The ‘Forever Young’ singer will be 80 by the time he takes the music festival’s stage
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Rod Stewart in 2022
Rod Stewart is heading back to Glastonbury for the first time in 23 years.
The 79-year-old singer, who previously headlined the music festival in 2002, will be performing at the Teatime Legend slot in June 2025.
Stewart said on X (formerly Twitter) that he was “proud and ready and more than able to take the stage again to pleasure and titillate my friends at Glastonbury in June.”
This upcoming performance makes the “Forever Young” singer one of the oldest artists to play at the event, which takes place outside of London.
Paul Bergen/Redferns Rod Stewart in June 2024
Stewart, who turns 80 before he will take the Glastonbury stage, is in good company for the superlative. Paul McCartney was 80 when he performed at the festival in 2022.
Meanwhile, the late Burt Bacharach holds the record as the oldest person to play Glastonbury. He was 87 when he took the stage in 2015.
The “Maggie May” hitmaker announced that he would be stepping back from “large-scale world tours,” but has no plans to step back from performing completely anytime soon.
“This will be the end of large-scale world tours for me, but I have no desire to retire,” Stewart said on Instagram Wednesday, Nov. 20. “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.”
Stewart concluded, “but then again, I may not…” before signing off on the post as “The Ambiguous Sir Rod Stewart.”
Despite no massive world tours planned, Stewart’s 2025 is already looking busy. He will kick off his One Last Time tour across the U.S. and Canada with 20 shows starting in Austin, Texas and concluding in August in St. Louis.
He previously took the concert experience to locations in Europe and Asia.
Along with Glastonbury, which will take place from June 25-29, Stewart will also be wrapping up his 13-year Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace with performances from March through June.
