Rod Stewart to play legend slot as he makes Glastonbury 2025 line-up | Ents & Arts News

Rod Stewart will likely be a headliner at Glastonbury subsequent yr, the pageant has introduced.

Stewart, 79, will play the Sunday teatime legend slot.

The Do Ya Assume I am Attractive star is the primary act to be introduced.

He shared the information on Instagram, writing: “I am completely thrilled to announce that I will be enjoying Glastonbury Pageant 2025! In any case these years, I am proud and prepared and greater than capable of take the stage once more to pleasure and titillate my associates at Glastonbury in June. I will see you there!”

Sir Rod will likely be 80 when the pageant takes place between 25 and 29 June subsequent yr at Worthy Farm in Somerset.

Pageant co-organiser Emily Eavis shared the identical picture of Sir Rod a couple of minutes later, with the message: “Bringing Sir Rod Stewart again for the Sunday afternoon slot on the Pyramid Stage is all the pieces we may want for. What a solution to bow out with the ultimate legends slot earlier than we take a fallow yr. We can not wait.”

2026 will likely be a fallow yr for Glastonbury (a yr off), with the pageant historically going down 4 out of each 5 years, and the fifth yr reserved for rehabilitation of the land.

Sir Rod – who is thought for hits together with Maggie Could, You Put on It Properly and Crusing – beforehand headlined the pageant in 2002 alongside Coldplay and Stereophonics, closing the present on the Sunday evening.

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Sir Rod first rose to fame as frontman of Seventies rockers the Faces, alongside now-Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wooden together with Ian McLagan, Ronnie Lane, and Kenney Jones. They fashioned after the break-up of the Small Faces.

He is additionally carried out and recorded with the Jeff Beck Group showing on the albums Reality and Beck-Ola.

Sir Rod has gone on to have 25 UK high 10 singles and 38 UK high 10 albums as a solo artist. His profession spans six a long time.

In 2016, he was knighted at Buckingham Palace for his companies to music and charity, and is a member of the US Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame.

Final week, Sir Rod introduced he’s to finish “large-scale world excursions” however mentioned he had no plans to retire.

The coveted Sunday afternoon legends slot has beforehand been performed by Kylie Minogue, Dame Shirley Bassey, Diana Ross, and Yusuf/Cat Stevens, with the Canadian singer Shania Twain filling the place this yr.

Earlier this month, commonplace tickets offered out in 35 minutes, as a brand new system noticed hopefuls get “randomly assigned a spot in a queue” as a substitute of getting to refresh the holding web page as soon as they went reside.

Any cancelled or returned tickets will likely be resold in spring 2025.