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Sir Rod Stewart will be headlining Glastonbury 2025 in the teatime slot (Picture: Jim Dyson/Redferns)

Sir Rod Stewart will be headlining Glastonbury 2025 in the Sunday afternoon legend’s slot, the festival has announced.

The official Glastonbury social media page announced: ‘We’re excited to announce that Sir @RodStewart will play the Sunday teatime legend slot at Glastonbury 2025.’

The 79-year-old is the first headliner to be confirmed for next year’s Worthy Farm extravaganza – and without any rumours floating around at all about the Maggie Mae singer’s appearance.

Usually, headliners aren’t announced until closer to the June festival, and in recent years we haven’t had a whiff of an official confirmation until March, so this will come as a surprise to ticketholders.

The Maggie Mae legend will be taking to the Pyramid Stage on Sunday June 29 2025 (Picture: Sam Tabone/WireImage)

After Sir Rod, there are three other headliners to be announced who will take to the Pyramid Stage on Friday June 27, Saturday June 28 and Sunday June 29.

Rumours are floating around that the other slots could be taken by the likes of Olivia Rodrigo, Harry Styles, Sam Fender, The 1975, Eminem, and Fred Again.

This comes after Sir Rod announced just last week that he would be ending his major world tours.

He wrote: ‘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 age of 79.’

Sir Rod went on: ‘I’d like to move onto a Great American Songbook, Swing Fever tour the year after next – smaller venues and more intimacy.’

He then teased: ‘But then again, I may not…’, signing off as ‘The Ambiguous Sir Rod Stewart.’

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