Rod Stewart was joined by Ronnie Wooden, Mick Hucknall and Lulu within the legend’s slot on Sunday afternoon at Glastonbury 2025.
The veteran singer took on the celebrated mid-afternoon slot – made well-known through the years by the likes of Johnny Money, Shirley Bassey, Dolly Parton and Lionel Richie – on the Pyramid Stage on Sunday (June 29).
Performed on stage by an prolonged string part and strains of bagpipes, he went into the sleek rock of opener ‘Tonight I’m Yours (Don’t Harm Me)’, earlier than greeting the viewers with: “Take pleasure in yourselves women and gents, please. Music brings us collectively – we want music!”
As confirmed earlier this 12 months, the set noticed him reunite together with his former Faces bandmate and Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wooden, marking the primary time they’ve performed collectively in public because the 2020 BRIT Awards.
They performed the 1971 traditional ‘Keep With Me’, and it adopted the information that they’ve reportedly recorded “about 11 tracks” for a brand new album – which might be their first full-length effort in over 50 years.
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The opposite main company have been Merely Crimson’s Mick Hucknall, who joined Stewart in an enormous singalong duet of ‘If You Don’t Know Me By Now’, and Lulu, who sang ‘Sizzling Legs’ with Stewart.
Shortly into the set, Stewart stated: “There’s been quite a bit in regards to the Center East lately and fairly rightly so, however I wish to draw your consideration to the Ukraine with the following tune,” earlier than launching into his model of The O’Jays’ ‘Love Prepare’.
His assist for Ukraine has been ardent since 2022, when he rented out a house for a household of refugees from the nation. Nonetheless, he additionally make headlines in latest days when he appeared to endorse the right-wing Reform UK get together.
Talking to The Occasions, he was requested in regards to the present state of UK politics. “We’re fed up with the Tories,” he stated. “We’ve acquired to offer Farage an opportunity. He’s coming throughout effectively. What choices have we acquired? I do know a few of his household. I do know his brother, and I fairly like him.”
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His feedback did put him within the crosshairs of Kneecap throughout their controversial set on the competition on Saturday, and one member of Stewart’s viewers was proven on digicam sporting an indication studying: “We’re right here for Olivia, fuck Reform”, referring to Sunday’s Pyramid headliner Olivia Rodrigo.
Stewart additionally took a second to bid a contented birthday to competition founder Michael Eavis, who was wheeled out by his daughter Emily and waved to a loud ovation from the huge Pyramid crowd.
Rod Stewart performed:
‘Tonight I’m Yours (Don’t Harm Me)’
‘Having A Celebration’
‘Some Guys Have All The Luck’
‘Love Prepare’
‘The First Minimize Is The Deepest’
‘Tonight’s The Night time (Gonna Be Alright)’
‘Eternally Younger’
‘You Put on It Nicely’
‘Maggie Could’
‘Younger Turks’
‘It’s A Heartache’
‘I’d Quite Go Blind’
‘Do Ya Assume I’m Horny?’
‘Woman Marmalade’ [performed by the backing singers]
‘I Don’t Need To Discuss About It’
‘If You Don’t Know Me By Now’ [with Mick Hucknall]
‘Child Jane’
‘Proud Mary’ [performed by the backing singers]
‘Keep With Me’ [with Ronnie Wood]
‘Sizzling Legs’ [with Lulu and Ronnie Wood]
‘Crusing’
This 12 months’s Glastonbury has seen outspoken politics units from the likes of Kneecap and Amyl & The Sniffers, in addition to a Bob Vylan efficiency that the competition itself stated it was “appalled” by because of frontman Bobby Vylan main chants of “dying to the IDF”.
Elsewhere, The 1975 “delivered a reminder of their chops for tunes and showmanship” throughout their Friday evening Pyramid headline slot, Neil Younger “proved there’s nonetheless energy to be present in an old-school strategy” the next evening, whereas Charli XCX delivered a closing victory lap for her ‘Brat’ period on the Different Stage on Saturday evening.
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