Glastonbury headliner Sir Rod Stewart cancels gig last minute due to illness
He's due on the Pyramid stage later this month.
Sir Rod Stewart has postponed a gig due to illness, weeks before he is due to take up the legends slot at Glastonbury Festival.
The Do Ya Think I’m Sexy hitmaker, 80, took to social media today to tell fans in Las Vegas that he would be postponing his gig this evening due to ill health.
‘I am sorry to inform you that I’m not feeling well and my show tonight at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace is being rescheduled to June 10. Your tickets will be valid for the new date,’ he said in an Instagram Story.
Sir Rod is billed to take to the stage at the Worthy Farm festival on Sunday June 29 in the afternoon, as is tradition for the legends slot.
The Maggie May hitmaker, who recently confirmed he will be joined on the Pyramid Stage by his former Faces bandmate Ronnie Wood, said he was ‘proud and ready’ to be filling the legends slot.
He rescheduled the gig to June 10 (Picture: Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns) Sir Rod posted this statement on social media‘After all these years, I’m proud and ready and more than able to take the stage again to pleasure and titillate my friends at Glastonbury in June. I’ll see you there!’ he wrote on social media in November, announcing the news.
This worrying update comes during a string of gigs for the busy rocker, as he’s due to perform at Caesars Palace on June 5, June 7, and June 8, before heading to California, Quebec City, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Philadelphia, New York, and Maryland, all ahead of his Glastonbury appearance later this month.
Last month, Rod was seen with a sign around his neck informing anyone he came into contact with that he could not speak after his concert at Milan’s Unipol Forum.
It read: ‘Sorry. Cannot talk. Having vocal rest.’
Sir Rod has an exceptionally busy June in the run up to Glastonbury (Picture: Gus Stewart/Redferns)He returned to the stage at the MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal, three days later on May 13.
The music veteran will be done with ‘large-scale world tours’ once he finishes this year’s shows in Europe and North America.
However, he has no plans to retire.
The You Wear It Well singer wrote on Instagram: ‘This will be the end of large-scale world tours for me, but I have no desire to retire’
In 2023, sources told The Mail Sir Rod’s eight kids were keen to see him hang up his microphone for good following ill health, which saw him cancel a show in Australia.
‘They are worried about him and want him to throw in the towel on music and retire on his own terms,’ the source told the outlet.
‘Their dad has devoted 50 years of his life to music and he has nothing left to prove to anyone.
Sir Rod has been performing for decades (Picture: Icon and Image/Getty Images)‘With his health issues, and considering his age, several of Sir Rod’s kids just think it is time for him to take a few years to focus on his health and his family – especially after the birth of his third grandbaby.’
Last year, Sir Rod confronted his own mortality in a candid interview as he approached 80.
‘We have all got to pass on at some point, so we are all in the same basket. I am going to be enjoying myself for these last few years as much as I can. I say few — probably another 15. I can do that easy mate, easy,’ he told The Sun.
However, Sir Rod did admit he’s slowed down somewhat since his rock n’ roll heyday.
‘I’m not like I was in the ’70s and ’80s and I can’t stay up all night, get drunk and go mad and still have a voice just like that. Nowadays I have to protect my voice before and after every show,’ he said.
But Sir Rod added: ‘But no, you think I just have water on my rider? You’re talking to Rod Stewart here, mate. We go mad after every show. There are 13 of us, six women, really great musicians and I make them drink. We absolutely love it.’
In 2019, Sir Rod revealed to shocked fans he had been battling prostate cancer for three years.
He was diagnosed during a routine check-up in 2016, and went into remission in July 2019.
This came two decades after he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2000.
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