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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Imogen Tilden

Brian Wilson: festival highlight?


Smile: Brian Wilson.
Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty
Having had many "Glastonbury moments" in the five festivals I've been at, I rather feel that Brian Wilson's late afternoon set on the Pryamid Stage under the beating sun has to be the most euphoric yet. Halfway through the set, after Good Vibrations, Sloop John B and God Only Knows, a colleague turned to me and asks: "What can he have left?" California Girls, Surfing USA, Barbara Ann, Fun Fun Fun - they just kept coming at you, and we kept dancing. Magic. Betty Clarke's review is here.

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