Glastonbury founder looks to new generation

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GLASTONBURY founder Michael Eavis has told of his plans to stand down from his organising role in 2011 to make way for a new generation.

Eavis said the handover to his daughter, Emily (29), was already under way and he expected two more full years at the helm.

The success of American rapper Jay–Z as the festival’s headline act last year was a triumph for Eavis’s daughter, despite being controversial. Eavis (73) said that that, despite his last festival being likely to be in 2011: “I still feel I have an important role to play.”