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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Nadeem Badshah and Laura Snapes

Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar to headline Glastonbury 2022

Glastonbury 2022 headliners Megan Thee Stallion, Paul McCartney, Kendrick Lamar, Kacey Musgrave and Olivia Rodrigo. McCartney and Lamar had been slated to headline Glastonbury's 50th anniversary festival in 2020, which was cancelled due to the pandemic.
(Clockwise, from left) Megan Thee Stallion, Paul McCartney, Kendrick Lamar, Kacey Musgrave and Olivia Rodrigo are among the stars announced for the first Glastonbury Festival since 2019. Composite: AP/Getty/PA

Paul McCartney, Kendrick Lamar and Olivia Rodrigo have been announced as among the stars performing at this summer’s Glastonbury festival.

Out of the 89 names announced so far, 48 are women or acts that include female artists, meeting festival co-organiser Emily Eavis’s previously stated intention for Glastonbury to achieve gender parity on its bill. “Our future has to be 50/50,” she told the BBC in 2020.

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