The big picture: birth of the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury, 1971

Fashion photographer Paul Misso attended the first festival with the now-famous stage, and captured a world of stoners, hippies and free entry In 1971 the second Glastonbury festival was marked by the construction of the Pyramid stage. Designed by Bill Harkin, the structure was planned at one tenth the scale of the Pyramids of Giza and built from scaffolding and metal sheets on what was considered an auspicious ley line at Worthy Farm in Somerset.…

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