Neil Young pulls out of Glastonbury 2025: “It is a corporate turn-off”

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Neil Young has said that he has decided to pull out of Glastonbury 2025 as he feels it has become “a corporate turn-off”.The festival returns to Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset from June 25 this year, but no acts have been confirmed for the line-up so far – apart from Rod Stewart, who will play the Sunday afternoon Legends Slot.A number of high-profile names have been speculated upon as possible headliners, with Young among them, and now it appears that the rock legend has confirmed that he had provisionally agreed to be on the bill, only to later change his mind.Writing on his website Neil Young Archives on Tuesday (December 31), he said: “The Chrome Hearts and I were looking forward to playing Glastonbury, one of my all time favorite outdoor gigs.

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.”“It seems Glastonbury is now under corporate control and is not the way I remember it being,” he continued. “Thanks for coming to see us the last time!”“We will not be playing Glastonbury on this tour because it is a corporate turn-off, and not for me like it used to be.

Hope to see you at one of the other venues on the tour.”Glastonbury have not yet commented on Young’s comments, and it is not clear what requests the BBC had made to Young.

NME have contacted Glastonbury for a response.Young headlined the Pyramid Stage in 2009, after being scheduled to do so 12 years earlier, only to be forced to pull out through injury.