{"id":96653,"date":"2015-03-05T07:50:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T07:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=96653"},"modified":"2015-03-05T07:50:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T07:50:42","slug":"lionel-richie-wants-a-roof-for-glastonbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=96653","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie wants a roof for Glastonbury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lionel Richie, who is playing Glastonbury for the first time this year, says he cannot understand why the British stage outdoor festivals.<\/p>\n

“Why would you have a festival when you’re not sure if it’s going to rain?” the soul star asked the BBC.<\/p>\n

“Why don’t you just put a roof on everything?” he continued. “I don’t understand!<\/p>\n

“But you all seem to like the mud and the rain and I’ve gotten used to it now,” he joked.<\/p>\n

Richie will take to Glastonbury’s main Pyramid stage on Sunday 28 June, in the “legends” slot that has previously been occupied by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.<\/p>\n

After more than 40 years performing live, Richie said he knows exactly how to win over the mid-afternoon crowd.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to be nothing but the hits,” he said.<\/p>\n

“When you’ve got that kind of stuff going, you just play the hits and kill ’em”.<\/p>\n

The set list could include classics such as Dancing on the Ceiling, All Night Long (All Night) and Hello, as well as Commodores smashes such as Easy and Brick House.<\/p>\n

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Richie recently attended the Brit Awards in London<\/div>\n

‘Huge head’<\/span><\/p>\n

Richie said the decision to play the festival was largely taken for him: “I didn’t decide really – they kind of said ‘it’s time’.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been hearing about this forever and, of course, Dolly Parton played it, and Neil Diamond, and some other friends, and then all of a sudden they said ‘would you like to play?'”<\/p>\n

Richie said he decided to “see what all this is about”, but added he is aware he already has a presence at the festival.<\/p>\n

“My head has been there for three years! They made a huge head of Lionel Richie – it’s where you can have all your communications. So inside it’s called ‘hello is it me you’re looking for?’ and that’s where all the wifi is,” he said.<\/p>\n

“So I’ve been there already, I’ve just not played”.<\/p>\n

Foo Fighters will top the bill on the first night of the festival this June, with the other two headline slots yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n

Organiser Emily Eavis has shot down rumours AC\/DC, Coldplay, Adele and Florence and the Machine have been asked to close the Pyramid stage.<\/p>\n

“This is the first year that most of the rumours are wrong,” she told eFestivals.<\/p>\n

“Normally, there’s someone in there who’s right – this has been our best year for secrets.”<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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