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Eavis had to beg for Spingsteen as agent had never heard of Glastonbury

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Glastonbury festival organiser Emily Eavis has revealed that she had to write a special document to persuade Bruce Springsteen to make his first festival appearance at the Somerset bash next month.

Emily explained that Springsteen's agent had never heard of the Worthy Farm event before, so Eavis had to construct a document featuring glowing quotes from past headliners to persuade him to accept the booking.

"It's been our mission for quite a long time to get Bruce," she told BBC 6music. "I thought it was quite unlikely, especially when the agent said, 'Glaston-what?'

"We put together a document for him and spoke to his people a lot and they are really up for it. He's never done a festival before so we didn't expect him to know much about it. It included quotes from lots of different people, musicians who have played.

"It's quite hard to understand why you should play a festival for not much money when you're being offered quite a lot to go elsewhere.

"We put together some information and said 'This is what happens, this is all the money that goes to charity'. Pretty quickly he said: 'Yes'. It's amazing."

Bruce Springsteen will headline the Pyramid Stage on the Saturday night (June 27) of the festival.

Read the full Glastonbury line-up on NME.COM now.

www.nme.com

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I hadn't heard this before, so thanks for letting me know Mike.

I was reading in Q that Bruce had first heard about Glastonbury from Joe Strummer on the only occassion he met Joe.

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This has finally convinced me that mike99 is doing it on purpose. He seems to pop up around here enough to have heard that story about Bruce many times before, over the last 3 months its been floating around.

Just a total cut and paste job, utterly pointless.

It's not as if nme.com have got an exclusive on this one either, it's been well publicised.

And to the people who said they don't rely on nme.com for music news because they aren't a f**kwit, I can only imagine what you must be to rely on mike99 instead.

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This has finally convinced me that mike99 is doing it on purpose. He seems to pop up around here enough to have heard that story about Bruce many times before, over the last 3 months its been floating around.

Just a total cut and paste job, utterly pointless.

It's not as if nme.com have got an exclusive on this one either, it's been well publicised.

And to the people who said they don't rely on nme.com for music news because they aren't a f**kwit, I can only imagine what you must be to rely on mike99 instead.

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The agent had 100% heard of Glastonbury. No doubts, if he hadnt hes the worst agent ever. And hes not.

Bruce also knew about Glasto Im sure. Think its just a romantic spin on things, Eavis style!!

By the way, Eavis' letter to Bruce should've included the following

"P.S. Mr Springsteen, Outlaw Pete and Working on a Dream are not be be played under ANY circumstances on Worthy Farm. We've only just got the stink from Coldplays set in 05 off the Pyramid Stage and we dont need your "Isn't Obama great" soft cocked lefty garbage stinking up the stage too. We've Blur on the next day and we dont need them f**king off home due to the whiff.

Warm regards,

Michael & Emily"

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