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== Personal life == |
== Personal life == |
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Eavis was born in [[Pilton, Somerset]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bandcstaffregister.co.uk/page3334.html |title=Michael Eavis |access-date=8 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210181714/http://www.bandcstaffregister.co.uk/page3334.html |archive-date=10 December 2015}}</ref> on 17 October 1935,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Eavis News {{!}} Photos {{!}} Quotes {{!}} Video {{!}} Wiki - UPI.com |url=https://www.upi.com/topic/Michael_Eavis/ |access-date=25 June 2023 |website=UPI |language=en}}</ref> and grew up at Worthy Farm in the village. His father was a [[Methodist]] [[local preacher]], and his mother a school teacher. Eavis was educated at [[Wells Cathedral School]], followed by the [[Thames Nautical Training College]] in [[Greenhithe, Kent]], after which he joined the [[Union-Castle Line]], part of the [[British Merchant Navy]], as a trainee [[midshipman]]. His plan was to spend twenty years at sea, and return with a pension to help subsidise the income from the family farm. |
Eavis was born in [[Pilton, Somerset]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bandcstaffregister.co.uk/page3334.html |title=Michael Eavis |access-date=8 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210181714/http://www.bandcstaffregister.co.uk/page3334.html |archive-date=10 December 2015}}</ref> on 17 October 1935,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Eavis News {{!}} Photos {{!}} Quotes {{!}} Video {{!}} Wiki - UPI.com |url=https://www.upi.com/topic/Michael_Eavis/ |access-date=25 June 2023 |website=UPI |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Groome |first=Imogen |date=14 June 2017 |title=Who is the founder of Glastonbury Festival? 17 facts about how it all began |url=https://metro.co.uk/2017/06/14/who-is-the-founder-of-glastonbury-festival-17-facts-about-how-it-all-began-6709135/ |access-date=25 June 2023 |website=Metro |language=en}}</ref> and grew up at Worthy Farm in the village. His father was a [[Methodist]] [[local preacher]], and his mother a school teacher. Eavis was educated at [[Wells Cathedral School]], followed by the [[Thames Nautical Training College]] in [[Greenhithe, Kent]], after which he joined the [[Union-Castle Line]], part of the [[British Merchant Navy]], as a trainee [[midshipman]]. His plan was to spend twenty years at sea, and return with a pension to help subsidise the income from the family farm. |
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After his father died when Eavis was 19, he inherited the family farm of {{convert|150|acre|ha}} and 60 cows.<ref name="Smith">{{cite news|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/glastonbury2005/story/0,,1509864,00.html|title=Far-out man|last=Smith |first=David|work=The Guardian|date=19 June 2005|access-date=28 June 2008 | location=London|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305225705/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/jun/19/popandrock.glastonbury2005|archive-date=5 March 2014}}</ref> He worked at Mendip Colliery at [[Nettlebridge]] or New Rock colliery at [[Stratton-on-the-Fosse]] on the [[Somerset Coalfield]] for a couple of years to help supplement the income from the farm.<ref name=benson>{{cite news|last1=Benson|first1=Richard|title='Why haven't you booked me for the Pyramid stage?': Michael Eavis answers famous festivalgoers' questions|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/22/michael-eavis-glastonbury-questions-jarvis-cocker-john-humphrys-kelis|access-date=23 June 2014|work=The Guardian|date=22 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Norbury|first1=Suzanne|title=Glastonbury Festival's Michael Eavis joins former coal miners in Radstock|url=http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/glastonbury-festival-s-michael-eavis-joins-former-coal-miners-in-radstock-pictures/story-29689606-detail/story.html|access-date=6 September 2016|work=Somerset Live|date=6 September 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907154644/http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/glastonbury-festival-s-michael-eavis-joins-former-coal-miners-in-radstock-pictures/story-29689606-detail/story.html|archive-date=7 September 2016}}</ref> |
After his father died when Eavis was 19, he inherited the family farm of {{convert|150|acre|ha}} and 60 cows.<ref name="Smith">{{cite news|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/glastonbury2005/story/0,,1509864,00.html|title=Far-out man|last=Smith |first=David|work=The Guardian|date=19 June 2005|access-date=28 June 2008 | location=London|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305225705/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/jun/19/popandrock.glastonbury2005|archive-date=5 March 2014}}</ref> He worked at Mendip Colliery at [[Nettlebridge]] or New Rock colliery at [[Stratton-on-the-Fosse]] on the [[Somerset Coalfield]] for a couple of years to help supplement the income from the farm.<ref name=benson>{{cite news|last1=Benson|first1=Richard|title='Why haven't you booked me for the Pyramid stage?': Michael Eavis answers famous festivalgoers' questions|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/22/michael-eavis-glastonbury-questions-jarvis-cocker-john-humphrys-kelis|access-date=23 June 2014|work=The Guardian|date=22 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Norbury|first1=Suzanne|title=Glastonbury Festival's Michael Eavis joins former coal miners in Radstock|url=http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/glastonbury-festival-s-michael-eavis-joins-former-coal-miners-in-radstock-pictures/story-29689606-detail/story.html|access-date=6 September 2016|work=Somerset Live|date=6 September 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907154644/http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/glastonbury-festival-s-michael-eavis-joins-former-coal-miners-in-radstock-pictures/story-29689606-detail/story.html|archive-date=7 September 2016}}</ref> |
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In 2010, [[Glastonbury Festival 2010|the festival's 40th year]], he appeared on the main stage at the festival with headline artist [[Stevie Wonder]], to sing the chorus of the latter's "[[Happy Birthday (Stevie Wonder song)|Happy Birthday]]". |
In 2010, [[Glastonbury Festival 2010|the festival's 40th year]], he appeared on the main stage at the festival with headline artist [[Stevie Wonder]], to sing the chorus of the latter's "[[Happy Birthday (Stevie Wonder song)|Happy Birthday]]". |
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At the [[Glastonbury Festival 2016]], at the age of 8o, he accompanied [[Coldplay]] on stage in a rendition of "[[My Way]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/27/did-michael-eavis-just-announce-his-retirement-by-singing-frank-sinatras-my-way-at-the-end-of-glastonbury-5968388/|title=People are worried Michael Eavis just retired after singing My Way at Glatonbury|last=Duncan|first=Amy|date=27 June 2016|work=Metro}}</ref> |
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