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To mark what would have been the Glastonbury weekend the 大象传媒 is bringing you The Glastonbury Experience featuring over 100 archive performances available to watch on 大象传媒 iPlayer or listen to on 大象传媒 Sounds and a dedicated channel showing nothing but great performances from the Glastonbury archives from Thursday 25th to Monday 29th June.

You can get planning your Glastonbury viewing with our handy schedule but to get you started we've picked out a handful of artists appearing today who are not to be missed.

Friday of Glastonbury weekend is the time the party properly gets started, and you can recreate that festival feeling at home with some great classic performances airing today - from Billie Eilish to Beyoncé and more.

Here are our picks for Friday's action...

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2014 saw a Glastonbury crowd in need of sonic transportation as the Worthy Farm greenery turned to mud and the heavens opened above. And who better to provide that escapist soundtrack than Lana Del Rey, whose retro Americana-pop captures all the sunny, blurriness of California summers but with the gritty noir of classic Hollywood glamour sprinkled on top. Having just released Ultraviolence, the follow-up to her breakthrough major label debut Born To Die, Lana's Pyramid Stage set was like witnessing the birth of a modern music icon.

• Watch Lana Del Rey's Glastonbury 2014 set on the Glastonbury iPlayer Channel from 10am

Occasionally, a Glastonbury performance captures an artist right at the perfect time, just as they're making that leap to superstardom. That's exactly what happened with Billie Eilish in 2019. The genre-blurring teen star had already made history a few months earlier by becoming the youngest female artist to have a UK No.1 album and the first artist born in the 21st century to top the albums chart in the US. Her growing fame earned her a last-minute bump up to The Other Stage and she duly delivered on the increasing hype, bounding across the stage with confidence and purpose as she delivered her booming bass-heavy pop.

• Watch Billie Eilish's Glastonbury 2019 set on the Glastonbury iPlayer Channel from 3pm

Closing the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury is a daunting task, especially in a year like 2011, which saw Glasto headlined by rock veterans U2 on the Friday and Glastonbury mainstays Coldplay on the Saturday. But most performers aren't Beyoncé, who served up fireworks, showstopping choreography and more hits than you can count - both solo and Destiny's Child ones, plus covers of Alanis Morrisette, Kings Of Leon and Etta James. This was a generation-defining performer delivering a masterclass of a headline set.

• Watch Beyoncé's Glastonbury 2011 set on the Glastonbury iPlayer Channel from 10.00pm

Glastonbury headliners are always going to be divisive. You can't, after all, please everyone. But the announcement of JAY-Z's Pyramid Stage headlining set in 2008 angered one famous figure in particularly, namely Noel Gallagher. The Oasis man labelled the New York rapper as "wrong" for the festival, arguing that Glasto was "built on a tradition of guitar music" rather than hip-hop. JAY's response? To open his with a tongue-in-cheek cover of Wonderwall before launching into 99 Problems. And with that, he proved his doubters wrong and produced one of Glastonbury's most memorable moments.

• Watch JAY-Z's Glastonbury 2008 set on the Glastonbury iPlayer Channel from 11.30pm

Friday night at Glastonbury is the prime time for partying. The festival is still in its infancy and you got all the energy in the world. Now while this Glasto weekend isn't what you've usually come to expect, it doesn't mean you still can't get into the party spirit of things for our Glastonbury Experience celebrations. This 2014 set from Disclosure will be sure to get you moving into the early hours of Saturday.

• Watch Disclosure's Glastonbury 2014 set on the Glastonbury iPlayer Channel from 12.30am