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    Neil Young to play Glastonbury in reversal of decision to pull out over BBC 'corporate control'

    The Canadian singer of Heart of Gold and Harvest Moon says he will now appear at the UK festival after earlier criticising the festival's partnership with the BBC.


    Canadian-American singer-songwriter Neil Young will play the UK's Glastonbury Festival after earlier declaring he would not appear, saying the event was under "corporate control".

    "Due to an error in the information received, I had decided to not play the Glastonbury festival, which I always have loved," Young wrote in a post on his website.

    "Happily, the festival is now back on our itinerary and we look forward to playing! Hope to see you there!" the 79-year-old said.

    Young had earlier announced in a now-deleted post on his website that he and his band the Chrome Hearts would not be playing Glastonbury as the festival was under "corporate control" and "not the way I remember it being".

    "We were told that BBC was now a partner in Glastonbury and wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in," he wrote.

    Young has not clarified what the error was that lead to his call to return to the five-day festival, which welcomes over 200,000 punters each year in Somerset in south-west England.

    Emily Eavis, the festival's organiser and daughter of founder Michael Eavis, confirmed in an Instagram post that Young and his band would return to the Pyramid stage in June.

    "[Young] does things his own way and that's why we love him," she said.

    The singer of Heart of Gold and Harvest Moon last played Glastonbury in 2009.

    The only other confirmed act for Glastonbury's 2025 event is Rod Stewart, who was announced in November to play the Sunday legends slot.

    Tickets for the festival, which has been running since 1970, went on sale in November and sold out in 35 minutes.


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