Dolly Parton rewarded Glastonbury with a performance that surely calls for a redefinition of the word "crowdpleaser", • See all our Glastonbury 2014 coverage here, Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 12.56 GMT, Where and when: Pyramid stage, 4.20pm Sunday. She said it best herself: it was corny, but it was fun. VIDEO: Dolly Parton's 'Yakety Sax' Performance Will Make Your Day The 68-year-old legend drew a crowd of 100,000 at the Glastonbury music festival Dolly Parton rewarded Glastonbury with a performance that surely calls for a redefinition of the word "crowdpleaser" ... which she in turn exchanged for a rhinestone-studded saxophone… What happened: Converting an entire festival full of sinners is a thankless task, particularly on the final day of debauchery, but if anyone could bring Glastonbury-goers to the light with a well-timed “can I get an amen?”, it was Dolly Parton.

Billboard reports that, when the BBC broadcast Glastonbury, Parton’s segment got the highest ratings. Her set was broadcast on the BBC, prompting one British news presenter to suggest that she was lip-synching during the concert. There were bawdy vaudeville puns about “bad sax” and “safe singin’”, a rewriting of the Jolene history that offered her husband up to the hussy, since he’s getting a little grey behind the ears, and the old yarn about her modelling her look on “the town tramp, or whatever you call it”, which was no less fun for its familiarity.

Jolene – that bleak plea to the other woman and the reason for countless karaoke downfalls – saw the crowd gamely straining to join in. Corny, but fun … Dolly Parton thrills the crowd from the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury. To be clear: Dolly Parton won Glastonbury simply by showing up. In a tweet: Long live the queen of country. Open Mike Eagle – Anime Trauma And Divorce, Sturgill Simpson – Cuttin’ Grass Vol. Parton must be the only performer in the world who can pull that off. Parton’s fans – including Boy George and Stephen Fry – immediately Tweeted in her defense, and both Parton and her spokesperson have since denied that she was ever performing anything but 100 percent live. It felt as if every single one of the event’s 200,000 attendees had squeezed into the Pyramid arena to see the queen of country, and she rewarded them with a performance that surely calls for a redefinition of the word "crowdpleaser". “I know it was corny, but it was fun,” she hollered, capping the whole spectacle off with a yodel.

During her performance, Parton pulled out a saxophone and covered “Yakety Sax,” the theme for the old Benny Hill Show.

“I wanted to do something to impress you.”, The oversized audience – an estimated 100,000 people – erupted in cheers before she even played the first note of the familiar theme to The Benny Hill Show. Parton’s stage banter, which is as much of a draw as the music, lived up to its reputation. Dolly Parton had 200,000 people in the palm of her manicured, rhinestone-studded hand. Parton’s greatest-hits-packed performance reportedly drew the largest crowds of the three-day festival, but it was not without controversy. You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. Dolly Parton typically doesn’t show up to every single summer music festival, like many touring artists and bands do, but she did grace England’s Glastonbury Festival with her presence this year, and in doing so, won the hearts of hundreds of thousands of music fans. Coat of Many Colors and closer I Will Always Love You were simply, plainly delightful, while the upbeat classics – Baby I’m Burning (naturally, Parton’s gun fingers accompanied the “hot like a pistol” line) and 9 to 5 in particular – inspired sheer joy.

1 – The Butcher Shoppe Sessions, Dolly Parton Won Glastonbury With This “Yakety Sax” Cover. She did, after all, write us our own song. (And, if you ever watched Benny Hill, you know it’s not hard to imagine the late comic chasing Dolly around a park bench or an elaborately sculpted hedge while that frenzied instrumental plays in the background.). Introducing ... PEOPLE's Products Worth the Hype. She also figured out a way to pay tribute to her host country in the most adorable way imaginable, while going viral in the process. Bon Jovi’s Richie Sambora turned up to noodle over a gospel version of Lay Your Hands on Me. Also, it’s not in the video below, but I have it on good authority that Parton claimed to be “feelin’ a little saxy” before she pulled the instrument out.

Coyote Ugly Turns 20: Where Is the Cast Now? ), she strutted across every inch of the stage, cheering, hollering and clapping, leading the enraptured audience of more than a few impersonators through a solid hour of clap-alongs and sing-alongs. “My boobs are fake, my hair’s fake, but what’s real is my voice and my heart,” she told The Sun. Photograph: Gary Calton for the Guardian, See all our Glastonbury 2014 coverage here. The 68-year-old country music legend is not the type to show up at every festival … If you would like to opt out of browser push notifications, please refer to the following instructions specific to your device and browser: VIDEO: Dolly Parton's 'Yakety Sax' Performance Will Make Your Day. As the sun briefly glistened on that infamous peroxide wig, there were moments of incredible beauty. Watch the performance below.

Parton invented a song for Glastonbury especially, rapping about the mud – “we won’t let it ruin our high” – as the arena chanted “mud, mud, mud” with a surprisingly musical ear right back at her. And as she coyly wondered aloud for the umpteenth time if we could possibly know the words to this or that stone-cold classic, it didn’t matter that she had said it before. In fact, she was so wonderfully entertaining that when the big screen cut out for a mere fraction of a second, the entire arena gasped, as if to say: "Don’t you dare take her away from us.".

Photo Courtesy of the guardian.com. The 68-year-old legend drew a crowd of 100,000 at the Glastonbury music festival. Text us for exclusive photos and videos, royal news, and way more. Dress code: Rhinestones, more rhinestones, and an extra sprinkling of rhinestones. Get push notifications with news, features and more. It was awesome. But really, this was for and about the crowd. High point: Islands in the Stream got everyone swaying as one, and today’s Kenny Rogers substitute, "Richard", had more than enough gruff country beard to go around. And that’s why – after all these years – Dolly is still as “saxy” and real as it gets. But it wasn’t all sublimely preposterous.

OK, you should probably just get ready to call it a day. It was, of course, completely ridiculous.

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The 68-year-old country music legend is not the type to show up at every festival every summer, but she blessed the UK’s biggest one with her presence this past weekend. In a white, rhinestone-studded trouser suit (was that a glittery sporran at the front? Go ahead and pull your car keys out of your pocket and move your cursor toward the ‘shut down’ prompt on your computer screen, because this video is going to be the high point of today, if not your life: After you’ve watched Dolly Parton play “Yakety Sax” on a tiny rhinestone-encrusted saxophone, there’s literally nothing left for you to accomplish.

“I was feeling rather saxy today,” the 68-year-old singer told the massive crowd at the Glastonbury Music Festival on Sunday. However, topping even those moments for sheer absurdity was a hoedown that began with her playing the banjo, which she then swapped for a fiddle – which she in turn exchanged for a rhinestone-studded saxophone, using that to play the Benny Hill theme tune not once, but twice (her band challenged her to "play it backwards", which she did, by turning her back to the crowd).