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| Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger admits watching Glastonbury DVDs to prepare | Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger admits watching Glastonbury DVDs to prepare |
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| Sir Mick Jagger has admitted watching DVDs of past headlining acts at Glastonbury to prepare for the Rolling Stones' much-anticipated debut performance at the festival on Saturday night. | Sir Mick Jagger has admitted watching DVDs of past headlining acts at Glastonbury to prepare for the Rolling Stones' much-anticipated debut performance at the festival on Saturday night. |
| Speaking about the band's preparations for their headline appearance on the Pyramid stage, Jagger, 69, said he had watched performances from the past four years of the festival. | Speaking about the band's preparations for their headline appearance on the Pyramid stage, Jagger, 69, said he had watched performances from the past four years of the festival. |
| The band had been rehearsing up to "eight or nine hours a day", he added, admitting that playing in front of a huge open-air audience was not easy. | The band had been rehearsing up to "eight or nine hours a day", he added, admitting that playing in front of a huge open-air audience was not easy. |
| "Festivals are great to be at, but not always the easiest things to play," he told the Radio Times. "You've got to really work at that bit, but I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I've been working hard." | "Festivals are great to be at, but not always the easiest things to play," he told the Radio Times. "You've got to really work at that bit, but I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I've been working hard." |
| Although the veteran rocker did not comment about the band's setlist, he indicated it would start with one of their signature songs. | Although the veteran rocker did not comment about the band's setlist, he indicated it would start with one of their signature songs. |
| He said: "We're looking forward to it and I've been thinking about the setlist for the day and how we're going to deal with it. You've got to try and make sure the first number really cooks … gets everyone confident. | He said: "We're looking forward to it and I've been thinking about the setlist for the day and how we're going to deal with it. You've got to try and make sure the first number really cooks … gets everyone confident. |
| "That first number's got to be something you're super confident with. It's no good doing a slightly unknown number that the audience isn't going to deal with." | "That first number's got to be something you're super confident with. It's no good doing a slightly unknown number that the audience isn't going to deal with." |
| The Stones will perform a 2hr 15m set at Worthy Farm, complete with pyrotechnics and a mechanical phoenix. | The Stones will perform a 2hr 15m set at Worthy Farm, complete with pyrotechnics and a mechanical phoenix. |
| While fans who paid £205 to attend the three-day event will see the band's entire show, TV viewers will see only the first hour. A deal was struck with the BBC, which is broadcasting the event, after fears that only a few songs from the landmark performance would be televised. | |
| In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the Rolling Stones frontman also admitted that he finds his music career "intellectually undemanding" and said he previously considered becoming a journalist, politician or teacher. | In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the Rolling Stones frontman also admitted that he finds his music career "intellectually undemanding" and said he previously considered becoming a journalist, politician or teacher. |
| Jagger, who was a student at the London School of Economics when the Stones were starting out, said: "A schoolteacher would have been very gratifying, I'm sure. There are millions of things you would have loved to have done, a politician, a journalist … I thought of being a journalist once. | Jagger, who was a student at the London School of Economics when the Stones were starting out, said: "A schoolteacher would have been very gratifying, I'm sure. There are millions of things you would have loved to have done, a politician, a journalist … I thought of being a journalist once. |
| "All these things you think of when you're a teenager, you can think, well, I would have liked to have done that, but that's completely pointless, but I don't feel frustrated for a lack of control at all and I'm very pleased with what I've done. | "All these things you think of when you're a teenager, you can think, well, I would have liked to have done that, but that's completely pointless, but I don't feel frustrated for a lack of control at all and I'm very pleased with what I've done. |
| "Everyone wants to have done more things in their lives. It is a slightly intellectually undemanding thing to do, being a rock singer, but, you know, you make the best of it." | "Everyone wants to have done more things in their lives. It is a slightly intellectually undemanding thing to do, being a rock singer, but, you know, you make the best of it." |