Rod Stewart has revealed the cost of playing Glastonbury’s Legends slot this year – and it’s a staggering amount for the rocker to stump up
Singer Rod Stewart has revealed how playing at Glastonbury is costing him a staggering £300,000. The star – who it’s thought is being paid significantly less to perform in the Legends slot – says: “It’s actually cost me £300,000 to do the show because I’ve got to bring all the band back from America and I’ve got to take them all the way back to America.”
He added to the Sidetracked podcast that he couldn’t even get any free tickets, saying: “Believe it or not, my kids, three of them, all bought their own tickets, because Glastonbury give nothing away. Nothing.Everybody asks me for tickets. All the time. Everywhere. People just come out of the woodwork. ‘Oh, you haven’t spoken to me for 25 years. Any chance I could have a ticket?’”
Rod also opened up about his 80th birthday in a separate interview with Zoe Ball. He said: “I love a shindig – we had a 280ft yacht – I rented it out for 10 days for all my kids and their kids and their husbands, 16 of us all together, and it cost me a fortune, but you can’t take it with me.”
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The rail-enthusiast singer, who is married to Penny Lancaster, added that he wasn’t easy to buy presents for unless it was “from the model railway world…and then I am very happy.”
The rocker also spoke about his training to stay in shape.
He said: “I’m making this documentary about all my training and what I do. I can run 100 meters in 19 seconds. The record is 17 seconds.”
His comments come after he was forced to cancel a series of shows, including those at his Las Vegas residency, as he was ill.
While he recently announced that his current tour will be the end of the ‘large-scale’ world tours, he has no intention to quit the music scene.
The rock legend previously wrote on Instagram : “This will be the end of large-scale world tours for me, but I have no desire to retire. I love what I do, and I do what I love. I’m fit, have a full head of hair, and can run 100 metres in 18 seconds at the jolly old age of 79.”
Yesterday Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis said they’d sold “a few thousand less tickets” this year in a bid to avoid overcrowding,
The music festival, which usually has capacity for 210,000 people, sees British pop band The 1975, folk star Neil Young and his band the Chrome Hearts, and US pop singer Olivia Rodrigo topping the bill.
She added: “We’ve also sold a few thousand less tickets, so it will be interesting just to see how that affects the dynamics on site.”
The first group of tickets for the event sold out in 30 minutes last November, with the second lot selling out in fewer than 40.
Eavis said times have changed, adding: “There were years where you just couldn’t sell out, you just couldn’t give them (the tickets) away.”
The line-up features a number of acts listed as TBA, as well as a mysterious act called Patchwork, who will take to the Pyramid Stage on Saturday.
Source: Mirror
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