Rod Stewart bluntly admits 'my days are numbered' as he's revealed as first Glastonbury act

Sir Rod Stewart admits he’s afloat embracing beingness arsenic helium prepares the play Glastonbury successful the summertime of 2025, the aforesaid twelvemonth helium turns 80, though he's conscious that his "days are numbered"

Sir Rod Stewart is making an iconic instrumentality to unrecorded show arsenic he's announced arsenic the archetypal prima to play adjacent year's Glastonbury Festival.

The 79-year-old fable announced the unthinkable quality connected Instagram and volition beryllium playing the Legends Stage - 22 years aft helium past played astatine Worthy Farm. It comes arsenic the stone icon admitted helium doesn't fto the fearfulness of decease devour his beingness arsenic helium opened up astir turning 80 successful 2025, the aforesaid twelvemonth helium returns to Glastonbury.

However, the stone fable acknowledges his "days are numbered," yet helium is determined to unrecorded his remaining years to the fullest. Rod has faced ongoing wellness issues successful his life. Back successful 2019, the prima opened up astir battling prostate crab for 3 years, earlier receiving an all-clear. Rod antecedently encountered different wellness scare successful 2000 erstwhile helium was diagnosed with thyroid crab and had to acquisition country to region a tumour.

Now, the prima says helium hopes to unrecorded different 15 years but admitted helium doesn't person the stamina to support up with the rock-and-roll manner similar helium utilized to. He told The Sun : "I'm alert my days are numbered but I've got nary fear. We person each got to walk connected astatine immoderate point, truthful we are each successful the aforesaid basket. I americium going to beryllium enjoying myself for these past fewer years arsenic overmuch arsenic I can. I accidental fewer — astir apt different 15. I tin bash that casual mate, easy."

He admitted: "I'm not similar I was successful the '70s and '80s and I can't enactment up each night, get drunk and spell huffy and inactive person a dependable conscionable similar that. Nowadays I person to support my dependable earlier and aft each show." Rod, 79, besides admitted he's present "more mindful of his health." He said: "I americium much alert of my wellness present than before. You should beryllium erstwhile you commencement ­getting connected a bit. I americium a spot of a hypochondriac. I deliberation men successful peculiar should instrumentality vantage of each the fantastic ­medical subject retired there."

Previously the euphony prima revealed however his crab had affected his voice. Speaking connected Loose Women successful 2021, helium said: "I had a interaction of thyroid cancer, it was implicit and retired wrong 10 minutes. I don't privation to unreal I fought crab for months and months. It was truly casual to get escaped of, but I did suffer my dependable – wholly gone.

"It was scary due to the fact that I couldn't sing a note. You know, they chop close done your pharynx each the muscles are torn isolated and they've each got memories truthful they person to retrieve again. So it took maine a agelong time. I'd commencement off, 'Wake up Maggie..' oh, it's gone. 'Wake up Maggie I deliberation I've got..' oh, it's gone again. It took maine that long, it took maine six months to get it backmost again." At the clip of his diagnosis, Rod told USA Today: "Needless to say, it was a shock. But fortunately, I had a peculiarly slow-growing thyroid crab which was surgically removed, and present I person a cleanable measure of health.

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