Video: Beyoncé’s 2011 Glastonbury Set Made History and Still Ranks Among the Festival’s Greatest Nights

On June 26, 2011, Beyoncé took the Pyramid Stage and became the first solo Black woman to headline Glastonbury Festival, delivering a 90-minute spectacle in front of over 175,000 people that broke television viewing records and generated universal critical acclaim. Backed by her all-female band, she opened with “Crazy in Love,” moved through “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” and “Halo,” introduced tracks from her then-new album ‘4’, and covered Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know” and Kings of Leon’s “Sex on Fire” with the kind of command that made a massive festival crowd feel like an intimate room. More than a decade later, it remains the benchmark for what a Glastonbury headline set can be.