Rod Stewart to play Glastonbury's legends slot

Rock prima Rod Stewart has been confirmed to play Glastonbury's legends slot successful 2025, 23 years aft his past quality astatine the festival.

One of the best-selling artists of each time, helium volition travel successful the footsteps of Dolly Parton, Barry Gibb, Shania Twain and Kylie Minogue by playing the coveted Sunday teatime slot.

The quality comes soon aft the prima announced his volition to halt playing "large-scale satellite tours" astatine the extremity of 2025.

The 79-year-old said helium was "proud, acceptable and much than capable to pleasance and titillate my friends astatine Glastonbury" adjacent June.

Stewart antecedently headlined the festival successful 2002, alongside Coldplay and Stereophonics.

That year, organisers were investigating a five-mile "superfence" to support retired gatecrashers, which was a success.

"You've had immoderate fantastic property each implicit the state due to the fact that everything's been truthful well-behaved and orderly," the Scottish vocalist told the assemblage during his Sunday nighttime set.

"I don't cognize if that's a bully happening oregon a atrocious happening - but astatine slightest we cognize Glastonbury's going to spell connected for the adjacent 30 years."

At first, "the assemblage was wary" of the musician, who "looked to beryllium taking himself excessively seriously", said the BBC's Ian Youngs successful a reappraisal of the show.

"But waverers were won implicit by the treble whammy of Maggie May and Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? fractional an hr into his set, erstwhile the assemblage realised that helium truly was cheesy capable to beryllium admitted to the Glastonbury Hall of Fame."

Playing to the audience, Stewart preened and posed his mode done the hits, with an array of costume changes that ended with a achromatic ruffled shirt, unbuttoned astir to the navel.

He ended the nighttime with Sailing, inspiring a wide singalong arsenic fireworks exploded implicit the Pyramid Stage.

Stewart is the archetypal enactment to beryllium confirmed for Glastonbury 2025.

The lawsuit volition instrumentality spot connected Worthy Farm successful Somerset from 25 to 29 June, with rumoured headliners including Sam Fender, Olivia Rodrigo, Stevie Wonder, Eminem and Charli XCX.

This year's lawsuit saw Dua Lipa and SZA marque their debuts astatine the apical of the bill, with Coldplay playing a record-breaking sixth header show.

Tickets, which outgo £373.50 positive a £5 booking fee, person already sold out. The past clip Stewart played, the terms was acceptable astatine £97 - making it the past clip the festival outgo little than £100.

A constricted fig of resale tickets for adjacent year's lawsuit volition spell connected merchantability successful the New Year.