In 1993, Californian jazz, funk and soul legend Roy Ayers played at Glastonbury and performed an extended version of his signature 1976 track Everybody Loves the Sunshine just as Worthy Farm was being bathed in glorious rays. Those few minutes still end up on lists of the greatest ever Glastonbury moments and it’s an honour to have Ayers back this year playing songs from a catalogue that stretches all the way back to 1963. He’s seen it all, releasing perhaps the best Blaxploitation film soundtrack, Coffy, in 1973, working with afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti in 1980, playing on Whitney Houston’s Love Will Save The Day, before becoming one of the most-sampled artists ever by hip hop producers.
To find out more about a musician who counts Pharrell and Tyler, The Creator among his legions of fans, check the 2004 Gilles Peterson interview on Ayers’s Â鶹ԼÅÄ Music artist page. And don’t worry about the weather at Glastonbury this year - when Ayers plays there’s always sunshine.
In 1993, Californian jazz, funk and soul legend Roy Ayers played at Glastonbury and performed an extended version of his signature 1976 track Everybody Loves the Sunshine just as Worthy Farm was being bathed in glorious rays. Those few minutes still end up on lists of the greatest ever Glastonbury moments and it’s an honour to have Ayers back this year playing songs from a catalogue that stretches all the way back to 1963. He’s seen it all, releasing perhaps the best Blaxploitation film soundtrack, Coffy, in 1973, working with afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti in 1980, playing on Whitney Houston’s Love Will Save The Day, before becoming one of the most-sampled artists ever by hip hop producers.
To find out more about a musician who counts Pharrell and Tyler, The Creator among his legions of fans, check the 2004 Gilles Peterson interview on Ayers’s Â鶹ԼÅÄ Music artist page. And don’t worry about the weather at Glastonbury this year - when Ayers plays there’s always sunshine.
