(CNN) -- Now in its 37th year, the Glastonbury festival has built a reputation as the mother of all music festivals, with the biggest names in rock music gladly accepting invitations to play the Pyramid stage year after year. Yet for all their combined wealth and fame, it is festival's organizer who remains the true star of Glastonbury. Festival guru Michael Eavis is, by his own admission, "a bit of a puritan." Michael Eavis is the one of the most un-rock and roll people you are ever likely to meet. By his own admission he is "a bit of a Puritan". He worships, with his 95 year-old mum, Sheila, at the local Methodist chapel every Sunday, and abhors drink and drugs and smoking. Yet his twin passions for music and people inspired him to start what would grow into Britain's foremost music festival.
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Eavis, who abhors drink and drugs, has hosted the festival since 1970
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Charities such as Oxfam and Greenpeace have had Glastonbury donations
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Since 2002 the festival was ringed by a metal fence
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A record-breaking 180,000 people attended the 2007 event
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