00:00I'll say that with me again.
00:02Hmm.
00:03Yeah.
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:07And today, we're counting down our picks
00:09for the top 10 most legendary headliners
00:12ever to grace the main stage at a music festival.
00:23Number 10, Dolly Parton at Glastonbury, 2014.
00:30When Dolly Parton finally performed at Glastonbury, 2014,
00:38for the legend slot on Sunday,
00:41it was always going to be a special occasion.
00:44Nearly 200,000 people flocked to the pyramid stage
00:48to hear the iconic songwriter
00:50and to say that Parton delivered would be an understatement.
00:54Hits like Jolene, 9 to 5, and Islands in the Stream
01:05were as well-received as can be.
01:07Parton, despite being in the business for decades at this point,
01:11hadn't lost a step vocally.
01:13When she closed the show with her signature composition,
01:16I Will Always Love You,
01:17the crowd could not have been more satisfied.
01:20A five-star performance on every level.
01:33Number 9, The Rolling Stones at Glastonbury, 2013.
01:37The fact that The Rolling Stones had never headlined Glastonbury
01:48was finally remedied when the band hit the pyramid stage in 2013.
01:52Mick Jagger even jokingly commented on that fact,
01:55telling the crowd, quote,
01:57they finally got round to asking us.
01:59You could tell from the opening number onwards
02:01that this was going to be a special show.
02:11The Stones have no shortage of hits,
02:13and highlights from their entire repertoire
02:15were on display from the get-go.
02:17Sympathy for the Devil, Gimme Shelter,
02:19and many more songs stood out,
02:21setting a pace that would not falter
02:23over the course of the gig's two-hour runtime.
02:25Over 50 years into their career,
02:27and still firing on all cylinders.
02:38Number 8, Beyonce at Coachella, 2018.
02:42Beyonce was never going to take a headlining spot
02:44at Coachella lately.
02:46From the opening seconds of her intro,
02:48it was clear that she was planning something truly unique.
02:51I look and stand so deep in your eyes.
02:54I touch on you more and more every time.
02:56When you leave, I'm begging you not to go.
02:58Crazy in Love offered just a taste of the bombast
03:01that would follow.
03:02And by the time this multi-act show was done,
03:05she had brought us a retrospective on her entire career.
03:09She even brought out her fellow members of Destiny's Child
03:12for some major nostalgia.
03:21Beyonce was in peak form vocally,
03:23and the entire stage show alone was good enough
03:26that you could enjoy it with the sound off,
03:28a real benchmark for modern-day festival headliners.
03:31You're the one that tears are old.
03:34You're the one that always falls.
03:36When I need you, baby, everything sucks.
03:39Number 7, James Brown at Woodstock, 1999.
03:43Woodstock!
03:44Woodstock!
03:45Woodstock!
03:46Woodstock!
03:51The hardest working man in show business
03:53didn't get that title overnight.
03:54James Brown was truly an ageless wonder,
03:57a man who looked as primed for the stage in his early 20s
04:01as he did nearly 50 years later.
04:03Brown only accepts the highest standards.
04:06When it comes to his backing band,
04:08and at Woodstock in 1999,
04:10their musicianship was on full display.
04:20It's hard to believe that James was pushing 70
04:22at the time of this concert.
04:23The career-spanning set never let up in its momentum.
04:26By the time all was said and done,
04:28the funk and soul legend had well and truly stolen the show.
04:41Number 6, Bob Dylan at Newport Folk Festival, 1965.
04:45Once upon a time, you dressed so fine
04:47through the bumps a dime in your prime.
04:53Is there a more famous and controversial single performance
04:56in music history than Bob Dylan's return to the Newport Folk Festival in 1965?
05:00Well, there is so much context and backstory
05:03to Dylan's rejection of the folk scene in the mid-60s
05:06that we'd be here all day if we tried to explain it.
05:09However, despite his full band performance being such a polarizing moment,
05:13the show itself was Dylan at his very best.
05:24Sure, a few people in the crowd were upset to see Bob throwing away his acoustic guitar
05:28in favor of a new sound, but that new sound could not have been better.
05:32Dylan is known to be a somewhat mercurial performer,
05:35but on this night, he was in top form.
05:42Number 5, David Bowie at Glastonbury, 2000.
05:55David Bowie may have changed styles, genres and backing bands over the course of his career,
06:00but his knack for live performance was a constant.
06:03In 2000, he headlined the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury
06:06for a triumphant career-spanning set.
06:16Even when vocal struggles threatened to derail him, Bowie never lost his composure.
06:21Old classics flowed seamlessly into new releases,
06:24and his backing band was as tight as can be.
06:27He didn't skimp on the old material either,
06:29giving fans a setlist that offered a taste of every era of his career.
06:33All in all, Bowie looked as comfortable on stage as he ever did.
06:45Number 4, Prince at Coachella, 2008.
06:48To say the Prince was an enigma would be putting it lightly.
07:00He's also the type of artist who is unflinchingly confident in his ability to do things his own way,
07:05and make them work.
07:06His Coachella set in 2008 was no different.
07:09He didn't even play a track from his own solo catalogue until eight songs in,
07:22adorning the set with covers of artists like Santana, the B-52s, Sarah McLachlan, the Beatles,
07:28and one iconic version of Radiohead's Creep.
07:31That's not to say he didn't play his own hits, though.
07:33In many ways, it was the perfect Prince setlist.
07:36The Coachella choir, I wanna hear y'all sing it.
07:40Come together, yeah!
07:43Number 3, Otis Redding at Monterey Pop, 1967.
07:48Otis Redding was truly hitting his stride at the age of 25 in 1967,
08:02performing one of the most powerful sets of the decade at the Monterey Pop Festival that year.
08:07Over the course of just five songs,
08:09Redding showcased a truly enormous amount of explosive energy,
08:13pivoting wildly between raw power and gentle honesty.
08:16The set contains one of his finest vocal performances,
08:19and thankfully, the whole thing was captured beautifully on film.
08:33Tragically, this would be one of the final highlights of his career.
08:37Later that year, Redding would die in a plane crash,
08:40posthumously sitting number one in the charts with a song he had recorded just three days before,
08:45Sitting on the Dock of the Bay.
08:47Sitting on the Dock of the Bay, wasting time.
08:52Number 2, Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, 1969.
09:00Jimi Hendrix redefined the guitar on several occasions during his short career.
09:12But even by standards, Woodstock 1969 was truly special.
09:17Hendrix and his band were truly at the peak of their powers.
09:20Whatever magical energy that legendary festival was producing,
09:32Jimi and the boys were harnessing it during their set.
09:35Who knows when Jimi Hendrix actually decided to rework the American national anthem on his guitar,
09:40but it was a masterstroke.
09:42There's a reason why out of all of the legendary performers who made up this iconic festival,
09:47Hendrix's performance is always the one that springs to mind first.
10:01Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.
10:04Oasis at Glastonbury, 1994.
10:07The Britpop movement at its very best.
10:19Daft Punk at Wireless, 2007.
10:21A triumphant display of the French legend's live capabilities.
10:25Amy Winehouse at Glastonbury, 2007.
10:36The tragic legend in her absolute prime.
10:48Joan Osborne at Lilith Fair, 1997.
10:51An iconic performance at a festival celebrating women in music.
10:55Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:58What if God was one of us?
11:02Lady Gaga with semi-precious weapons at Lollapalooza, 2010.
11:06A highlight moment at the peak of Gaga's emergence.
11:09Semi-precious weapons and Lady Gaga proved at Lollapalooza, 2010.
11:16That rock and roll is f***ing back.
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11:34Number 1. Nirvana at Reading Festival, 1992.
11:39Few bands, if any, could make a giant stage feel like an intimate gig quite like Nirvana did at Reading in 1992.
11:55Somehow, Kurt Cobain and his band invited thousands of attendees into a set that felt like it could have been played in some dingy grunge club all the way back in Seattle.
12:04They were very clearly enjoying themselves too, keeping a lighthearted tone throughout while performing with near-perfect precision.
12:11The chaotic nature of the band's style didn't get in the way of this being an excellent display of musicianship.
12:24It was instantly regarded as one of the best headlining performances of the year.
12:28And its stock has only grown in the time since.
12:39What legendary festival performance sticks out in your memory?
12:42Let us know in the comments.
12:44What are those things we have now?
12:46What do you guys do now?
12:47I will pause now for a minute and about the while.
12:48See you on the piano, place it up around.
12:49See you the next day.
12:50Before four or five days!
12:51You want to end up with this step of three days?
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