Michael Eavis, MIA and AR Rahman are amongst the high profile types who have made it on to Time magazine's 2009 list of the world's most influential people.
As you may know, each person on the list gets a citation written by a fellow celebrity. Coldplay's Chris Martin wrote one for the Glastonbury founder, saying: "Michael is one of the people to whom I owe my life and career. Every year he does a thank-you for the surrounding village where the festival takes place. He asked Coldplay to play this little fete and picked us up at the airport. It was like being met by a friendly uncle. We were sitting in the back of his farm vehicle that smelled of cheese and cattle when he said 'Maybe you'd want to headline next year?' We spat out our drinks! It remains the biggest event in our band's life. It changed everything. We've headlined other festivals, but Glastonbury is the only one that feels like - and is - a family event. It's also the only one where we received some handmade cheese as a thank-you".
Other music types wrote on non-music entries on the list; Bono did a piece on George Clooney, Lou Reed wrote about artist William Kentridge, and Rick Astley did the piece about 'moot', the young chap who created the hugely popular website 4chan.org, which spawned the rickrolling phenomenon.