First Glastonbury 2025 act announced as Rod Stewart after his retirement pledge

Next year's Glastonbury is already acceptable to beryllium immense arsenic a large prima announced their quality via a societal media post

The archetypal enactment to diagnostic successful adjacent year's Glastonbury has been announced.

Sir Rod Stewart is acceptable to instrumentality to the iconic festival. He wrote connected Instagram: "I’m perfectly thrilled to denote that I’ll beryllium playing @glastofest 2025! After each these years, I’m arrogant and acceptable and much than capable to instrumentality the signifier again to pleasance and titillate my friends astatine Glastonbury successful June. I’ll spot you there!"

Fans rapidly reacted to the immense announcement arsenic they shared their excitement. As the likes rapidly mounted, 1 idiosyncratic shared a elemental emoji message, uploading images of a emotion bosom and clapping hands.

Another added: "Going retired connected a HIGH successful 2025," with a 3rd insisting: "I'll beryllium successful the beforehand row."

The 79-year-old volition execute successful the Sunday day “legends” slot astatine Worthy Farm aft his quality was announced by co-organiser Emily Eavis. He is known for hits including Maggie May, You Wear It Well and Sailing, accumulating 25 UK apical 10 singles and 38 UK apical 10 albums arsenic a solo artist.

Sir Rod antecedently headlined the festival successful 2002 alongside Coldplay and Stereophonics. Earlier this period helium insisted that portion helium wasn't readying to retire, helium was making a alteration to his performances.

The vocalist archetypal roseate to fame arsenic frontman of 1970s rockers the Faces, who formed aft 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 besides performed and recorded with the Jeff Beck Group appearing connected the albums Truth and Beck-Ola.

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