Once a year people from around the world gather at Glastonbury to stomp in the mud, watch famous musicians and light up their social media feeds with cool hashtags.

This year was no different – some of the bigger acts included Adele, Coldplay, Beck, Muse and too many others to mention (see the line-up HERE).

As the dust settles on another Glastonbury the BBC compiled a list of the top 14 things they learned, and we’ve picked our favourites below:

1) THE FLAGS WERE FANTASTIC

There’s a fine tradition of crafting flags to bring to Glastonbury and this year, the designers surpassed themselves.

Flaggy McFlagface became a minor celebrity on Twitter. But this effort was our favourite.

3) JUST WHEN YOU THINK IT CAN’T GET ANY MORE MUDDY…

[It] came as a terrible shock to Earth, Wind and Fire – who closed the West Holts stage with the grooviest set of the entire weekend.

“We didn’t know it was going to be mud-ville,” groaned Philip Bailey.

“I haven’t had a pair of boots on in many, many years. You don’t have to wear these in Los Angeles.”

Welcome to our world, Philip. Welcome to our world.

5) EVERYONE REMEMBERED PRINCE AND DAVID BOWIE

It used to be Glastonbury tradition that, on Friday night, a rumour would circulate that David Bowie was going to be playing a surprise set. For definite. And Prince was coming too.

This year, those rumours were laid to rest, for all-too-tragic reasons.

8) ZZ TOP HAVE A STRICT BEARD ETIQUETTE

Recreating a classic Smash Hits question, we asked ZZ Top whether they slept with their beards over or under the sheets.

“Well it depends on the evening,” replied Billy Gibbons. “If you’ve had a nice, charming evening out for dining, the good chance is that the leftover food will not be present in your beard. That way, you can put the beard under the covers. On the other, unforeseen, nights it might have to stay out.”

10) BECK WANTS TO LAUNCH HIS OWN FRAGRANCE

In an attempt to compete with Beyonce and Britney Spears, Beck has decided to launch his own eau de toilette.

He will call it “Ether” and it will “smell of nothing”.

12) ROMANCE WAS IN THE AIR

There were proposals in the crowd during Adele and James Blake’s sets on Saturday night; while Gregory Porter helped Tom and Zoe – two of his crew members – with a proposal on the Pyramid Stage.

As Porter explained: “Tom came to me and said, ‘I’m going to propose,’ and I said, ‘she can’t say no on the Glastonbury stage.'”

After Zoe said “yes”, Porter serenaded the couple with Real Good Hands – a song he wrote about proposing to his own wife.

You can go ahead and take a look at their full list HERE.

That line-up makes our Rocking The Daisies look a little average, right?

[source:bbc]