Rod Stewart will likely be a headliner at Glastonbury subsequent yr, the competition has introduced.
Stewart, 79, will play the Sunday teatime legend slot.
The Do Ya Suppose I am Attractive singer is the primary act to be introduced.
Sir Rod will likely be 80 when the competition takes place between 25 and 29 June subsequent yr on Worthy Farm in Somerset.
Competition co-organiser Emily Eavis shared the identical picture of Sir Rod a couple of minutes later, with the message: “Bringing Sir Rod Stewart back for the Sunday afternoon slot on the Pyramid Stage is everything we could wish for. What a way to bow out with the final legends slot before we take a fallow year. We cannot wait.”
2026 will likely be a fallow yr for Glastonbury (a yr off), with the competition historically going down 4 out of each 5 years, and the fifth yr reserved for rehabilitation of the land.
Sir Rod – who is understood for hits together with Maggie Might, You Put on It Effectively and Crusing – beforehand headlined the competition in 2002 alongside Coldplay and Stereophonics, closing the present on the Sunday evening.
Sir Rod first rose to fame as frontman of Nineteen Seventies rockers the Faces, alongside now-Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wooden together with Ian McLagan, Ronnie Lane, and Kenney Jones. They shaped after the break-up of the Small Faces.
He is additionally carried out and recorded with the Jeff Beck Group showing on the albums Fact and Beck-Ola.
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Sir Rod together with his spouse Penny Lancaster
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 a whopping 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 tours” however stated 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 lower than 40 minutes, as a brand new system noticed hopefuls get “randomly assigned a place in a queue” as an alternative of getting to refresh the holding web page as soon as they went stay.
Any cancelled or returned tickets will likely be resold in spring 2025.
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