He had been in hospital but passed away on 10 January, a statement on the festival's website said.
The American actress Robin Wright Penn, who also sat on the festival jury, laughed off rumors that the decision was hotly disputed.
The Boomtown Rats are joined on the festival's line-up by their contemporaries Blondie, along with more up-and-coming acts like Jake Bugg and Emeli Sande.
"It is with very heavy hearts and much regret that we announce the cancellation of Sonisphere Knebworth 2012, " reads a statement on the festival's website.
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Jacob said in a statement posted on the festival's website Thursday.
Some of the films, like Linklater's "Before Midnight" and Green's "Prince Avalanche, " will be continuing on the festival circuit after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
He said the addition of an asterisk would mean no results would be returned on the festival website if a search was conducted using the show's original title.
The weather has a big impact on the festival, whether it is a mudbath or dustbowl - and Worthy Farm's rooks have given Mr Eavis hope for this year's outlook.
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On the festival grounds, the company set up tent along the mighty Mississippi in the ribs section, and then set to work luring visitors in out of the heat with free samples of wine.
The rock emphasis of the final day is a nod to Reading's past in the late 1970s and 1980s - when bands like Uriah Heep, Whitesnake and Iron Maiden could be found on the festival's stages.
Other films have already been seen on the festival circuit at Sundance, Cannes, Venice and Toronto - such as Michael Haneke's Cannes Palme d'Or winner Amour, Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt and Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
While Vieux Farka Toure takes his band on the festival circuit in London, British guitarist Justin Adams takes time out from his gig with Robert Plant to rock out with Juldeh Camara, a traditional Fulani musician from the Gambia.
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But Ms. Delpy and her collaborators, actor-writer Ethan Hawke and writer-director Richard Linklater, would go on to create "Before Sunset" (2004) and "Before Midnight, " which opens Friday in New York and Los Angeles after an enthusiastic reception on the festival circuit.
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The city's annual summer festivals are not limited solely to the Bare Buns Run, and include Pride Week (early August), western Canada's largest gay pride parade, MusicFest Vancouver (two weeks early August), an international music festival that hosts a free city-centre outdoor stage, and the Bard on the Beach festival (June-September), which sees the work of Shakespeare performed beside the water in a cheerful series of red-and-white circus tents.
His first big win came in the 1994 Hennessy Gold Cup on One Man before a victory on his first outing at the Cheltenham Festival on Dizzy in the County Hurdle.
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The festival's Mardi Gras takes place on 20 July with the Edinburgh Festival Carnival on 21 July.
In 2007, the four musicians met on the summer festival circuit and hit it off immediately.
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Keeping Harvest Suffolk-orientated is high on the agenda for the festival organisers.
Bass baritone Terfel said that for the fifth year of the festival on the Faenol estate he has responded to requests to bring in giant screens to show performers close-up.
Mr. Wang also declined to offer specifics on Mr. Buffett's appearance, including whether it would also appear on the Spring Festival television special, a four- to five-hour series of songs and skits produced by the state broadcaster that is watched by 700 million people in China and might be the world's most-viewed TV show.
The Foo Fighters, now in their eleventh year, will take to the stage on 10 June and Coldplay will close the festival on 11 June.
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Producer Kate Oates said the plot would centre on characters visiting the festival, although the story would not be about the music event itself.
Danica Hunter is playing on Friday at 13:55 BST on the BBC Introducing stage at Reading, and at the same time on Saturday at the Leeds Festival.
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Celebrated on October 31 for more than a millennium, its origin dates back to the observation of the Celtic festival Samhain on the last day of October.
And as during festivals past, Chanel hosted a dinner in celebration of the artist program at the festival on Wednesday at the Odeon.
Pleasant as all these side activities are, success depends in the end on the vitality of the official festival.
The theft of the jewels occurred Thursday night, on the second day of the festival, which opened Wednesday and runs through May 26.
So a deal has been struck for a brand new, exclusive film to be shown on the main stage over the festival weekend.
New funding from the UK Film Council will enable a stand-alone awards ceremony to be held on the penultimate night of the festival.
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