Glastonbury: Lionel Richie draws festival's biggest crowd

Lionel Richie has drawn the biggest crowd of this year's Glastonbury Festival, with at least 100,000 people estimated to have watched the singer.

The Pyramid Stage field was packed to see the star play hits like Dancing on the Ceiling, Hello and Say You Say Me.

Richie took the event's traditional Sunday afternoon "legend" slot.

His crowd-pleasing performance came after Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama appeared on the same stage with US punk poet Patti Smith.

Veteran rock legends The Who will close the festival later with a headline slot on the Pyramid Stage.

Singer Roger Daltrey said the band would "close this year's event with a bang" and take the audience on an "amazing journey" through their greatest hits.

But they will struggle to match the size of Richie's crowd.

Fans chanted his name and the security guards in front of the stage had even learned a dance that they performed during Dancing on the Ceiling.

After that song, Richie looked disbelievingly at the size of the crowd and repeated: "What the hell is going on?"

The sight was "outrageous", he said, before walking to one of his entourage and saying: "Did you see that? Unbelievable."

Organisers suggested the field could have been near its 120,000 capacity.