Glastonbury To Be Best Yet?

Jay-Z is responsible for this year's Glastonbury festival.

Organiser Emily Eavis claims the annual music event has the strongest-ever line-up – believed to include Bruce Springsteen, Blur, Neil Young and Lily Allen - and credits the hip hop star's controversial appearance last year for generating more interest from artists wanting to take to the stage in Somerset, England, this June.

Emily said: "We have got the best possible line-up that we could get this year and I think Jay-Z, we've got a lot to thank him for, because we've never had so many bands wanting to play."

Emily also revealed details of next year's festival, saying they hope to have a bill made up of artists from 1970 onwards to mark the music event's 40th anniversary.

She added to BBC 6 Music: "We're talking to lots of bands at the moment about that. We want to have a band from every year on the Pyramid Stage over the weekend," she explained.

"And we'll have a lot of the biggest performances on some of the tiniest stages, so we're gonna do something really special for our 40th anniversary."

Tickets for this year's event, which takes place on June 26-28, have already sold out.