Glastonbury 2025: Watch Rod Stewart’s barnstorming rendition of ‘Maggie May’
Rod Stewart performed the coveted ‘legend’s slot’ at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. The 80-year-old rock star wasn’t afraid to give the fans all the hits as he rattled off the classic ‘Maggie May’.
He was in fine form, having already toured extensively this year, and he relished the occasion on the Pyramid Stage, performing a career-spanning set with plenty of his trademark wit thrown in for good measure as the tired Sunday crowd applauded.
The former Faces singer drew a mammoth crowd to the main stage as fans got to enjoy an array of classic tracks. He is followed later today by Nile Rodgers and Chic, Noah Kahan, and the final headliner, Olivia Rodrigo.
They will all do well to match the enthusiasm that ‘Maggie May’ was met with. Prior to the performance, he joked, “I just wish they wouldn’t call it the tea time slot.” Adding, “That sounds like pipe and slippers, doesn’t it?”
Even at 80, he was keen to dismiss that image, telling the BBC that he can still “run 100 metres in 19 seconds”. It’s not quite Usain Bolt pace, but it is more than enough to enable him to rattle through a set half the length of what he has been performing on tour lately.
However, he did manage to get the organisers to extend his proposed 75-minute set by another 15 minutes. This allowed him to comfortably squeeze in crackers like ‘Young Turks’ and ‘You Wear It Well’, as he waltzed through a career that began way back in 1964 when he played harmonica on Millie Small’s ‘My Boy Lollipop’.
Since then, he has become one of the best-selling artists of all time. Along the way, he has toured extensively, playing ‘Maggy May’ a whopping 1710 times, counting this latest rendition. However, he won’t have played it to many bigger crowds than the one that gathered before him this sunny Sunday.
You can watch him performing the classic ‘Maggy May’ below.
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