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| | Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | The Observer profile: Michael Eavis |
 | | The other is Michael Eavis: rock impresario, presiding genius, hero to teenagers, political crusader and Blairite, scourge of certain neighbours, an apparent bundle of contradictions, right down to the pate and Abraham Lincoln beard. |
 | | Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis was born in 1935 and educated at the Wells Cathedral School, but left at 15 to join the Union Castle Shipping Line as a trainee midshipman, spending four years plying the routes between Britain, Kenya and South Africa. |
 | | Eavis, who got stomach cancer in 1994 and insisted the show go on during his recovery, still lives frugally and is content to drive a yellow Mini and Land Rover. |
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