November 11 2011 – Summer may well and truly be over but at Tuesday night's Festival Awards Glastonbury came out top yet again.
Festival organizers threw aside their wellies to grace the stage and congratulate each other on what has been perhaps the most jam packed year in recent memory.
Glastonbury took the top award of "Best Major Festival", whilst newcomers Outlook took the much lusted after "Best Overseas Festival".
To celebrate Glastonbury in all it's glory, Gigwise has put together a countdown of the festivals history and highlights.
You can see the countdown on Gigwise below – shame we have to wait another year!
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The very first Glastonbury festival took place on September 19, 1970 - poignantly a day after Jimi Hendrix died. 34-year-old dairy farmer Michael Eavis was inspired to put on his own event after visiting the Blues Festival in Bath a year earlier. The one day extravaganza was attended by 1,500 people who each paid £1 a ticket - the price poignantly included free milk from the farm. Headlined by Marc Bolan's Tyrannosaurus Rex, other performers included Keith Christmas and Al Stewart.
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