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- This year was a muddy year with lots of bad weather. In fact, the highest rainfall for a single day in 45 years was recorded on the Friday but it was also the year of the first laser show backed by Tubeway Army’s “Are friends electric?”.
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History 1982 Again, there was CND involvement and it was this year that Western Region CND took control of the entrance gates and Mid Somerset CND took charge of all the information. This year was a muddy year with lots of bad weather.
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If 1981 was the year that saw Michael Eavis prove that Glastonbury could be a financial success , then 1982 was the year when the festival really began to establish itself as a major event on the UK festival calendar. It wasn't purely a numbers game, the number of attendees increased by only 7,000 or so, a rise of about 25%, but nothing ...
Brian Jones, 1982. "In 1982, West Region CND took on all the “gate and traffic” work on site; Sometimes we'd be staffing the perimeter vehicle or pedestrian entrances, sometimes we'd be controlling gates within the site, only allowing through vehicles with the correct passes.
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