Glastonbury festival has announced the first artist for the 2025 edition: Sir Rod Stewart.
The legendary musician will headline the annual Legends slot, which often draws some of the biggest crowds of the entire weekend. Singer 'Maggie Mae' will perform on the Sunday of the festival, which will run its main music program from June 27-29.
The announcement was made on Tuesday morning (November 26) on BBC Radio and the festival's official social media pages. The 79-year-old previously headlined the festival in 2002, joining Coldplay and Stereophonics as bill-toppers that year.
The Sunday Legends slot is one of the most coveted in the festival's history and has seen a number of huge names take to the Pyramid stage. Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Lionel Richie, Kylie Minogue, Diana Ross and more have performed at the festival since its first edition in 1970. Shania Twain took over the Legends Slot at the 2024 event.
This marks the first announcement for the Somerset festival, which is already sold out for next year. tickets went on sale earlier this month and were snapped up by eager punters in less than an hour after a new online queuing system was introduced.
The festival has yet to announce headliners for the festival, but various names have been strongly linked to top the bill. Olivia Rodrigo, Sam Fender, Harry Styles, Lady Gaga and others are considered contenders for the top spot in the line-up. No timeline has been announced for headliners to be revealed, though the full lineup is usually shared in the spring.
The 2025 edition will mark the final event to take place at Worthy Farm before the traditional fallow in 2026, where landowner Michael Eavis and his family allow the grounds to recover every four years. The festival will return again in 2027.
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