But in what he called “a cup final” – an admirably tacit admission that he understood this wasn’t just another gig – all was forgotten as Stewart, the ultimate showbiz pro, delivered a copybook Legends slot show: hits that everyone knew, choice covers, special guests (Mick Hucknall, Lulu, his old Faces mucker Ronnie Wood) and some genuinely heartening moments (much better than his damp squib 2002 headline show that he claimed last week he can’t remember).
British rock legend Rod Stewart performs on the Pyramid Stage on the final day of Glastonbury 2025 (Photo: Oli SCARFF / AFP)
“I just wish they wouldn’t call it the teatime slot. That sounds like pipe and slippers, doesn’t it?” he’d said before, which gives such a clear indication of how he sees himself: forever young, a fun-loving free spirit impervious to the expectations as to how an 80-year-old should behave. It’s an attitude there in his show: Stewart trades on pure entertainment – if he wants attractive backing singers half his age in short dresses, that’s what he’ll have – and nobody was having more fun that Stewart himself.
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But equally there were some fantastic songs in the first half as he raced through what was for him a shortened 90-minute set: the soft rock of his unofficial anthem “Some Guys Have All the Luck”; a moving take on Cat Stevens “First Cut is the Deepest” (he’s always been a great interpreter of other people’s work); the ever brilliant “Maggie May”, the first full pelt singalong of the set, as he strutted along the walkway looking like he was having the time of his life (and saw the funny side of a fluffed line); the propulsive modern sounding disco rock of “Young Turks”.
By the time he’d had two costume changes (one bright pink suit, then green), he’d kicked footballs into the crowd during the the 1979 disco pastiche classic “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” and brought a dressed-down Mick Hucknall out for a gentle rendition of “If You Don’t Know me By Now”, after which the hits piled up: “Baby Jane”, a fun, superb take on the Faces “Stay With Me” with Wood (it was lovely to see their playful camaraderie and to see Wood shred it on a Faces classic). Lulu (“what a girl!”) then came out to sing “Hot Legs”, a song Stewart has been threatening to retire for decades but is just too good a tune; he went overtime for “Sailing”, wearing a sailor’s hat as he swayed the set to a communal conclusion. If this was Stewart’s cup final, he scored a well-earned victory.
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