
The big draw for thousands of music-lovers at Glastonbury was the debut appearance of the Rolling Stones on Saturday evening. Organisers expected the festival's biggest ever audience for a single performer.

But other music luminaries took to the various stages at the Somerset farm site before the headline act. Elvis Costello performed his hits for fans.

The crowd are an eclectic mix, including many people in fancy-dress with accessories - such as a cut-out of an enthusiastic Queen.

From cardboard royalty to fashion royalty - model Kate Moss and fashion designer Stella McCartney were among the celebrities spotted at the festival.

Crowds and tents occupy the 900 acres of the site, with 430 tents per hectare. The sun shone on Saturday, after the traditional muddy conditions occurred in the days before.

Soul singer Laura Mvula welcomed the sun by breaking into a sing-along rendition of Bob Marley's One Love. She only released her debut album Sing To The Moon in March, and said she took to the main stage with a nervousness she had never experienced before.

Other performers on Saturday included Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie on the Pyramid Stage.

But for many people the music was not the only point of the event.

Finally, what they had all been waiting for, the Rolling Stones arrived on stage 10 minutes after they had been scheduled to start. The rock legends kicked off with the track Jumpin' Jack Flash.

It was the Stones' Glastonbury debut, 43 years after the festival first took place. "After all these years they finally got round to asking us," joked Mick Jagger.