Glastonbury Festival 1987


Glastonbury CND Festival 1987 tickets cost £21 and 60,000 attended.
The local council had initially declined the farm a licence. The decision was overturned in court the month before. 1987 saw the introduction of the Womad stage to the Festival. The 1987 line-up included Elvis Costello, Robert Cray, New Order, Paul Brady, Michelle Shocked and Van Morrison.
During the early 1980s Michael Eavis was involved in establishing a local branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and subsequently agreed to make the Glastonbury Festival a fundraiser for CND, as it was from 1981 to 1987. In £130,000 was raised for CND and local charities.