The legendary DJ talks about his Thursday night set and the influence of his friend Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house
David Morales has not come to Glastonbury prepared. In fact, as the unrelenting rain tips down on Worthy Farm, one of the world's biggest DJs has rocked up in shiny white Adidas trainers. I've had to borrow these wellies off a girl I just met, he says, waving his feet in the air. I think she must have had pretty big feet. I quite like the look though.
DJ Morales, who has worked with everyone from Aretha Franklin and Madonna to Kylie Minogue and Mariah Carey, was in Somerset for his first appearance at the festival. Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
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by Hannah Ellis-Petersen via Electronic music | The Guardian
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