Folk legend Neil Young has had a change of coronary heart and can now headline on the Glastonbury music pageant, the singer-songwriter and the organizers mentioned Friday.
Shortly after pulling out of the long-lasting pageant alleging it was beneath the “corporate control” of its companion the BBC, Young went again on the choice saying it had been primarily based on “an error in the information I received”.
“Happily, the festival is now back on our itinerary and we look forward to playing! Hope to see you there!” the U.S.-Canadian wrote on his web site.
Organizers gleefully introduced that he and his band The Chrome Hearts would now headline on the Pyramid stage throughout the June music fest.
“What a start to the year! Neil Young is an artist who’s very close to our hearts at Glastonbury,” pageant co-organizer Emily Eavis wrote on Instagram.
“He does things his own way and that’s why we love him. We can’t wait to welcome him back here to headline the Pyramid in June.”
The 79-year-old musician, who was as soon as one of many line-up of the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, had alleged earlier that the BBC “wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in”, with out specifying.
Young, who final performed Glastonbury in 2009, had mentioned the pageant was “a corporate turn-off, and not for me like it used to be”.
The full official line-up for the world-famous pageant has not been introduced but. But this yr’s occasion will see raspy-voiced British rock star Rod Stewart play the coveted legends slot.
Tickets for this yr bought out inside 35 minutes once they went on sale in November, with commonplace tickets priced at £373.50 ($471.50).
Glastonbury attracted greater than 210,000 followers in 2024, internet hosting 3,000 performances throughout some 80 levels. Many of the gigs had been broadcast by the BBC, which has partnered with the pageant since 1997.
Glasto, because the pageant is popularly identified, was impressed by Britain’s Sixties counterculture and hippie actions, with its first iteration because the Pilton Festival in 1970.
Glam rockers T. Rex had been the primary headliners. Since then, it has attracted cult standing and massive names, from David Bowie and Paul McCartney to Stormzy and Elton John, who performed his remaining UK gig there in 2023.
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