Jay Z, one of the America’s most successful music artists, was a few minutes late coming on stage and the crowd were invited to ’sing along’ to Hey Jude as they awaited his arrival at the festival this evening Friday June 11)

Three numbers in and Jay Z’s band launched into the intro to Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze. “Let’s hear it for Jim Hendrix! Let’s be loud for Jimi,” called Jay Z as the crowd erupted into cheers.

Jay Z paused his performance to asked security guards to go easy on fans surging to the front of the arena.

He thanked the crowd out at the end of another number letting them know how much it meant to him and how proud be was to have even beaten Elvis to the number one album spot.

Mr Hudson joined Jay Z on the stage and sung Forever Young with the rapper sporting black shorts, shirt and sunglasses

The rumour became reality as Kanye West emerged and joined Jay Z on the main stage and the crowd went wild and greeted him with a hugh cheer as they performed the final numbers of the evening, bringing day one of the festival to a close.

The weather held out and there wasn’t a spot of rain in the air. With now an estimated 55,000 people at the ninth festival run by John Giddings and his SOLO team, the rest of the weekend is set to be a blinder.