Mumford and Sons Close a Memorable Glastonbury 2013

Glastonbury music festival ended last night after 3 days of live music, huge crowds and (unusually) pretty good weather.

British folk band Mumford and Sons closed this year's festival, headlining the main stage last night. In their typically energetic style they got the crowd dancing throughout their set, before ending with a unique rendition of the classic Beatles song ‘With a Little Help from my Friends'. Fittingly, they got a number of other performers to join them on stage for the final song, including Vampire Weekend, The Vaccines and The Staves- you can watch it below.

However, for many, the highlight of the weekend will have come on Saturday night, when the Rolling Stones headlined the main stage. Amazingly it was the first time they had played the festival and Glastonbury head Michael Eavis called it "the high spot of 43 years of Glastonbury. They finally did it, and it was fantastic. My God, did they deliver".

The legendary rock band got overwhelmingly positive reviews for their performance, with the song ‘Sympathy for the Devil' a high point which you can watch below.

Whilst the Stones were wowing crowds on the main stage, another legendary group drew equally excited fans to the West Holts Stage. Public Enemy are one of the seminal rap groups of all time, and based on their performance, they know it. You can get a taste of it in the video of ‘Don't Believe the Hype' below.

Another unexpected highlight of this year's Glastonbury came on Sunday when Sir Bruce Forsyth made an appearance. The 85-year-old entertainer appeared on the Avalon Stage to the Strictly Come Dancing theme before playing a set of music hall standards. He proved so popular that security had to shut down the Avalon field for 20 minutes, with thousands of fans still trying to get a view of him.

Bruce Forsyth entertains the crowds at Glastonbury

Glastonbury is the largest music festival in the world, and after having a year off in 2012, this year's 180,000 tickets sold out in a record 1 hour 40 minutes. Set on a farm in the west of England county of Somerset, the site is 900 acres and the festival perimeter is 8.5 miles long.

Unless you visit, it is hard to get an idea of the sheer scale of it, but this aerial photo starts to show you.

Glastonbury from the air

For much more on this year's festival, the BBC website has a brilliant section with hundreds of videos of live performances and interviews. Have a look here.

Did you go to this year's Glastonbury? What was your highlight? Let us know below.

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