The scaffolding built on Somerset farmland in 1971 gave birth to the world's most famous holiday platform

Nothing defines Glastonbury like the Pyramid Stage.

It is the only performance platform in the world that is almost as famous as the music scores of global music stars who sang, danced, exposed their souls and made history on it in the past five years.

For millions of music lovers and music producers, this is a symbol that can be recognized at a glance. It represents Glastonbury's unique magic and unlimited possibilities. It has been an ambitious from the beginning. structure.

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The original Pyramid Stage debuted at Worthy Farm in June 1971. Made of scaffolding, metal mesh and plastic sheeting, this concept appeared in the dream of designer Bill Harkin. After he was attracted to nearby Glastonbury Tor to meditate, a mythical, A place of legend and spirituality.

He later wrote that in his imagination of the stage, the audience and the hillside, "there are two beams of light forming a pyramid in the sky." The next day, using his training as an architect and set designer, he made the pyramid of his dreams out of cardboard.

Bill, who died earlier this year, took the model to Worthy Farm in Pilton, where Andrew Kerr he met on Tor was organizing the Glastonbury Fayre that year, just like the original festival.

Andrew looked for a perfect spot on this land to build a stage that mimics the great ancient Egyptian monuments-on a ground line between Glastonbury and Stonehenge. These materials cost 1,100 pounds, and crowds of people helped to keep it up to the summer solstice festival.

In 1971, spotlights illuminated Glastonbury Fayre’s original pyramid stage

The first permanent Glastonbury Music Festival pyramid stage filmed in 1986

The situation at Glastonbury Music Festival in 1994 looked bleak, when the pyramid stage was burned down ten days before the event.

The host of the Glastonbury Music Festival, Michael Elvis, launched his biodegradable tent nails against the backdrop of the skeleton pyramid stage in 2008

The contemporary pyramid stage of the 2017 Glastonbury Music Festival caught everyone’s attention

Pyramid stage against the dramatic sky at the 2007 Glastonbury Music Festival

In 2010, as the Somerset Glastonbury Festival celebrated its 40th anniversary, the moon shone above the top of the pyramid stage