It was, of course, completely ridiculous. 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 Introducing ... PEOPLE's Products Worth the Hype. Photo Courtesy of the guardian.com. You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. Billboard reports that, when the BBC broadcast Glastonbury, Parton’s segment got the highest ratings. Dress code: Rhinestones, more rhinestones, and an extra sprinkling of rhinestones. 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. Parton must be the only performer in the world who can pull that off. (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.). Text us for exclusive photos and videos, royal news, and way more. 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. Coyote Ugly Turns 20: Where Is the Cast Now? Corny, but fun … Dolly Parton thrills the crowd from the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury. She said it best herself: it was corny, but it was fun. The 68-year-old country music legend is not the type to show up at every festival … 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. Photograph: Gary Calton for the Guardian, See all our Glastonbury 2014 coverage here. 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. Her set was broadcast on the BBC, prompting one British news presenter to suggest that she was lip-synching during the concert. Bon Jovi’s Richie Sambora turned up to noodle over a gospel version of Lay Your Hands on Me. She did, after all, write us our own song. Nothing says a family vacation like an RV, Princess Diana died when Harry was just 12 years old, It's looked — and felt — like a whole different world as we've been social distancing and attempting to keep each other safe, See All the Celebs Taking RV Trips This Summer, The Sweetest Photos of Princes Harry with Diana, From Empty Streets to Virtual Weddings: What Life Has Looked Like During the Coronavirus Pandemic. Watch the performance below. In a tweet: Long live the queen of country. 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). 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.". OK, you should probably just get ready to call it a day. ), 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. During her performance, Parton pulled out a saxophone and covered “Yakety Sax,” the theme for the old Benny Hill Show. It was awesome. Parton’s stage banter, which is as much of a draw as the music, lived up to its reputation. But it wasn’t all sublimely preposterous. 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 know it was corny, but it was fun,” she hollered, capping the whole spectacle off with a yodel. And that’s why – after all these years – Dolly is still as “saxy” and real as it gets. 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… 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. “My boobs are fake, my hair’s fake, but what’s real is my voice and my heart,” she told The Sun. But really, this was for and about the crowd. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. 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. 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. The 68-year-old legend drew a crowd of 100,000 at the Glastonbury music festival. 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.