When the museum in Cleveland decided it wanted a memento of the world's greatest festival, it asked for a painted oil drum, not Mick Jagger's setlist
"I don't really understand why," says a puzzled Michael Eavis. "For some reason the Americans wanted to put one in as a sample of what we do." He's pondering the request he received from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum in Cleveland, Ohio, which wanted a memento of Glastonbury the festival he founded and has overseen for 44 years and asked not for some piece of memorabilia left behind by a grateful headliner, but for a dustbin.
And so alongside John Lennon's guitar, Clarence Clemons's saxophone, Elvis's custom motorcycle and Joey Ramone's leather jacket visitors to the museum will be able to see a painted oil drum, one of 15,000 or so that are placed round the site to collect the refuse discarded by the revellers of whom there will be 177,000 this year.
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"I don't really understand why," says a puzzled Michael Eavis. "For some reason the Americans wanted to put one in as a sample of what we do." He's pondering the request he received from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum in Cleveland, Ohio, which wanted a memento of Glastonbury the festival he founded and has overseen for 44 years and asked not for some piece of memorabilia left behind by a grateful headliner, but for a dustbin.
And so alongside John Lennon's guitar, Clarence Clemons's saxophone, Elvis's custom motorcycle and Joey Ramone's leather jacket visitors to the museum will be able to see a painted oil drum, one of 15,000 or so that are placed round the site to collect the refuse discarded by the revellers of whom there will be 177,000 this year.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 22 hours ago.