So, despite the slow ticket sales and speculation it had "lost it", Glastonbury 2008 seems to have been a success, partly because the sun, in the main, shined, and partly because Jay-Z proved the idiots who said he wasn't Glasto headline material completely wrong with a storming Saturday night performance - kicked off with a nod to the biggest idiot with regards Jay-Z commentary, Noel Gallagher, who said a hip hop headliner at Glasto was "wrong". Mr Z started his show by walking on to 'Wonderwall'.
Another Glasto headliner made reference to those who doubted their ability to fill a headline slot - though the doubter in question that time wasn't a Gallagher for Glasto supremo Michael Eavis himself. Noting that his band had been booked by Glasto co-organiser Emily Eavis, rather than her doubting father, The Verve's frontman Richard Ashcroft quipped during his band's finale headline set: "I want to thank Emily Eavis for inviting us to play Glastonbury. And I hope her dad realises why she booked us now".