Neil Young says he has pulled out of a scheduled efficiency at Glastonbury 2025 due to the BBC’s partnership with the pageant. In a weblog submit on Tuesday (December 31), Young lamented that the broadcasting firm, which is government-owned, had taken “corporate control” of the famously anti-commercial, nonprofit UK pageant, which neither hosts model partnerships (apart from with some media retailers) nor permits advertisements on-site, aside from these of chosen charities. But the BBC, stated Young, “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.”
Young, who headlined the pageant in 2009, greater than a decade after the BBC partnership started, added that it had been “one of [his] all-time favorite outdoor gigs,” however was now “a corporate turn-off.” His stand towards one of many world’s most beloved festivals—which final 12 months donated some $6.4 million to charities, The Guardian notes—is the most recent in a collection of objections to the music business at giant, notably taking concern with Spotify and Ticketmaster.
The solely performer to have been formally confirmed for Glastonbury 2025 is Rod Stewart, who will play the Sunday-afternoon legends slot.
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