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Hot Rats: 'Jackson gesture too obvious'

Published Friday, Aug 21 2009, 13:23 BST | By Mayer Nissim
Hot Rats: 'Jackson gesture too obvious'

Rex Features

Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey of Supergrass have said that they did not cover Michael Jackson at Glastonbury because it would have been too obvious a tribute.

The pair played the festival in their Hot Rats guise but passed up the opportunity to play the cover of Jackson's 'Beat It' that sparked the formation of the group, London Lite reports.

Coombes said: "It seemed a bit obvious. Everyone was aware of it. We didn't feel the need to make the gesture."

Regarding their surprise appearance on Glastonbury's Park stage, Goffey added: "It was great. We walked on stage to this unanimous disappointed groan. And then The Dead Weather totally stole our thunder. Bad-um-cha."

Coombes and Goffey played 'Beat It' as the Diamond Hoo Ha Men on last year's ITV show Guilty Pleasures.

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