This year’s Glastonbury has so far featured Florence and the Machine covering Foo Fighters and Kanye West delivering an unexpected “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Yet, Patti Smith may be responsible for the fest’s biggest surprise. During Smith’s Pyramid Stage set, the Horses singer brought out the Dalai Lama himself so that festivalgoers could wish His Holiness a happy 80th birthday.
Remarking on the appearance of Smith and her band, the Dalai Lama quipped, “Those singers, musicians, most of you [have] white hair, but their voice and their physical action, they look very beautiful, very forceful. Myself now 80 years old, but I should be more like you – more active.”
