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| Glastonbury will honour Jackson | Glastonbury will honour Jackson |
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| Bands playing at Glastonbury Festival this weekend are set to pay tribute to the King of Pop - Michael Jackson - who has died at the age of 50. | Bands playing at Glastonbury Festival this weekend are set to pay tribute to the King of Pop - Michael Jackson - who has died at the age of 50. |
| Festival organiser Emily Eavis, writing on the social networking site Twitter, called Jackson a "truly great artist". | Festival organiser Emily Eavis, writing on the social networking site Twitter, called Jackson a "truly great artist". |
| She added: "There will be tributes all over the site, all weekend". | |
| Dave McCabe, singer with The Zutons, told the BBC some cover versions are inevitable: "Hopefully, 'cos he's got good songs and it's always a winner." | Dave McCabe, singer with The Zutons, told the BBC some cover versions are inevitable: "Hopefully, 'cos he's got good songs and it's always a winner." |
| Many festival-goers learned of the news late last night as DJs scattered around the festival site began playing Jackson tracks. | |
| One fan said: "They started playing loads of his music and we thought, 'Oh, that's really strange' and then someone said, 'Michael Jackson's dead' and we were like, 'No way'." | One fan said: "They started playing loads of his music and we thought, 'Oh, that's really strange' and then someone said, 'Michael Jackson's dead' and we were like, 'No way'." |
| Another reveller added: "Everyone thought it was a joke at first - then people started watching the news and saw it was true." | |
| "Knocked sideways" | |
| Other than Eavis's twitter, there has been no official word from the festival about what tributes are planned. | |
| Refund issues over Jackson gigs | |
| BBC Radio 1 presenter Jo Whiley is at the festival site and noted a muted mood at Worthy farm on Friday morning. | |
| She said US artists performing later today, such as the Black Eyed Peas and N*E*R*D, would be "knocked sideways" by the news of Jackson's death. | |
| She added: "Everybody will be celebrating the music of Michael Jackson. You can guarantee tonight there will be loads and loads of Jacko coming out of sound systems here." | |
| Artists including Lily Allen, Lady GaGa and Neil Young will all play at the festival later on Friday. |