Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury

I didn’t know Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols was a member of Blondie - but it seems he joined last year, after previously stepping in for Leigh Foxx when he suffered a back injury.

In a recent interview with Classic Pop magazine, guitarist Chris Stein announced that Matlock would also play on Blondie’s forthcoming album: “Glen has just been great. Unlike ‘Pollinator’, we’re mostly keeping this album in-house: it’s just the band and Glen playing on it. He’s fitted right in.”

Judging by the strutting funk bassline he’s currently playing in Rapture, that’s an understatement.

Paul Glynn
Entertainment & arts reporter

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Blondie are ripping through raucous post-punk hits from the late '70s here.

Frontwoman Debbie Harry, who turns 78 next week, is sounding great.

After playing Hanging on the Telephone and Call Me, she joked: "We had to get those phone songs out of the way, because none of it is relevant today... we all have our phones in our pocket."

Well said Debs.

Leave the phones in your tent and make some new friends!

They're now playing the groovier Rapture, which in 1980 was the first number one single in the US to feature rap vocals.

That's right, punk icon Harry is spitting bars all over the Pyramid Stage - to whooops all around.

Jack Burgess
BBC News Live reporter

And here we go... Blondie's hit Atomic, from their 1979 Eat to the Beat album, is rocking the Glastonbury crowd now.

The song, with its spaghetti western-style opening riff, is much-loved among Blondie fans and famously featured on the soundtrack of the classic Danny Boyle film Trainspotting.

Jack Burgess
BBC News Live reporter

...her hit Hanging on the Telephone, which was released by Blondie in 1978 on the iconic Parallel Lines album.

The Glastonbury Pyramid Stage crowd are getting in full swing now and cheering along to the chorus with Debbie Harry - who turns 78 in a few days' time!

My favourite's Atomic - I wonder if we'll be hearing that shortly.

Paul Glynn
Entertainment & arts reporter

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Blondie have played Glasto twice before - first in 1999 and then again in 2014.

They're raising the BPMs after fellow Sunday "Legend" Cat Stevens left them the Pyramid Stage floor.

Frontwoman Debbie Harry, sauntered on to the stage dressed in black, with silver mono-shades as the band revved up the distorted, post-punk guitar strains of 1978 track One Way or Another, from their classic album Parallel Lines.

Here we go. This will be wall-to-wall bangers.

New Yorker post-punk indie disco band Blondie are next up on Glastonbury's main stage.

We're expecting to hear all the classics - Atomic, Heart of Glass, Hanging on the Telephone.

They're kicking off with One Way or Another. Stick with us as we bring you the latest!

For those of you who couldn’t make it to Worthy Farm (or couldn't face sleeping in a roasting tent with camping-induced back pain), we’ve got you covered:

• Tap Play at the top of this page for the Glastonbury Channel, which has live sets, performance highlights and interviews
• BBC iPlayer will also be streaming live from the five main festival stages - Pyramid (with British Sign Language), Other, West Holts, Park and Woodsies - and you can watch these too at the top of the page, too

All streams are available in the UK only.

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As we wait for Blondie, let's look back at the act that kicked the music off on the Pyramid Stage today - the Bristol Reggae Orchestra and Windrush Choir.

Performers from the choir have described opening Glastonbury's main stage, in front of a crowd of thousands, as "the best moment ever".

One member admitted to pre-show nerves as she feared no-one would show up to watch.

Founded in 2011, the choir was set up to reach out to diverse groups in Bristol.

It works with people of all ages and musical ability and takes its name from the descendants of the Windrush generation.

Read more on this story here.

Paul Glynn
Entertainment & arts reporter

New Yorkers Blondie are about to turn the Pyramid Stage into a post-punk indie disco.

One way or another you're going to want to make time to watch that one.

Elsewhere, English electro pop star Alison Goldfrapp will be on the Park Stage from 18.15 BST, then Editors will go down to the Woodsies for 18:30.

At the same time Jamaican Barringon Levy will bring his reggae and dancehall carnival vibes to West Holts Sage.

Irish sing-songwriter and Soccer Aid football star Dermot Kennedy is finishing his set on the Other Stage right now.

Paul Glynn
Entertainment & arts reporter

Cat Stevens played a Beatles cover, Here Comes the Sun, earlier - and now he has just wrapped up his set with a rendition of perhaps his best known song, Father and Son.

Stevens looked up at big screen footage of himself performing as a younger man, while playing the 1970 ballad, which received a rousing applause at the end.

The track, which sees Stevens offer sage advice to his offspring in G major, has been covered many times over by the likes of Rod Stewart, Johnny Cash and, of course, Boyzone.

In 2014 Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating collaboraed with Stevens on a version that went to number two in the UK singles charts, giving the latter his joint highest chart position.

He'll pass the "legends" baton on to Debbie Harry now backstage, as Blondie prepare to take over on the Pyramid Stage.

Anthony Ward
reporting from Glastonbury

“I thought I may as well go the full hog, the full shebang… you’re never gonna get another chance to see Elton again,” says Liam Holt from Somerset.

Meanwhile, Anko and Edwin - visting from the Netherlands - wore Elton-inspired matching suits.

And Elton super fans Mike, George, Rhys and Xavier, from Wales, told us: "You’ve got to go big for the big send off."

Paul Glynn
Entertainment & arts reporter

From Cat Stevens to Cat Burns...

The hotly-tipped UK singer recently toured with 2017 Glastonbury headliner Ed Sheeran.

Now she's used her slot on the Woodsies Stage to pay him back by leading the crowd in an acoustic medley mash-up of his tracks including the The A Team and Love Yourself.

"You guys can sing," she told the crowd.

Flattery will get you everywhere with a festival crowd.

She'll finish her set with her own upbeat top 10 single, Go. And then do precisely that, no doubt with a load of new fans in tow.

Victoria Bourne
Reporting from Glastonbury

If you come to Glastonbury you get treated to music in between each performance on the Pyramid Stage. The man whose job it has been to provide the tunes since the early 1980s is the DJ, Chris Bull.

I bumped into him in the crew catering tent at lunchtime. He warmed up for the US rapper Kanye West who headlined in 2015, but Chris says he's still waiting to see if he'll do the honours for Sir Elton John: "I won't find out until before his set - it would be quite the accolade."

He tells me he's a fan of the superstar: "I'm of an age where I remember him from the beginning, and he's done so many fantastic songs - and also I think he's a really great person."

Like everyone else at the farm, Chris has also been hearing rumours of special guests. Billy Joel was his bet.

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As Cat Stevens plays The Beatles' Here Comes the Sun, it seems a good time to update you on the weather at Worthy Farm.

Unlike some years, the sun has shone for Glastonbury 2023 - and temperatures peacked at around 26C earlier with clear blue skies.

The festival's organisers have been tweeting advice , externalfor festival-goers in the heat.

They advised revellers to drink lots of water, wear sun cream, seek shade and to look after each other.

It's getting slightly cooler and cloudier now, but we're sure the music will be hotting up again!

Paul Glynn
Entertainment & arts reporter

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Yusuf, aka Cat Stevens, and Blondie are sharing the responsibility of the now traditional, effective fourth Pyramid Stage headline slot - "the legends slot" - on Sunday afternoon.

But could next year's act already be in the bag? It now seems likely as Spice Girl Mel C, who performed solo last night, has told BBC Radio 6 Music's Matt Everitt the group wannabe involved.

"Like I said to the audience [on Saturday night], doing a couple of Spice Girls songs, 'a bit of a warm-up for next year?'

"They're rehearsed, they know the words, they're ready," she continued.

"So, if I can drag the other girls along... I say 'drag' the other girls along - all of the Spice Girls would like to play Glasto, that is the truth.

"It's just getting it together, the timing being right."

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Victoria Bourne
Reporting from Glastonbury

In the middle of the rolling Somerset countryside is the pop-up city that is Glastonbury.

With more than 200,000 people on site it has the fourth-largest population in the south-west of England - and covers an area roughly the size of 500 football pitches.

If you're still struggling to picture it this aerial video might help. Our colleague at BBC West, Dan Pomroy, had the pleasure of taking a hot air balloon trip over the site.

He said that even at 3000ft up in the air you could hear the sound of music and the crowds merging together.

Paul Glynn
Entertainment & arts reporter

A man in his 40s has died at Glastonbury Festival following a "medical incident", police have said.

In a statement on Sunday, Avon and Somerset Police said: “Shortly before 4am today emergency services responded to medical incident involving a man in his 40s at Glastonbury Festival.

“The incident happened on a footpath known as the old railway line."

They added: “Sadly, the man died at the scene. His next of kin have been informed and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.

“The man’s death is not being treated as suspicious and officers are carrying out enquiries on behalf of the coroner.”

Paul Glynn
Entertainment & arts reporter

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The Murder on the Dancefloor singer performed on the Pyramid Stage at lunchtime, providing a poptastic palette cleanser for the gigs ahead.

She told the BBC's Mark Savage she learned how to play to big festival crowds by first of all having been in them herself as a big music fan.

"I've been that person stood in that field, I've been the audience member thinking, 'OK, how does this go?'" she said.

"So I like hopefully being in it together with them, I'm always really in the moment."

She added: "I just try and connect with people as much as I can, I want everybody to feel that I looked their way at least once."

The singer said played the festival in the 1990s, 2010s and 2020s, but curiously never in the 2000s when she was at her commercial peak.

"It's so nice to be back here again, and I love the fact that I played the 90s, the teens and now I'm here in the 20s, but I missed out on the noughties - it's kind of funny!

"How many other performers out there have done three decades but they're not consecutive?"

Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury

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Cat Stevens / Yusuf makes a low-key entrance to the Pyramid Stage, after the PA plays The Beatles’ All You Need Is Love.

Accompanied only by acoustic guitar, he opens with The Wind, the beautiful, pastoral opening track from his 1971 album Teaser And The Firecat.

After that, it’s straight into Moonshadow, one of his most beloved songs. “Wow, thank you. Incredible, woah,” he says as the audience cheers. “I’m just thinking back to the first time I nervously walked up to a microphone in a tiny folk club in 1965. And now walking onto the great Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury. What a journey.”

From the outset, it’s been clear this won’t be a massive disco party in the style of Dolly or Kylie. But Stevens’ laid-back spirituality is a perfect fit for the mid-afternoon sun.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury

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It seems like an odd choice, doesn’t it? The Sunday afternoon legend slot typically plays host to massive, generation-spanning stars like Dolly Parton, Kylie Minogue and Barry Gibb.

On the Pyramid Staage now, Cat Stevens, it has to be said, does not have many disco anthems sitting in his back pocket if the crowd lose interest.

But you probably know more of his songs than you think. Wild World, First Cut Is The Deepest, Father And Son, Morning Has Broken.

That’s four potential singalongs right there. Pop star Carly Rae Jepsen certainly thinks he’s a good booking - and was gutted when she found out he was playing after she left the site.

“If I was allowed to stay, you'd catch me backstage, jumping on with him and trying to do the backing vocals to Moonshadow,” she told me.

And those gently soulful, lyrical songs of searching for a better world will be a gorgeous, mid-afternoon balm for anyone who’s gone a little too hard this weekend.

But the real explanation for the singer booking that iconic slot? Festival founder Michael Eavis.

"He loves Cat Stevens, as we all do,” his daughter Emily told us.

“The other day, we drove from Bath to the farm and he played Peace Train about 60 times. So yeah, he’s a proper fan.”