GLASTONBURY will have a distinctly Dartford feel this year when the Rolling Stones rock up.
The music legends have agreed to headline the performing arts festival in Somerset for the first time, it was announced yesterday.
Frontman Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards famously bumped into each other at Dartford station in 1960 and struck up a friendship which lead to the formation of the group two years later.
They had both been pupils together years before at Wentworth Primary School in Wentworth Drive before Jagger went on to Dartford Grammar on West Hill while Richards was at Dartford Technical School in Wilmington.
The Stones played a series of 50th anniversary concerts late last year at the O2 in Greenwich.
Glastonbury runs from June 26 to 30 at its Worthy Farm site.
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