Glastonbury is echoing to the sounds of folk-rock group Mumford and Sons, who closed the 2013 festival with their first-ever headline performance there.
"We came for a party," said frontman Marcus Mumford, as the band triggered a mass hoedown on Somerset's Worthy Farm.
An estimated 80,000 people watched the set. When they first played the festival in 2008, only 200 turned up.
The 90-minute performance ended with an all-star cover of A Little Help From My Friends.
This featured Vampire Weekend, The Vaccines and The Staves.
Earlier songs, including The Cave and I Will Wait - their only UK top 20 hit - saw the audience bounce in unison from the front of the Pyramid Stage to end of the fields.
The show caps the band's meteoric rise from west London to the global stage, with multiple Grammy awards, US album sales of four million and appearances with Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
Mumford, 26, said he felt the band had done "nothing special" to earn the prestigious Glastonbury slot, and put their success down to the audience.
But the band's otherwise ebullient set embodied the Glastonbury spirit - generous, warm-hearted and inclusive.
It carried further emotional weight as it marked the band's return to the stage after bass player Ted Dwane had surgery for a blood clot on his brain this month.
They said they would have pulled out of the headline slot if their 28-year-old bass player had not made a full recovery.
"Was the show ever in doubt? I think it's fair to say it was," keyboard player Ben Lovett told the BBC.
"Nothing was more important than Ted's health," said Lovett.
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