirit captured by the Bohemians. Sometimes challenging. We

were there yesterday afternoon on the radio with a lady who has been

running back since the 80s, the place people go to recharge, get

their crystals done. Part of the festival, absolutely. We will have

more music. He has been here a few times that the first time on the

Pyramid Stage, from Somerset to Senegal and back to Somerset. Baaba

Maal. Thank you! Thank you very much.

How are you feeling today? The sun is out! So, Che, is from London,

Kenya, Nigeria... Icon of Senegalese music, Baaba

Maal. He runs his own music festival at

home in Senegal every year. How cool was the guitarist.

Channelling his own Jimi Hendrix. A lot of flavour there. The baby in

the ear protectors. The bloke lying out in the mud enjoying himself.

All of it. And so great to see so much great African music. It's a big

part of the programme. One who have just started, it is on the West

Holts Stage. Lots more on both of those acts on

BBC Four tonight. Over on the Acoustic Stage later on, amidst

Cyndi Lauper is a former established poet, and here, given the events of

recent days, is Raffle McTell. # What is it about you

# Makes fee meal this way # When I'm leaving you

# When I'm coming home # When I'm lost for words to say

# And I know your fast and faded # And the travels you've been

through # But it's more about what happens

now # And what we're coming to

# And the echo from the green hills # Runs through the city streets

# And the sun when it shines on England

# Oh, it lifts a heart in me # What is it about you

# That took men into war # A rows and rows of crosses, who

remembers, why, what for # In corns of these foreign fields

# The dust in them concealed # Out of sight but not out of mind

# Don't you know that England feels # And the echo from the green hills

# Runs through our city streets # And the rain when it falls on

England # Oh, it washes pain from me

# England # Oh, England

# England # Oh,

England # Only the sound the battle hymn

# Or a song for Vic # It's just a way to try to say what

England means for me # And our accents

# And our colours change # From the city to the farmland

# From the moorland # To the mountain

# From the river # To the sea

# And the echo from the green hills # Runs through our city streets

# And the wind that blows through England

# Breathes its life in you and me # From the rolling road to the

winding lane # From the field to the factory

# From the summer's haze # To the winter's glaze and the

colours in between # It's a stillness in the evening

# It's a heartbeat I am feeling # From Cornwall to Northumberland

# From the Pennines to the sea # And the echos from the green hills

# Runs through our city streets # And the wind when it blows from

England # Breathes its life in you and me

# England # Oh, England

# England, oh, England

England. APPLAUSE

How are you? Well done for battling the noise

from the Park stage. The rhythm section did not quite agree! It has

been an interesting couple of days, how did you feel about that song

when you wrote it and how about it today? When I wrote the song, I felt

we needed one that brought us together, it did not matter the

religion, colour, where you come from, anything else, I thought we

needed a song that was not warmongering. And probably it is as

relevant now, maybe even more so, how things have changed. What about

being at the festival, is it right it is your first time here, but that

is up for debate? I met Michael Eavis some years ago and he said I

was there, and you are not supposed to remember, but I am not sure, I

might have been. It was not as big as this. It was wet, I remember

that. But you brought some songs. Ralph is on the Acoustic Stage

later. Now we can sample some more live

music on the John Peel stage. We have Alessia Cara.

# She just wants to be beautiful. # She craves attention, she craves

it. # She prays to be sculpted by the

sculptor. # Light that is shining. She tries

to cover out the pain. # Because cover girls don't cry.

# There is a hope waiting for you in the dark.

# Beautiful just the way you are. You don't have to change a finger.

The world can change its heart. # With scars, where beautiful.

# You don't have to change a thing. Your beautiful, with scars.

We are beautiful. # Starving, cover girls the dumping.

She says, beauty is pain and there is beauty in everything, what is a

little bit of hunger? # She fades away and she doesn't see

how perfect, she does not understand, beauty goes deeper than

the surface. # To every girl that is hurting,

hope you see a little bit clearer. A light that shines within.

# There is hope waiting for you in the dark.

# You are beautiful just the way you are. You don't have to change a

thing. The world can change its heart.

With scars, we are beautiful. # You don't have to to change a

thing. # With scars, we are beautiful.

# No better life than the life we are living.

# You are beautiful. You are beautiful.

# There is a hope waiting for you in the dark.

# You should know you are beautiful just the way you are.

# You don't have to change a thing, the world can change its heart.

# With scars, we are beautiful. Oh, oh.

# You don't have to change a thing. # With scars, we are beautiful.

APPLAUSE. Thank U.

# Truly, I ain't got no business here

# But really I would rather be at home all by myself

# Not in this room with people who don't even care about my wellbeing

# I don't dance, don't ask, I don't need a boyfriend

# So you can go back, please enjoy your party

# Under clouds of marijuana with this boy who's hollerin'

# Oh with this music I don't listen to

# So tell my friends that I'll be over here

# Oh oh oh here Oh oh oh here

# Oh oh oh I ask myself what am I doing here

# Oh oh oh here Oh oh oh here

# And I can't wait till we can break up out of here

# Excuse me if I seem a little unimpressed with this

# An antisocial pessimist, but usually I don't mess with this

# And your intentions aren't to bother me

# But honestly I'd rather be somewhere with my people

# We can kick it and just listen to some music with a message

# How we plan to take over the planet

# I hope you'll understand that I'll be here

# With the girl who's always gossiping about her friends

# Right next to the boy who's throwing up

# Cause he can't take what's in his cup no more

# Oh oh oh here Oh oh oh here

# Oh oh oh I ask myself what am I doing here?

# Oh oh oh here Oh oh oh here

# And I can't wait till we can break up out of here

# Hours later, congregatin' next to the refrigerator

# Some girl's talking about a hater, she ain't got none

# So holler at me, I'll be in the car when you're done

# Don't want what you're offerin' and I'm done talking

# So tell my people when they ready that I'm ready

# Yo I'll be over here my beanie low

# Oh oh oh here Oh oh oh here

# Oh oh oh I ask myself what am I doing here

# Oh oh oh here Oh oh oh here

# I can't wait till we can break up out of here

Alessia Cara, you might have caught her recently on radio one's big

weekend. A Canadian singer with a big voice and a big future. Nothing

that. We are going out and about, I think

to the theatre or the circus fields. You lost family over there. My kids,

I brought them for the first time this year they basically will not

come back to me, I tell them I have an hour off and they do not want to

hang out with money, they say they are busy. Before you get to sit on

this seat you have to earn your spurs coming out in to the fielder

Matt jobs falls to Clara. We are in the circus fields. Weird

and wonderful things happen in Glastonbury. We have the big top

behind me. We have been checking it out. Right now I will do something I

have always wanted to do. I will see you on the other side.

The circus big top ring is a wonderful amount of creativity,

culture and diversity. I am jade, the stage manager of the circus big

top. It is back-to-back circus, 16 hours a day with trapeze, flying

trapeze, acrobatics, you name it, we have got it. We are a duo and work

together performing tricks in the air and instead of a winch, I have a

lovely human called Lyndal. A lot of what Blaze stars, she is spinning

very fast and does not have a lot of awareness of where you actually are!

The trick is not to try to focus on one, because that is when you get

sick. There is a history of circus performance at Glastonbury. People

put on an extra bit of effort to come here. I am from Colombia. My

name is Tony from France. Their skills in duo straps is

phenomenal, making everybody else go weak at the knees when you watch

them. People use different qualities. It depends on your body,

conditions and energy you have. We explore something in the air. It

comes naturally. We are performing one show a day at Glastonbury. We

have skating. Silks and juggling and hula hoop and magic tricks. This is

definitely the best place. Everybody is sitting around and it is like

being in a real circus. It is exciting. When you come on it is

nerve-racking but when you get into it it is really fun.

I am Nadia, from Kent. At Glastonbury I will be performing

break dance. This is a giant metal wheel you spin

inside, two metres in diameter, doing spinning that is at right, and

less upright! It is score, contemporary,

beautiful, but it also has a slight edge. The element of surprise. If

you bring a show to Glastonbury, you will be doing your make up in a hut

and living in a caravan. We built the tent. We build the kitchen and

cook and clean the site, we work together to make the show happen.

Everybody pitches in and does what they can and it is wonderful to come

back every year, it is like a big family. We feel energy here. That

something is happening to you, it is not just coming to perform, it is

something else. Last year I was making headdresses

out of flowers but this year I am getting on a trapeze. And while I do

that you enjoy a performance from earlier this

Lady Leshurr, well, she is very game.

I had to say, Clara with, circus skills and that Nadia with the hope,

is who my five-year-old dumped me for. She is a better woman than me.

I acknowledge that. Now, more live music. One of the

best live bands out there at the moment, a fantastic talent.

It is Wolf Alice. # She needs a lover to escape her

father and mother # She hopes for some other way out

of the hole # She's over-achieving,

chasing her dreams and # Coming down slowly,

Yeah, it's out of control # Scrap the blues

if the blues don't work # Flash your teeth

though the inside hurts # Scrap the blues

if the blues don't work # Doesn't make you feel better

Just makes others feel worse # All in the books

and all in her blood and # Nowhere to run

cos it's out of control # You wait for something

to undo these feelings # Waiting and waiting

but it's out of control # Scrap the blues

if the blues don't work # Flash your teeth

though the inside hurts # Scrap the blues

if the blues don't work # Doesn't make you feel better

Just makes others feel worse We have a couple more for you, then

we are going to come out and watch some bands.

Thank you so much for coming to see us. I didn't think anybody would be

here to watch us. This song is called Blush.

# It hurts to think that I get stuck on you

# Oh, help me now # I am happy

now # So walk on, face what you got to

do now # Got two hands

# But don't take too long # But I'm happy now

# Are you happy # Turn me

down like I knew I should # Punch drunk, dumb struck,

pot luck happy happy # Don't chicken out,

it's all good # You're allowed to be what you

could # Punch drunk, dumb struck,

pot luck happy happy # Turn me

down like I knew I should # Don't chicken out,

it's all good # You're allowed to be what you

could # Curse the things that

made me sad for so long # Yeah it hurts to think

that they can still go on # Glastonbury, thank you so much for

this experience, you have no idea. Who wants to dance?!

# Tired of waiting for the bus to nowhere

# I don't tell lies no more, you know

# I don't know what I'm looking for, you know

# I have a tricky love affair, you know

# But it knows I'll never leave, you know

# I hate to see it despair Oh, don't you do it

# When it's hard to give a hard to give a...

# It's not the boy giving the funny feels

# It's not the P to pay for the wheel

# And change, it feels like fear It's all you know

Thank you so much. Say "cheese", Glastonbury! Thanks

again. There you go, that was Wolf Alice

from earlier on. Slightly changeable.

It is only spitting. Nothing to it. I think it will pass in a mere

moment. But look who is here, Trevor Nelson. How are you?! Look at you

two. I'm the Virgin here. You can talk, the Glastonbury

Virgin. I mean you in a welly is making my day. Are these especially

bought? I must be honest. I have spent my life watching you present

this from the comfort of my home, now I am here. I can't believe it.

Your first time here? My first time. What do you make of it? Muddy. But,

number one, you have to have had experienced it to understand. I

walked the whole site. It took five hours. Getting here has been hard

but when you get to a stage, you are like, what the... Who thought of

this?! You have seen the flame throwing spider? Yes.

Shangri-la? Yes. The Pyramid Stage, obviously. The other stage. The

tributes to Bowie, Lemi. Yes. There is a lot to take in. No way to

do the site, it is impossible. You need a guide to help you with what

is going on. But a once in a lifetime for me.

You are doing Radio 2? Yes, I am indeed. 9.00pm until midnight.

Playing on the main set. But what a great opportunity. From here, you

have the best spot in the site. It is great. We will have live music

from Age of Lunar. They are brand new. The first time on the telly? An

amazing gig, I tell you, they are the talk of the town. They are very

young, British. Go back to Fugees with others and put them in a

melting pot, they are doing something no other young kids are

doing. Can't wait to see them perform live, eauer.

Fantastic. We like that. More of it. Indeed so.

They are sheltered under there. They are under the lip of our

Australianing. So we have been here too.

We are polite to the guests. We have to share a BBCle Pound

Shopper umbrella. This is what it has come to.

This is Age Of Lunar. # That is why I love this feeling. I

control my emotions. # Tell me about your sweetness.

# A picture of me and you. # The youth and the beauty of a

woman. # Baby I can see you.

# You have got that essence, baby. # Recollections.

# Memory, sour- sweet. So I dream of sweetness.

# I don't know what you have been thinking but yes I know myself.

# You adore me. # There is something about your

sweetness. # You are just something that I need

since. # Nobody can do...

# My prize possession, I give you all my heaven.

# This is more than anything we could have expected.

# I was cool on my Jack Jones. # I cherish every moment, every

single hour and second. # You have got that essence, baby.

# Recollections from a distance. # Memory, sour- sweet.

# So I dream of sleep. # Down here where I'm from, we talk

slow to the dance flows. # That you, you have got that fire.

# And you, you get me higher. # You got that essence, baby.

# Recollections from the distance. # Memories, sour sweet. Sweetness.

# So I dream of sleep, so I dream of sleep.

# Strawberry lips so sweet. # They complemented your kiss. I

will not lie, when we tongue tie, I get butterflies.

APPLAUSE. Age of Luna, that was fantastic.

Thanks. Have you played already? How did it go? Amazing. The best show of

our lives so far. There were 1000 people there. Would you say it is

the best TV appearance of your lives? Yes! First of many.

Great to see you. Excellent hair. I am going to adopt one of those next

year! Good luck with that! Thanks. Great

to see you and enjoy your Glastonbury. We will have more music

from earlier on and this is a Band of Skulls.

# I want to see you win the morning. I want to see you when the breaking

day is done. # You've got to go, you've got to

go, it's all rights. # But I want to see you in the

flight... # And when I get the same reaction I

know this time it's going to give some satisfaction.

# You've got to go. It's all right. # But I want to see you, see you in

the flight of # I want to see you. I want to see

you when the breaking day is dawning.

# You've got to go, it's all right. I wanna see you in the

morning # You can speak to me.

# Doing all I can to survive. # Don't ask for sympathy, begged to

differ. # And as the symmetry, I'm a

regular. # I'm your favourite enemy, I'm the

leader of the pack. # I've got your heart, got your

soul. # It's a killer, killer, killer.

# Get out of the way if you can't stand the flak.

# Me and my army, we're on the maximum attack.

# If this was fantasy, I would condone it.

# But he moves so thoughtlessly, I would atone for it.

# From under the bleachers, to the windmills of my mind.

# Seems you protest too much as of lately.

# With all those straws you touch and so strictly.

# I'm going to beseech you, you were just a matter of time.

# I'm your favourite anime. # IMB leader of the pack.

# I got your heart, got your soul, got your back.

# I'm your favourite anime, I'm the leader of the pack.

# Of got your heart, got your soul, got your back.

# It's a killer, killer, killer. # Get out of the way, if you can't

stand the flak. # Me and my Army, we're on the

maximum attack. # Get out of the way, if you can't

stand the flak. # Me and my Army, we are on a

maximum attack. # You have got to face up to the

fact, this is only mine. # It's a killer, killer, killer.

APPLAUSE. Glastonbury! Yes, rocking, Band of Skulls. I would think, if I

were a young woman, thinking of being in a band, I would see the

bass player in the Band of Skulls and think, I want to do that. Just

because you are not a young woman does not mean you cannot go for it,

it does not have to be a gender thing. I am already losing your

affections to a wicker rabbit. He is lovely, I love him. We have played

you a lot of great new music on the programme and where better to

discover more than at the BBC Introducing stage, where you will

find streaming on the Glastonbury website. We will catch up with a

fantastic artist that I have been playing a lot. She is called Frances

# I'll fear your fear of EU, I'll cry your tears for you.

# Even if I fall down, when you are not around, don't worry about me.

# Don't worry about me. # Because if I fall, you will fall.

# And if I rise, we will rise together.

# When I smile, we will smile. # And don't worry about me.

# Don't worry about me. # I'll feel the fear for you

# I'll cry your tears for you # I'll do anything I can to make you

comfortable # Even if I fall down

# When you're not around # Don't worry bout me

# Don't worry b arcs t me # I'll climb the hills you face

# I'll do this in your place # I'll do anything to go through it

instead of you # But even if I fall down

# When you're not around # Don't worry bout me

# Cos if I fall... # You'll fall

# And if I rise... # We rise together

# When I smile... # Owl smile

# And don't worry bout me # Don't worry bout me

# Cos if I fall # Owl fall

# And if I rise we rise together # When I smile...

# Owl smile # Don't worry bout me

# Don't worry bout me If I fall, owl

fall # If I rise, we rise together

# When I smile... Owl smile # Don't worry bout me. Thank you.

Frances. She's been working with the Communion label. It is a Crucible

for brilliant British artists. I think she has a bright future ahead

of her. That is the BBC introducing stage,

one of the many streamed on the BBC Glastonbury websitement

We are building up to the headline night. Some have started early. One

bloke was wearing a oncie. It is still there. He staggered off

somewhere! But we are building up to ael tonight. But to get news the

mood let's have a flavour of last night's headliners of Muse and this

is Plug In Baby. # Exposed your lies

# It's no big surprise # And now it's time for changing

APPLAUSE. Making Pyramid Stage history, now

the only band ever to have headlined the Pyramid Stage on a Friday night,

Saturday night and Sunday night. A lot of Brian may musical DNA in

that. Tonight, the headline is Adele, who

was spotted in Tesco in Glastonbury. It would be hard to imagine last

year Kanye nipping in there. She is a folk hero. We are looking forward

to her gracing the stage tonight and this is her journey to Glastonbury.

Second up in 2016's hat-trick of home-grown headliners is the nation,

note the world's, favourite female staff.

# Let me photograph you. Surprisingly, this is her first

official outing at Glastonbury and she is making her way straight to

the top. Saturday night on the Pyramid Stage. Tottenham born and

Brixton bread, Adele dream to following the footsteps of her

heroes The Spice Girls and Etta James. She went to the Brit School

in Croydon and was sued on the road to glory.

# You can find him, sitting on your doorstep. The song spoke of the life

and loves of her generation with a distinctly London accent. Her debut,

19, released in 2008, went straight to number one and gave us the first

in a stream of classic ballads. And the hits kept coming.

# Should I give up... ? Please give a big cheer for the gorgeous Adele.

I am not going to talk too long because speeches are really boring.

Next came what some referred to as the tricky second album. 21 stormed

the top of the charts and camped out there longer than any other album by

a solo artist in history. She is currently number one in an

astonishing 17 countries. If you have ever had a broken heart, you

are about to remember it now. # I wish nothing but the best for

you. And with someone like you, Adele

gave the nation a collective we peed moment. And so, by her mid-twenties,

Adele was fast becoming a national treasure, making her a perfect fit

to perform the latest James Bond theme.

# This is the end. # Hold your breath and count to ten.

If that was not on the enough, the song won a Grammy, a Golden Globe,

even an Oscar. And the fairy tale continued when

later in 2013 Adele was invited to Buckingham Palace to receive the

MBE. After that she needed a break and took time off to become a mother

and reflect on the phenomena in her life has become. But now, she is

back. The new album 25 has become the UK's fastest selling album of

all time. She has just signed the most lucrative record deal in

history. And the biggest star on the planet is about to storm its

greatest stage. Tonight's headliner, Adele, who I

met once at the Mercury prize and she came in a radio show with Robert

Plant and had a lot of red wine and Coca-Cola. She was a hoot. She is

tremendous. I am excited to see what she does tonight and we will bring

you that. We have a couple of shows. We are back at 7pm on BBC Four. The

first thing you will be able to see is Squeeze and 7:30pm on BBC Two...

Madness. And building up to the headline performance from Adele,

kicking at around nine o'clock. Tune in to the website. There is plenty

to find there and live streaming of those stages. She has a down to

earth approach. I think it will be a real moment and real connection with

the crowd. Do not miss it, stay with us. Adele will be on live from

Glastonbury tonight at 9pm.