Lionel Richie is to perform at Glastonbury next year.
The 'All Night Long' hitmaker has confirmed he will follow in the footsteps of country singer Dolly Parton by playing in the Legends' slot at the English music festival next summer.
He said: "I'm really excited to play Glastonbury next year as it's one of the most iconic festivals in the world.
"It has a phenomenal history. The alumni of artists that have previously played is incredible, I'm so honoured to be joining that club.
"It will be a really special moment for me and I can't wait to share it with everyone. I can now say, 'Yes, I'm playing Glastonbury'."
The 65-year-old star - who is playing a number of dates in the UK and Europe next year - is the first act announced for the 2015 line-up so far.
Festival organiser Emily Eavis shared her excitement, saying: "He's one of the great soul legends. He's got some incredible songs and I think he will get people on their feet. There will be a lot of love out there for Lionel."
The singer-songwriter previously revealed his interest in playing the festival earlier this year after hearing Dolly had drawn in a crowd of 175,000 people.
Other artists rumoured to be in talks to perform at Glastonbury next year include Taylor Swift, Foo Fighters, Fleetwood Mac and Oasis.

David Beckham is "lucky to be alive" after being involved in a car crash.
The retired soccer star was collecting his eldest son Brooklyn, 15, from Arsenal's training ground in London on Saturday (29.11.14) when a woman crashed her Mitsubishi into his Audi, and the pair of them are said to have had a lucky escape.
A witness revealed: "Beckham and Brooklyn are lucky to be alive. Beckham took the hit on the driver's side - it could have been a completely different story."
The 39-year-old hunk - who also has sons Romeo, 12, and Cruz, nine, and three-year-old daughter Harper with fashion designer wife Victoria Beckham, 40 - was "massively apologetic" following the collision and is said to have given the female driver his jumper as she and her daughter waited for help.
David - who is reported to have hurt his shoulder in the accident - rushed to comfort the pair, who were later taken to hospital, after checking that Brooklyn was okay.
A source told The Sun newspaper: "Beckham was turning right and mustn't have seen the other car, or realised how fast it was travelling.
"She smacked into the side of him. It's a miracle no one was seriously hurt. Beckham was massively apologetic."
However, the former England captain recovered in time to escort wife Victoria to the Evening Standard Theatre Awards last night (30.11.14).

Scarlett Johansson has reportedly got married in secret.
The 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' actress is said to have tied the knot with her French journalist fiancé Romain Dauriac in a secret ceremony following the birth of their daughter Rose in September.
A source told the New York Post newspaper's PageSix: "Scarlett and Romain were married in a very intimate ceremony after the birth of their daughter. They kept the wedding a big secret because they both wanted privacy."
The couple sparked rumours they had married last month when the 30-year-old beauty - who was previously wed to actor Ryan Reynolds - was spotted wearing a gold ring on her wedding finger.
Although Scarlett and Romain are yet to confirm whether they are now man and wife, it's reported they decided against holding the ceremony in his native Paris and instead married at a secret location in the United States.
Scarlett - who began dating Romain in 2012 and got engaged in 2013 - previously revealed she didn't want to "rush" into tying the knot as she wanted to "enjoy and really savour" her engagement.
However, the 'Lucy' star was reportedly overheard telling a pal at a Hamptons dinner party in June that she and her fiancé would be married "very soon".

Jason Sudeikis has joked he's "not allowed" to make movies without Jennifer Aniston.
The 39-year-old actor has starred alongside the 'Friends' actress in three movies in as many years - 'Horrible Bosses', 'We're The Millers' and currently 'Horrible Bosses 2' - and he's joked it's because he's been banned from working with anyone else.
Sudeikis said: "I'm not allowed to do a movie without her. It's actually the fourth movie. We met in 2009 when I played a small character pining for her in a movie she did with Gerard Butler ['The Bounty Hunter']."
The 'Hall Pass' star also spoke about the way in which 'Horrible Bosses 2' personifies a heightened version of reality and insisted he's not interested in what critics have to say.
He explained: "Each boss personifies a different element, whether we're being put on our heel's due to a woman's frank sexuality or Jamie Foxx's character and the way he deals with race...
"While some people may just write it off as dumb, crude humour ... I think they are maybe in a position of criticising films because of a lack of imagination than to see what's actually going on there."
Meanwhile, Sudeikis will next star alongside Jeremy Irons and William Hurt in Jesse Owens biopic 'Race', which he describes as "by no means a comedy".

FKA Twigs doesn't care if people don't like her music.
The 'Two Weeks' hitmaker - whose real name is Tahliah Debrett Barnett - claims she can handle being criticised for her image or her music on social media but refuses to accept being abused because of the colour of her skin.
The 26-year-old beauty - who is of English, Spanish and Jamaican descent - admitted: "Obviously I know if you're putting yourself out there saying, 'Hey! Listen to my music!', with pictures of yourself in the magazines, then people are going to judge you.
"'I hate her music. I hate her hair. I hate her production. I hate her videos'. Fine: don't care. That's the great thing about art, it's not for everyone. But when it comes to racism, really? In this day and age? Pick that?"
Tahlia also confessed that despite having bagged herself a superstar boyfriend in 'Twilight' actor Robert Pattison, she's wary of becoming complacent.
She explained to the Observer newspaper: "Oh, I'm nothing. I'm nothing right now. I think it's easy to sit in this trendy café, in a trendy little area of New York, and say, 'Ooh, I'm FKA Twigs'. But outside of these four blocks, does anybody really give a s**t? Probably not."
The 'Water Me' singer added: "I'm appealing to people who want something different. But the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole."

Thandie Newton was told her hair was too "ghetto" for her school photograph.
The 'Mission: Impossible II' star inherited afro-curly hair from her Nigerian mother and she's recalled how the nuns who ran her school in Cornwall singled her out for looking different.
She said: "My mum braided my hair - for her it was the neatest, prettiest style, the equivalent of having your hair freshly cut and styled.
"I went to the best school in town, which was run by nuns, and they wouldn't let me have my photo taken because of my hair.
"I think they thought it was a bit 'ghetto', though we didn't really know what that meant. It was absolutely not 'ghetto'. The next day my mum went into the school. I don't know what was said, but I had my photo taken."
Although the 42-year-old beauty has now grown to love her natural curls, she admits she began chemically straightening it as soon as she was old enough and continued to do so for many years because people preferred it.
Thandie explained to The Sunday Telegraph newspaper: "There were layers and layers of low self-esteem attached to these early experiences, and I continued to have very low self-esteem for years.
"So as soon as I could I had my hair professionally 'relaxed' with chemicals to make it 'normal', and it stayed straight until only a few years ago. It was how Hollywood wanted my hair too."

Angelina Jolie knows Brad Pitt "intimately and emotionally".
The 39-year-old star is currently promoting the release of 'Unknown' - the second film she's directed - and she's confessed the message within it is dedicated to her love for her husband and their sons.
Speaking about how making an epic war film is unusual for a woman, she said: "I don't feel it's a woman's touch as much as it's how a woman loves and respects men.
"And I look at this, and I see my son, and Brad, and it's me paying respect to the men I love, showing them I know them intimately and I know them emotionally.
"And they're not just cool to me when they're being tough. They're cool when they're able to be vulnerable to."
The 'Salt' actress also admitted she wants her children - Shiloh, Vivienne, Maddox, Pax, Zahara and Knox - to watch the film and learn from it.
Referring to the story of American Olympic runner Louis Zamperini, who was beaten by Japanese guards for over two years as a soldier and prisoner during the Second World War, Angelina told The Sunday Times newspaper: "I wanted to show them something that's hard to watch in places, but in the end - without beating you over the head - you do, I hope, feel a bit more like, 'Well, maybe I can step up and be a better person, too'."

The homeless boxer Mickey Rourke fought in Moscow, Russia allowed the actor to win.
The Oscar nominee and former fighter made a widely publicised appearance in the boxing ring on Friday (28.11.14), but the credibility of his win over Elliot Seymour, 29, has now been called into question.
A source close to the Seymour family explained: "It was clearly a fixed fight. The whole bouncing off the ropes, hands down, punches were not landing and they were intentionally hitting each other's gloves."
The insider said that fans of the 62-year-old former boxer have been mislead about his supposed success.
The source told the Daily Mail newspaper: "All these headlines Mickey Rourke beat someone half his age... yeah he did but you're not telling them the real story.
"The real story is he's homeless and desperate and he will probably go back to living on the streets when he gets back. People have no clue about that.
"Mickey Rourke has made his living as an actor, and if you expected his sanctioned boxing match today in Moscow against a 29-year-old to be totally legitimate then you've been watching too many movies."
The high-profile fight was ended when Mickey knocked out his opponent.

Nicki Minaj performed at the 16th birthday party of Lil Wayne's daughter Reginae Carter.
The 'Anaconda' star was the main attraction of the evening, as she belted out various tunes for the enthusiastic crowd in Atlanta on Saturday (29.11.14).
Nicki, 31, and Lil Wayne, 32, are good friends having enjoyed incredible career success working together on the Young Money record label and the curvaceous singer was happy to entertain Reginae, Wayne's only daughter, whom he had with reality star Toya Carter when he was just 15.
Among the presents Reginae was given for her birthday was a BMW, bought by her father, as well as a Ferrari, which was gifted by her mother.
Meanwhile, Nicki recently revealed how excited she is for the launch of her new album, 'The Pinkprint', which is set to be released this month.
She shared with E! News: "It really shows a lot of growth. I know that my fans are really going to appreciate the subject matter on a lot of the songs."
The hip-hop icon also revealed she suffers from shyness, despite her outward self-confidence.
She said: "I feel shy a lot of times actually. I just push myself to go for it."

Michelle Rodriguez has paid tribute to Paul Walker, who died on November 30, 2013.
The pair both starred in the 'Fast & Furious' franchise and Michelle, 36, has taken to social media to pay her own respects to the actor, who passed away after being involved in a car accident.
She wrote on Twitter: "I love you Paul. Your living in the hearts of all who love you for sure. Sending mad love out to Heaven @SupportROWW (sic)"
Michelle's tweet made reference to Reach Out Worldwide (ROWW), the late actor's charitable organisation which provides natural disaster relief.
Michelle also paid tribute to her co-star by posting images of him on her Instagram account.
Elsewhere, Tyrese Gibson, one of Paul's co-stars and an off-screen friend, paid tribute to him on his Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages.
He said: "Physically gone but forever alive in our minds, hearts and spirit.... What was once tears of pain and shock are now tears of JOY celebrating all that you stood for... (sic).
"Everyone worldwide please take 5 mins out of your day to send live, prayers and energy to Paul's family his daughter Meadow and immediate circle today will be a tough day for us.... To this day his arm is still around my neck with love and protection... Rest in heaven...."

Mitch Winehouse regrets arguing with his daughter Amy about her drug and alcohol abuse.
The 'Back to Black' singer died in 2011, aged 27, from alcohol poisoning, and her father now admits that he and Amy's mum Janis, 59, did not deal with her chaotic lifestyle in the healthiest way.
He reflected: "She couldn't talk to me about what she was going through.
"I just screamed and shouted at her. That's how I dealt with her problems. And that's obviously not a wise way to deal with it."
Since her death, however, Mitch has made a conscious decision to approach the situation in a positive manner.
He told the Daily Star newspaper: "I had to try to be positive - I didn't think I had a choice. It was either that or jump into bed and pull the duvet over my head.
"When you experience loss you don't have to do anything ­specific to remember them. They're with you all the time.
"We don't have to be in a particular place to have a little cry and a little laugh. Every day we're thinking about her. Everything we do is about her."
Mitch and his ex-wife set up The Amy Winehouse Foundation, which raises money to help young people affected by drug and ­alcohol misuse.

Sunetra Sarker has been eliminated from 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
The 'Casualty' actress and her professional partner Brendan Cole found themselves in the dance-off against Mark Wright and his partner Karen Hauer, and exited the reality show after the judges chose to save the former 'The Only Way is Essex' star.
Sunetra, 41, who was appearing in the dance-off for the third time, reflected: "It's been such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be able to do this.
'I'd like to thank Brendan for being just so committed and understanding, and such a natural dancer, this guy - you've been great - thank you so much for everything.
"I also want to say a thank you to every single one of the contestants and all the pro dancers for holding my hand so very tightly - love you all."
Brendan said: "You should be very proud of yourself to get this far - it's no mean feat.
"To reiterate, thanks to everyone that works on the show - it's the best show on television."
Their exit was confirmed after judges Craig Revel Horwood, Darcey Bussell and Bruno Tonioli all chose to save Mark, 27, with Len Goodman saying he agreed with their decision.