Thanks to the problem with travellers in 1990, there is no festival in ’91, but the following year sees a bigger and better Glastonbury with the introduction of the Jazz World Stage – an area dedicated to broadening the scope of the festival. Environmental concerns are embraced with a quarter of a million pounds being donated to Greenpeace and Oxfam for the first time and there’s the introduction of the “surprise special guest” on the Sunday. Hot rumours are that U2 or Prince will be the secret act, and the disappointment in the air is tangible when Tom Jones rocks up on the stage. Nevertheless, the Sunday afternoon old-timer is soon to become a Glasonbury tradition.

More annoying (to the thousands of Smiths acolytes in the audience) is a sudden cancellation by Morrissey, who claims that he has been having “problems with a member of the band”. Various pale young men clad in Smiths t-shirts were spotted crying over the weekend and their pain was not eased by the replacement act – James. Fellow Mancunians and former favourites of the man from Stretford, there was a mildly controversial moment when the band played a cover of Steven Patrick’s own We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful, a song allegedly written about… James.

Line up featured: Joan Armatrading, The Blue Aeroplanes, Blur, Billy Bragg And The Red Stars, The Breeders, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, Hugh Cornwell, Curve, Dr Phibes And the House Of Wax Equations, Th’ Faith Healers, The Fall, The Family Cat, Fat Dinosaur, Fishbone, Flowered Up, The Frank And Walters, Buddy Guy, PJ Harvey, The House Of Love, James, Mazlyn Jones, Tom Jones, K Passa, Kitchens Of Distinction, The Levellers, Kirsty MacColl, Midway Still, Van Morrison, Yossou N’Dour, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Ocean Colour Scene, The Orb, Primal Scream, The Real People, Lou Reed, Runrig, The Saw Doctors, Senseless Things, Senser, Shakespear’s Sister, The Shamen, Spiritualized, Television, Richard Thompson, Thousand Yard Stare, Chris Whitley, Jah Wobble’s Invaders Of The Heart.