Glastonbury organisers angrily defend picking hip-hop star Jay-Z as headline act
Published 4/15/2008 at TV&Showbiz | Mail Online
Glastonbury organisers have angrily defended their decision to pick hip-hop star Jay-Z to headline this year's festival. Co-organiser Emily Eavis counter-attacked after Noel Gallagher claimed it was 'wrong' to give a rapper top billing at the festival
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