Elton John will headline the Glastonbury Festival next summer in what will be the final UK show of his farewell tour
, the festival announced Friday. John will top the bill on the Pyramid Stage on June 25, the music festival’s final night, Glastonbury organizer Emily Eavis said in a statement posted on the festival’s website. The Glastonbury Festival is held most years in Somerset, southwest England. In 2021, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Paul McCartney were the headline artists.
“This will be the final UK show of Elton’s last ever tour, so we will be closing the Festival and marking this huge moment in both of our histories with the mother of all send offs,” she added. The performance will close the UK leg of John’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour,” publicized as his last ever, with more than 300 dates before his retirement after 52 years of touring. The tour, which started in 2018, was originally supposed to end in 2021.
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