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.


