Jay-Z has had tremendous success during his tour of Europe, bowling over fans with a slew of festival appearances, including his historic appearance at England’s Glastonbury Festival on Saturday.
Glastonbury is Britain’s biggest summer rockfest, and it’s usually headlined by popular limey rock bands like Coldplay, Muse, Radiohead, and Oasis.
So this year, when it was announced that American rapper Jay-Z would top the Glasto bill, Oasis’s own mouthy mouthpiece Noel Gallagher was none too thrilled. Noel even went so far as to publicly blame Jigga for Glastonbury 2008’s unusually low ticket sales.
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. If you break it, people ain’t gonna go,” the famously cantankerous Britpopper complained to the BBC in one of his typically brazen interviews. “I’m sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance. I’m not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. No way. No. It’s wrong.”
Well, apparently 140,000 or so festivalgoers disagreed with Noel and showed up for the headlining Hova…who kicked off his Glastonbury set in a most cheeky fashion by performing Oasis’s “Wonderwall” acoustic, dressed in a Gallagher-esque anorak, while a parody film featuring Noel’s nasty comments screened behind him. The crowd exploded, according to The London Times, which reported: “Both audience and artist rose to the occasion and turned in a moment of real, euphoric, pop-culture history.”
“Jay-Z’s performance will go down in Glastonbury history,” British paper The Independent also declared, while The Guardian concurred: “It’s brilliantly staged, utterly thrilling, and it makes Gallagher look a bit of a berk.”
Yep, Jay-Z showed ‘em what he got, indeed. But hey, Mr. Gallagher–don’t look back in anger, a’ight? And have a happy Independence Day…
[Source: Yahoo! Music.]
Video of Jay-Z on Glastonbury:
[More videos on BBC.co.uk.]
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