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Glastonbury 2017: the best of Friday's festival action – in pictures

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Radiohead balanced gloom and glory, Lorde hypnotised with a supernatural performance, and even David Beckham turned up

Lorde performs on the Other stage at Glastonbury.

Lorde, Other stage

I think when you’re a strange magical person – and I’m a witch – you know what it’s like. You know that you’re not too much for everyone

  • Fans take a break between sets on the Pyramid stage

During one 45-minute period on the Pyramid stage, three of the most handsome Americans who ever lived graced the stage: Kris Kristofferson, playing his country classics; Johnny Depp, guesting on acoustic guitar; and Bradley Cooper, recording scenes for his remake of A Star is Born (which of course starred Kristofferson in the 1976 version). Brad Pitt was also apparently glimpsed at the side of the stage.

Major Lazer

Major Lazer, Other stage

The global dance powerhouse, headed up by Diplo, were perfectly programmed against Radiohead’s furrowed-brow angst – all fireworks, epic drops and delirious crowd control.

  • David Beckham helped Michael Eavis plant a tree in nearby Pilton, to officially open a social housing project which has been built on land donated by Glastonbury festival. Becks sensibly deferred to Michael Eavis’s farming knowledge, and let him do the digging...
  • Dizzee Rascal, headlining the West Holts stage
Charlie XCX performs on the Other Stage during day 2

Charli XCX, Other stage

She’s a relentlessly entertaining performer, pulling out all the stops, spectacle-wise – flanked by four silver air-dancers, who gyrate beside her, before firing off a cannon full of pink paper

The shy showmanship of the xx is the antithesis of rock’n’roll, but as the the sort of heritage hipster act they’ve become – big beats and maximum melancholy – it makes for an apt appetiser for the headliners

  • Dua Lipa, performing on the John Peel stage

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