Glastonbury Festival announces Rod Stewart for 2025 Legend Slot

Glastonbury has announced Rod Stewart for the festival’s coveted Legend Slot next year. Find all the details below.

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The singer-songwriter will perform on the Pyramid Stage at the Worthy Farm event on Sunday June 29. He previously headlined Glasto in 2002, alongside Coldplay and Stereophonics.

“We’re excited to announce that Sir @RodStewart will play the Sunday teatime legend slot at Glastonbury 2025,” a post on the festival’s social media channels reads.

Stewart said: I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that I’ll be playing @glastonbury 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!”

Sharing a separate update, co-organiser Emily Eavis wrote: “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!”

We’re excited to announce that Sir @RodStewart will play the Sunday teatime legend slot at Glastonbury 2025. pic.twitter.com/RP1kWuUZeU

— Glastonbury Festival (@glastonbury) November 26, 2024

I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that I’ll be playing @glastonbury 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! pic.twitter.com/YCeaPRhVUn

— Sir Rod Stewart (@rodstewart) November 26, 2024

Stewart is the first act to be officially confirmed for Glastonbury 2025. He follows the likes of Shania Twain, Yusuf / Cat Stevens, Diana Ross, Kylie Minogue, Dolly Parton and Barry Gibb in taking on the prestigious Legend Slot.

Earlier this month, Stewart revealed that he would be done with “large-scale world tours” when his current run of dates is complete. However, he told fans that he had “no desire to retire” fully.

“I love what I do, and I do what I love,” he continued. “I’m fit, have a full head of hair, and can run 100 meters 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…”

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