Folk rock legend Neil Young, who announced his withdrawal from the English Glastonbury festival, reversed his decision this Friday, blaming “an error in the information received”. The day before, the 79-year-old American-Canadian musician had accused the organizers of having fallen “under the control” of the BBC, partner like every year of the musical event, the next edition of which will take place from June 25 to 29, 2025 .
“Due to an error in the information received, I had decided not to play at Glastonbury, which I have always loved doing. But fortunately, the festival is back in our calendar and we can’t wait to play there!”, wrote the singer on his website.
Emily Eavis, the organizer of the event which last year welcomed some 210,000 festival-goers, was delighted with this decision. “Neil Young is an artist who is very close to our hearts (…) He does things his way and that’s why we love him,” she said on Instagram. “We look forward to welcoming him back” to the festival, where he will be one of the headliners on the Pyramid stage,” she added.
On Thursday, the musician justified the withdrawal of his band The Chrome Hearts by saying that the BBC “wanted us to do a lot of things in a way that we were not interested in”. “It appears that Glastonbury is now under corporate control and that the festival is no longer what I remember it being,” he continued, without further details.
The concerts of this large annual gathering in the southwest of England are widely broadcast on the channels of the British audiovisual giant, a partner of the festival since 1997.
