What actually is the Glastonbury legend slot and does Sir Rod Stewart fit the bill?

Rod Stewart is Glastonbury 2025’s archetypal major line-up announcement, and helium volition beryllium taking the festival’s coveted fable slot on the Sunday afternoon.

The 79-year-old vocalist volition beryllium taking to the Pyramid Stage astatine teatime connected Sunday June 29 successful a slot that’s possibly adjacent much important than the 3 Glastonbury headliners.

Historically, the fable slot has attracted immoderate of the biggest crowds, with Shania Twain’s 2024 acceptable filling the grounds each the mode up to the obstruction with a thousands-strong chorus of Man, I Feel Like A Woman.

The Sir Rod announcement – connected a random Tuesday successful November – came arsenic a astonishment to ticketholders, who usually person a months-long hold for immoderate whiff of a headliner confirmation.

Last year, organiser Emily Eavis near it the longest clip successful 17 years until a azygous authoritative announcement was made, and it came successful the mediate of March alongside the afloat line-up.

This year’s rumoured headliners see Sam Fender, Olivia Rodrigo, Harry Styles, Green Day, Billy Joel, and Eminem.

But what is the fable slot, and does the Maggie May vocalist acceptable the bill?

What is Glastonbury’s fable slot?

Glastonbury’s fable slot is 1 of the astir prestigious sets connected the euphony calendar.

The fable slot sees a euphony icon of decades-long, award-winning, chart-topping calibre instrumentality to the Pyramid Stage connected the Sunday day of the festival each twelvemonth (usually kicking disconnected from 3.15pm to 4.30pm).

It’s not astir jumping astir similar a maniac with beers successful manus but tends to beryllium much of a picnic broad matter for each to bask successful appreciation of a existent great.

While evening headliners whitethorn cater for a definite demographic – see Dua Lipa past year – the fable slot indispensable beryllium known by and pull the festival’s oldest to youngest revellers, each uncovering it intolerable to defy catching a rock, pop, oregon blues fable successful the soma for what could beryllium 1 of their last hurrahs.

It’s not for stars successful their prime, but for beingness achievers nearing the extremity of their illustrious careers – and they indispensable person astatine slightest a fistful of well-known bangers up their sleeves.

It’s contested arsenic to who unofficially started the fable slot trend, but implicit the years it’s earned its estimation arsenic a must-see infinitesimal astatine Glastonbury. Subsequently, it adopted the ceremonial rubric acknowledged by the festival itself.

While Glastonbury has been going since 1970, the archetypal ‘official’ Sunday fable performer was crooner Tony Bennett astir 20 years aboriginal successful 1998.

Who has played the fable slot?

After the I Left My Heart In San Francisco hitmaker’s legendary 1998 set, the slot was officially 1 to ticker for excited ticketholders.

It’s since been filled by the likes of Sir Tom Jones, Dame Shirley Bassey, James Brown, Sat Stevens/Yusef, Lionel Richie and adjacent Kylie Minogue.

Is Sir Rod Stewart a bully acceptable for the Glastonbury fable slot 2025l?

In short: yes. Sir Rod fits the measure for a Glastonbury fable slot.

With immense hits including Maggie May, I Don’t Want To Talk About It, Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?, All For Love, and Sailing, he’s 1 of the best-selling artists successful past having sold implicit 250million records worldwide.

Just past twelvemonth his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra medium with Jools Holland got him his 11th No. 1 UK album.

However – contempt his wide eligibility – immoderate Glastonbury-goers weren’t champion pleased astatine the aboriginal fable slot announcement, with immoderate criticising the choice.

‘Imagine spending astir £400 connected a summons lone to observe that Rod Stewart is the main act. You’re going to privation to anticipation there’s a decent enactment connected elsewhere,’ wrote @Dickster27.

Meanwhile, @RubyRedhead4 said: ‘Rod Stewart astatine Glastonbury 2025 is simply a cleanable crushed not to go….’

‘Rod Stewart’s singing… precise limited, nary range. Is this truly the champion that Glastonbury tin do?’ asked @WestingAll38877.

Sir Rod whitethorn not beryllium the astir fashionable Sunday fable successful caller years, but you can’t deny: helium is one.

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