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Rolling Stones Make Glastonbury Debut, 50 Years After Their First Gig - Keith Says 'It Had To Be Done'

Rolling Stones Make Glastonbury Debut To Everyone's Satisfaction
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The Rolling Stones have finally made their debut outing on the Glastonbury stage, delighting an estimated 135,000 fans with their performance on the Pyramid Stage on Saturday night.

Keith Richards said earlier this week, "It had to be done," and now it has.

Lead singer Mick Jagger told the audience, "After all these years they finally got round to asking us."

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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards take to the stage at Glastonbury for the very first time

The band gave a well-received performance lasting more than two hours, which included hits from every decade of their 50-year career. Songs included 'Miss You, Start Me Up' and 'Brown Sugar'.

The band were joined on stage by a choir for 'You Can't Always Get What You Want', and by guitarist Mick Taylor, formerly with the band.

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Fireworks heralded the finale of the history-making set, which concluded with a stomping version of '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'.

And Jagger invited members of the audience who hadn't seen the band before "to please come again".

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Music - Glastonbury Festival 1971 - Worthy FarmTwo Glastonbury festival goers.
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GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND - JUNE 26: Ellis Cameron, 21 (L) and Iona Bruce, 21 from Scotland pose for a photograph as they arrive at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts site at Worthy Farm, in Pilton at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 26, 2013 near Glastonbury, England. Gates opened today at the Somerset diary farm that will be playing host to one of the largest music festivals in the world and this year features headline acts Artic Monkeys, Mumford and Sons and the Rolling Stones. Tickets to the event which is now in its 43rd year sold out in minutes and that was before any of the headline acts had been confirmed. The festival, which started in 1970 when several hundred hippies paid 1 GBP to watch Marc Bolan, now attracts more than 175,000 people over five days. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Rain clouds gather over the still being constructed Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts site at Worthy Farm, in Pilton on June 13, 2013 near Glastonbury, England. In a couple of weeks the diary farm in Somerset will be playing host to one of the largest music festivals in the world and this year features headline acts Artic Monkeys, Mumford and Sons and the Rolling Stones. Tickets to the event which is now in its 43rd year sold out in minutes and that was before any of the headline acts had been confirmed. The festival, which started in 1970 when several hundred hippies paid 1 GBP to watch Marc Bolan, now attracts more than 175,000 people over five days.
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People sit in front of the newly erected tents at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts site at Worthy Farm, in Pilton at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 26, 2013 near Glastonbury, England. Gates opened today at the Somerset diary farm that will be playing host to one of the largest music festivals in the world and this year features headline acts Artic Monkeys, Mumford and Sons and the Rolling Stones. Tickets to the event which is now in its 43rd year sold out in minutes and that was before any of the headline acts had been confirmed. The festival, which started in 1970 when several hundred hippies paid 1 GBP to watch Marc Bolan, now attracts more than 175,000 people over five days.
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Festivalgoer's dance beside the Pyramid stage on the second day of the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts near Glastonbury, southwest England on June 27, 2013.
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