The Glastonbury Festival is making headlines for controversy rather than music.

FILE - In this Friday, June 28, 2019 file photo, a general view of a sign on the third day of Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Somerset, England. This year, 2021, the Glastonbury Festival is going online. Organizers say they will stage a one-day livestreamed concert at Worthy Farm in southwest England, home to the annual music extravaganza. Glastonbury organizer Emily Eavis said the Live at Worthy Farm event would be like the festival but without people. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)LONDON – This year the Glastonbury Festival is going online.

FILE - In this Friday, June 24, 2011 file photo, the crowd at Glastonbury Music Festival clap their hands above their heads as they watch Chipmunk on stage, Glastonbury, England. Britains Glastonbury music festival has fallen victim to the coronavirus pandemic for the second year in a row, organizers Michael Eavis and Emily Eavis said Thursday Jan. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, File)LONDON – Britain’s Glastonbury music festival has fallen victim to the coronavirus pandemic for the second year in a row. They said everyone who had put down a deposit on tickets for the 2020 festival, which also was canceled, would be able to attend in 2022. The festival has been held almost annually since 1970, drawing up to 150,000 people to the Eavis’ Worthy Farm in southwest England.

Diana Ross performs onstage during the 61st Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center on Feb. 10, 2019, in Los Angeles. (CNN) - Diana Ross is to perform in the "legends slot" at Glastonbury 2020, it was announced Thursday, making the soul icon the first artist confirmed for the festival's 50th anniversary event. Previous acts who have taken this prestigious slot include Paul Simon, Lionel Richie, Dolly Parton and Kylie Minogue, who performed this year to a record-breaking audience. Glastonbury Festival announced the news on Twitter on Thursday morning. When Ross last performed live in the UK -- at Petworth Park in 2008 -- she famously reprimanded audience members for filming her on their cellphones.