‘Without Shania Twain there’d be no Taylor Swift ’ – Country star lights up the stage on final day of Glastonbury 2024
Shania Twain described her Glastonbury Festival set as “life-changing” as she was joined by thousands of music fans yesterday.
The Canadian country singer performed from her back catalogue of hits during the festival’s coveted Legends slot, beginning with hit track That Don’t Impress Me Much and ending with Man! I Feel Like A Woman!
The 58-year-old took to the stage wearing a ruffled pink ensemble which she then took off, revealing a black mini-dress.
Twain revealed she had explored the festival site ahead of her debut performance.
“This really is a city, it’s a community,” she said.
Later on she told the crowd: “I find moments like this very life-changing.”
The country legend also performed in Ireland on Friday night when she took to the stage in Dublin’s Malahide Castle.
One Glastonbury fan, Grace Carroll (32), said the show had meant a huge amount to her as she had been “obsessed” with Twain since she was nine years old.
The fundraising officer, from London, added: “She set the blueprint, you know.
“Like, without Shania Twain, there’d be no Taylor Swift. So she’s, yes, literally, an icon, perfect person to have on the Legends stage.”
British rock band Coldplay thrilled audiences on Saturday night as they performed their record-breaking fifth headline slot at Glastonbury.
The band first headlined on the Pyramid Stage in 2002 and overtook 1980s icons The Cure, who have headlined the slot four times, in a performance that saw them throw it back to the year 2000 by opening with their hit song Yellow.
Frontman Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, drummer Will Champion and bassist Guy Berryman started their history-making set – which saw them joined by surprise stage guests, including Hollywood star Michael J Fox.
Their second song of the night was Higher Power, from their ninth album Music Of The Spheres, with Martin going on to sit down on the stage as he started the song Paradise, from their 2011 album Mylo Xyloto, where singer-songwriter Victoria Canal joined them on the piano.
Martin told the audience, who were wearing LED bracelets that change colour in time with the beat of music: “I look around and I just see amazing, wonderful people from all over the place and that’s what makes Glastonbury the greatest city on earth.”
During their set, which featured lasers, fireworks and hit songs like The Scientist, Clocks, Viva La Vida and their Chainsmokers collaboration Something Just Like This, one of the T-shirts Martin wore featured the slogan “Everyone is an alien somewhere”.
Back To The Future star Michael J Fox was brought on to the stage in a wheelchair and played guitar for the song Fix You alongside the band.
The activist and former Hollywood actor (63) was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s disease a year after Back To The Future Part III was released in 1990.
Earlier yesterday, a barefoot Paloma Faith offered relationship advice to the Pyramid Stage audience, aimed at just the men.
The 42-year-old British singer said she had been experimenting with dating apps, but she called that form of finding love the “Wild West” as people “don’t really know how to connect anymore”.
Faith added: “Try and stay together, but it’s the resentment that’s the problem.
“So all I’m asking, this is a plea, I’m talking about (heterosexual) men, if you are married... and I just want you to notice that if a woman does the same action every single day, it means it needs doing, so don’t wait to ask to do it, just do it.”
Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett headed to Faith’s set earlier in the day.
Other celebrities photographed enjoying the music through the weekend included Anya Taylor-Joy, Carla Delevingne Tom Cruise, Oasis star Noel Gallagher and more.
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