Kylie Minogue performs at Glastonbury Festival.
Camera IconKylie Minogue performs at Glastonbury Festival. Credit: Supplied/Getty Images

Kylie sparkles, thrills Glastonbury crowd

AAPWestern Suburbs Weekly

KYLIE Minogue delighted a huge crowd at Glastonbury with hits including Spinning Around, Shocked and Better the Devil You Know, 14 years after illness forced her to cancel a headline performance at the festival.

Kylie, as she is universally known, played all the catchy disco pop hits that the audience had come to hear, from I Should Be So Lucky, her breakthrough 1988 worldwide No.1, to the 2010 release All the Lovers.

Minogue was due to headline Glastonbury, the world’s largest greenfield festival, in 2005 but was forced to pull out after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

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Kylie Minogue and Chris Martin perform at Glastonbury Festival. Ian Gavan/Getty Images
Camera IconKylie Minogue and Chris Martin perform at Glastonbury Festival. Ian Gavan/Getty Images Credit: Supplied/Getty Images
Festival goers hold up roses as Kylie Minogue performs at Glastonbury Festival. Ian Gavan/Getty Images
Camera IconFestival goers hold up roses as Kylie Minogue performs at Glastonbury Festival. Ian Gavan/Getty Images Credit: Supplied/Getty Images

“I wished things were different but life is what it is,” she said, chocking back tears of emotion. “We’re all here together in this moment.”

She said some of the artists in 2005 had covered her songs, and she welcomed on stage one of them, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, to join her in performing Can’t Get You Out of My Head.

The gig changed gear midway when the 51-year-old was joined by previous collaborator Nick Cave for the murder-themed ballad Where the Wild Roses Grow.

Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave perform at Glastonbury Festival. Ian Gavan/Getty Images
Camera IconKylie Minogue and Nick Cave perform at Glastonbury Festival. Ian Gavan/Getty Images Credit: Supplied/Getty Images
Kylie Minogue performs on the Pyramid stage on day five of Glastonbury Festival. Ian Gavan/Getty Images
Camera IconKylie Minogue performs on the Pyramid stage on day five of Glastonbury Festival. Ian Gavan/Getty Images Credit: Supplied/Getty Images

But the serious interlude was brief in a show that featured a blast of rainbow Pride confetti, four costume changes, and mass singalongs from the sun-bathed capacity crowd, including for the Spinning Around finale.

Minogue was followed by US singer Miley Cyrus, who opened with Nothing Breaks Like a Heart, her collaboration with Mark Ronson, who joined her on stage.

Kylie Minogue performs at Glastonbury Festival. Ian Gavan/Getty Images
Camera IconKylie Minogue performs at Glastonbury Festival. Ian Gavan/Getty Images Credit: Supplied/Getty Images
Kylie Minogue performs at Glastonbury Festival. Ian Gavan/Getty Images
Camera IconKylie Minogue performs at Glastonbury Festival. Ian Gavan/Getty Images Credit: Supplied/Getty Images

Her father Billy Ray Cyrus also appeared during the show, performing Old Town Road with rapper Lil Nas X.

US rock band Vampire Weekend will play the main Pyramid Stage later on Sunday before British goth rock band the Cure close the festival.

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