Sound of silence opens UK's Glastonbury before Manchester classics fill the 無効の

By Paul Sandle

GLASTONBURY, England, June 23 (Reuters) - Britain's Glastonbury Festival fell silent for a minute on Friday in memory of 最近の terror attacks and the 破滅的な Grenfell Tower 解雇する/砲火/射撃, before Hacienda Classical 緩和するd revellers into the first day of music at the world's biggest greenfield festival.

Peter Hook, the bass player from Manchester 禁止(する)d Joy 分割 and New Order, led the (人が)群がる on the main Pyramid 行う/開催する/段階 in 反映するing on "our hopes and our 祈りs for life, love and freedom, the things we are here to celebrate".

"Glasto", as it is affectionately known, is headlined later on Friday by Radiohead who 20 years ago 成し遂げるd during one of the wettest years in the festival's history, 解除するing a sodden (人が)群がる with music from their groundbreaking album "承認する Computer".

Featuring songs about alienation, capitalism and the 衝撃 of modern 科学(工学)技術, "承認する Computer" sounds oddly prescient in a 政治上 divided and anxious Britain in 2017.

安全 has been stepped up at Worthy Farm in Somerset, south-west England, after a 自殺 爆破 at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester killed 22 last month and three 最近の attacks in London.

Festival-goers took the extra checks in their stride, more 関心d about 対処するing with the hottest June for four 10年間s which slowed activity on 場所/位置 to a はう.

気温s 冷静な/正味のd on Friday, the first day of music in which the standout is English 禁止(する)d Radiohead in a third headline 外見.

"I am loving the 天候. It's perfect Glasto 天候," said 23-year-old Laura Cottam in the Hacienda Classical (人が)群がる. She said she spent Wednesday looking for shade and 冷淡な beer after arriving as soon as the gates opened.

An ありそうもない marriage between DJs Graeme Park and マイク Pickering and Manchester Camerata Orchestra, Hacienda Classical entertained with 床に打ち倒す-fillers from the 80s and 90s, 含むing Ultra Nate's "解放する/自由な" and New Order's "Blue Monday".

The af ternoon line-up on the biggest of more than 12 行う/開催する/段階s 含むs 81-year Kris Kristofferson, 激しく揺する 二人組 王室の 血, which only formed in 2013, and the English indie 禁止(する)d, the xx, before the 高度に 心配するd return of Radiohead.

Fans 推定する/予想するd "承認する Computer" to feature ひどく in the 始める,決める 名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる) on Friday, the same day as a re-解放(する) of the album with 跡をつけるs that did not make the 削減(する) 20 years ago, called "承認する Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017".

Chris Glackin from Surrey, who was eight when the album was 解放(する)d, was looking 今後 to the gig.

"I have grown up my whole life listening to them with my old man, he's never seen them live (...) so I am definitely going to go and see them live," he said. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Paul Sandle; Editing by Elisabeth O'Leary and Richard Balmforth)

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