The signs were bad. From day one of the 1998 --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- Glastonbury Festival, it had poured with rain. --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- Rather than whooping it up, revellers were being --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- carted off with sprains and breaks after slipping --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- in the mud. --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- Robbie was terrified of going on: he knew that --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- while a trusty Glastonbury favourite might perk up --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- the crowd, there was every chance his own slot --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- could go down disastrously. Hell, there might not --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- even be a crowd. --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- The last time Robbie had been to Glastonbury was --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- in 1995. After stuffing a load of champagne in the --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- back of a borrowed Jag, he had arrived in Somerset --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- to be met at the gate by Liam Gallagher. --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- page number