SIR Rod Stewart has been announced for Glastonbury Festival’s Legends slot next summer.
The 79-year-old confirmed the news on social media today, writing: “I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that I’ll be playing @glastofest 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!”
Event organiser Emily Eavis also shared her delight.
She said: “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.”
The football mad rocker last performed on Worthy Farm some 22 years ago, alongside Coldplay and Stereophonics.
He follows such greats as Dolly Parton, Kylie Minogue, Lionel Richie, Cat Stevens, Shania Twain and Diana Ross in the coveted afternoon slot on the Pyramid Stage.
And music lovers can’t wait to hear his rasping croon on what will hopefully be a balmy day in Pilton.
One commented: “I shall be drinking Rods whisky watching this….get in there Sir Roderick.”
Another said: “Can’t wait!!! So chuffed.”
A third said: “Best news ever!”
A fourth gushed: “Rod my Hero number one you are fantastic.”
Rod’s biggest hits include Maggie May, You Wear It Well and Sailing, accumulating 25 UK top 10 singles and 38 UK top 10 albums as a solo artist.
The singer first rose to fame as frontman of 1970s rockers the Faces, who formed after the break-up of the Small Faces, with Sir Rod and now-Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood joining up with the band’s Ian McLagan, Ronnie Lane, and Kenney Jones.
Sir Rod has also performed and recorded with the Jeff Beck Group appearing on the albums Truth and Beck-Ola.
The announcement comes hot on the heels of father-of-eight Rod revealing he intends to continue touring, although on a smaller scale than he has in the past, despite being on the cusp of 80.
Sir Rod said his next tour for the Great American Songbook and Swing Fever, which he released earlier this year with Jools Holland, will be in smaller and intimate venues.
A statement read: “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 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…”
The hard-working veteran is also putting together new music with the Faces, 52 years since their final record Ooh La La, and working on a new documentary about their history.
It follows a triumphant reunion at the Brit Awards in 2020 when the band performed a medley of hits to close out the show.
