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A beautiful moment on the Pyramid Stage as Brandi Carlile plays You Without Me – a song about the bittersweet experience of a parent watching their child grow up and assert their independence; and the wrench of letting go.

It’s one of the songs she wrote for her recent duets album with Elton John, who’s been singing its praises ever since.

“Every time I play the album to people, they say, ‘Play that one again’,” he wrote on his official website.

“They are just so moved by the sentiments of that song.

“And it is exactly the same as what David [Furnish] and I are going through as well, because our elder son went to boarding school and we took him down and had lunch with him and I came home and I just burst into tears.

“David said, ‘What on earth is wrong?’ I said, ‘I’ve lost my boy. I love him so much as a little man, but I’ll never see that little boy again.’”

There are few parents in the audience getting weepy as they experience those same emotions. I’m not ashamed to say I’m one of them.

As the song finishes, Carlile thanks the crowd for their attention.“Only at Glastonbury could I get away with playing a solo ballad in the middle of the afternoon. Everything they say about you is true.”