The designer of Glastonbury’s world-famous Pyramid Stage has died at the age of 83, the festival’s founder said (Aaron Chown/PA)The designer of Glastonbury’s world-famous Pyramid Stage has died at the age of 83, the festival’s founder said. Bill Harkin, who worked as an architect for British Leyland, came up with the idea for the structure after seeing it in a dream. Harkin arrived at Glastonbury late the previous year while delivering products to health shops in the area. It was after “more intense discussions these conversations led to the idea of a large music festival with a Pyramid as centre stage,” the founder said. The Pyramid Stage returned in 2000, described on the festival’s website as being four times the size of the original and “100 feet high and clad in dazzling silver”.

Source: Irish Independent March 11, 2021 04:18 UTC