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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mark Beaumont

Rod Stewart’s Glastonbury legends slot feels like wringing out the dregs of a career

Read the room, Rod. To a slow-growing Pyramid Stage crowd – several regretting their choice of leopard-print leggings and mullet wig – Stewart arrives on a lavish Vegas stage in a Liberace jacket, fresh from pleading with the UK to “give Farage a chance”.

A chance to demonise immigrants, dismantle the NHS, ruin us all with die-bankrupt health insurance and let multi-millionaires off with a bargain bin one-off tax payment for life, yes? Looks like Rod the Selfish Sod will have to put on a barnstormer to carry off the most pre-tainted legend slot in Glastonbury history.

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