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The WILDEST party of the year is here!
Glastonbury Festival, the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world, is underway.
Held at the Worthy Farm in Somerset, the annual festival aims to encourage and stimulate youth culture from around the world in all its forms, including pop music, dance music, jazz, folk music, fringe theatre, drama, mime, circus, cinema, poetry and all the creative forms of art and design, including painting, sculpture and textile art.
Festival-goers have been arriving in their thousands at Glastonbury, after the gates officially opened for the five-day extravaganza.
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The WILDEST party of the year is here!
Festival goers apply sunscreen during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm on June 26, 2014 in Glastonbury, England
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The WILDEST party of the year is here!
Festival goers relax in a yoga session during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm on June 26, 2014 in Glastonbury, England.
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The WILDEST party of the year is here!
General atmosphere during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Glastonbury, England.
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The WILDEST party of the year is here!
Festival goers are pictured in front of the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset, on the second day of the Glastonbury music festival June 26, 2014.
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The WILDEST party of the year is here!
Two women share a kiss below the Ribbon Tower in The Park at Worthy Farm. Tickets to the event, which is now in its 44th year, sold out in minutes even before any of the headline acts had been confirmed. The festival, which started in 1970 when several hundred hippies paid £1, now attracts more than 175,000 people.
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People dance at a stage in the Shangri-La area of Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts site at Worthy Farm
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A woman sits on a stone at the Stone Circle at Worthy Farm in Pilton on the first day of the 2014 Glastonbury Festival
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The WILDEST party of the year is here!
General atmosphere during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm.
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The WILDEST party of the year is here!
A girl pedals air into a forge in a blacksmiths stall during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm
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A festival goer chooses a hat during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm
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The WILDEST party of the year is here!
People gather to watch the sun set at Worthy Farm in Pilton on the first day of the 2014 Glastonbury Festival
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The WILDEST party of the year is here!
People pitch their tents in the camping fields at Worthy Farm in Pilton on the first day of the 2014 Glastonbury Festival
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The WILDEST party of the year is here!
People gather to watch the sun set at Worthy Farm in Pilton on the first day of the 2014 Glastonbury Festival
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The WILDEST party of the year is here!
Festival goers enjoy the atmosphere during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm
Watch this space for more fun moments from Glastonbury in the days to come.
Meanwhile, click MORE to see moments from last year's festival