BBCRock star Rod Stewart has been confirmed to play Glastonbury’s legends slot in 2025, 23 years after his final look on the competition.
Probably the greatest-selling artists of all time, he’ll comply with within the footsteps of Dolly Parton, Barry Gibb, Shania Twain and Kylie Minogue by taking part in the coveted Sunday teatime slot.
The information comes shortly after the star introduced his intention to cease taking part in “large-scale world excursions” on the finish of 2025.
The 79-year-old mentioned he was “proud, prepared and greater than capable of pleasure and titillate my mates at Glastonbury” subsequent June.
The Sunday afternoon slot at all times attracts one of many greatest crowds of the competition, and Sir Rod will turn out to be the primary particular person to have headlined the occasion and been given legends billing.
Stewart beforehand headlined the competition in 2002, alongside Coldplay and Stereophonics.
That yr, organisers have been testing a five-mile “superfence” to maintain out gatecrashers, which was a hit.
“You have had some great press everywhere in the nation as a result of every part’s been so well-behaved and orderly,” the Scottish singer instructed the viewers throughout his Sunday night time set.
“I do not know if that is an excellent factor or a nasty factor – however at the least we all know Glastonbury’s going to go on for the following 30 years.”
At first, “the gang was cautious” of the musician, who “appeared to be taking himself too significantly”, mentioned the BBC’s Ian Youngs in a assessment of the present.
“However waverers have been received over by the double whammy of Maggie Might and Do Ya Assume I am Attractive? half an hour into his set, when the gang realised that he actually was tacky sufficient to be admitted to the Glastonbury Corridor of Fame.”
Taking part in to the viewers, Stewart preened and posed his means by the hits, with an array of costume modifications that ended with a white ruffled shirt, unbuttoned nearly to the navel.
He ended the night time with Crusing, inspiring a mass singalong as fireworks exploded over the Pyramid Stage.
Rumoured headliners
Stewart is the primary act to be confirmed for Glastonbury 2025.
The occasion will happen on Worthy Farm in Somerset from 25 to 29 June, with rumoured headliners together with Sam Fender, Olivia Rodrigo, Stevie Surprise, Eminem and Charli XCX.
This yr’s occasion noticed Dua Lipa and SZA make their debuts on the prime of the invoice, with Coldplay taking part in a record-breaking sixth headline present.
Tickets, which price £373.50 plus a £5 reserving charge, have already bought out. The final time Stewart performed, the worth was set at £97 – making it the final time the competition price lower than £100.
A restricted variety of resale tickets for subsequent yr’s occasion will go on sale within the New Yr.