Stevie Wonder returns to headline BST Hyde Park 6 years after emotional performance

Stevie Wonder is coming to Hyde Park in July (Picture: Getty)

The legend that is Stevie Wonder is the final headliner to be confirmed for the 2025 BST Hyde Park line up.

Stevie will take to the stage on Saturday 12 July as part of his LOVE, LIGHT + SONG UK 2025 series, joining other artists confirmed as headliners including Zach Bryan, Olivia Rodrigo, Noah Kahan, Sabrina Carpenter, Neil Young, and Jeff Lynne’s ELO.

The Superstition hitmaker, 74, last performed at the London festival – which takes place over several weekends this summer – in 2016 and 2019.

The 25-time Grammy award-winning musician will also be performing at Lancashire’s Lytham Festival on Thursday July 3 alongside Kings of Leon, Justin Timberlake, Alanis Morissette, Texas, and Simple Minds.

During his UK trip, Stevie will also head to Manchester’s Co-op Live, Birmingham’s Utilita Arena and Cardiff’s Blackweir Fields in July.

At the age of 12, Stevie became the youngest ever recording artist to achieve a number 1 single with Fingertips Park 2 in 1962, and he went on to amass 49 Top 40 singles, 32 number one singles, and has achieved over 100million units of sales worldwide.

Stevie will be headlining on July 12 (Picture: Lester Cohen/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

He is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, so both LythamFestival and BST Hyde Park have hit the jackpot in securing him for their 2025 lineups.

This confirmation comes after Glastonbury announced its 2025 lineup, including two BST headliners Olivia Rodrigo and Neil Young, as well as Charli XCX and The 1975.

While Stevie was rumoured to be on the Worthy Farm lineup, it seems fans will be flocking to see him in London and Lancashire instead.

During Stevie’s 2019 BST Hyde Park show, the star announced he would not be returning to the stage for the foreseeable future so he could undergo a kidney transplant.

‘I am going to have a kidney transplant in September of this year,’ he said at the end of the show to the Hyde Park crowd.

The star last performed at BST Hyde Park in 2019 (Picture: Lester Cohen/Getty Images for Wonder Productions)

‘I’m all good, I’m all good, all good, I have a donor and it’s all good.

‘I want you to know, I came here to give you my love and thank you for your love. You ain’t got to hear no rumours, I told you what’s up, I am good.

‘I love you and God bless you.’

Just 10 months after his transplant, Stevie revealed he felt 30 years younger and he was back on stage in no time.

The Isn’t She Lovely singer said in October 2020: ‘I was blessed with a new kidney and that happened on December 6, 2019 … I feel great. My voice feels great.

‘I told my daughter Aisha, “I’m going to be like five years younger than you now. I’m going from being 70 to being 40.” I feel like I’m about 40 right now. I’m feeling great.’

In 2024, Stevie announced a surprise 10-date US tour in the run up to the presidential elections, which he called Sing Your Song! As We Fix Our Nation’s Broken Heart.

The announcement said the tour was a call for ‘joy over anger, kindness over recrimination, peace over war’.

Tickets for Stevie Wonder’s performance at BST Hyde Park and Lytham Festival go on general sale at 10am GMT on Friday 21 March.

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