Sir Rod Stewart will play Glastonbury’s legends slot in 2025.
The 79-year-old singer declared he is “proud, ready and more than able to pleasure and titillate my friends at Glastonbury” next summer.
The ‘Maggie May’ hitmaker will be 80 when he plays at Worthy Farm and will follow in the footsteps of Dolly Parton, Barry Gibb and Kylie Minogue by playing the Sunday teatime slot.
Rod will become the first artist to have headlined Glastonbury and been given legends billing after he previously topped the bill at the festival in 2002 alongside Coldplay and Stereophonics.
He wrote on Instagram: “I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that I’ll be playing Glastonbury Festival 2025! After all these years, I’m proud and ready and more than able to take the stage again to pleasure and titillate my friends at Glastonbury in June. I’ll see you there!”
Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis posted: “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.”
Glastonbury will take a year off in 2026 for the traditional fallow year reserved for the rehabilitation of the land at Worthy Farm.
Rod recently declared that he is done with “large-scale world tours” once he finishes next year’s shows in Europe and North America although insists he will not be retiring.
The ‘You Wear It Well’ singer wrote on Instagram: “This will be the end of large-scale world tours for me, but I have no desire to retire.
“I love what I do, and I do what I love.
“I’m fit, have a full head of hair, and can run 100 metres in 18 seconds at the jolly old age of 79.
“I’d like to move onto a Great American Songbook, Swing Fever tour the year after next – smaller venues and more intimacy. But then again, I may not…”