Rolling Stones to celebrate 50 years at Glastonbury

THE Rolling Stones were finally confirmed as headliners for this summer’s Glastonbury Festival last night after months of rumours.

Mumford & Sons and the Arctic Monkeys will also headline the Pyramid Stage, while Primal Scream, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Elvis Costello are among the big names heading to the festival.

The Stones have not played Glasto before but their name became linked to the event late last year, when it emerged they were getting together for 50th anniversary shows. They will play the festival on Saturday, 29 June.

Glastonbury, being staged over the final weekend of June, took a year off in 2012 due to the Olympics and to allow the farmland to recover.

This year’s Glastonbury is already a sell-out, with about 135,000 tickets going in the space of less than two hours. However, there will be some resales next month.

Also appearing on the Pyramid will be Rita Ora, Jake Bugg, Rufus Wainwright and festival veteran Billy Bragg.

Big names on the Other Stage include Portishead – almost 20 years after they released their debut album Dummy – along with Smashing Pumpkins, Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J and John Lydon’s band PiL. The xx, the Lumineers, Alabama Shakes and Foals are also on the bill.

Elsewhere on the huge site in Somerset there will be performances by 70s disco pioneers Chic, Tom Tom Club, rap stalwarts Public Enemy, Dinosaur Jr, the Horrors and Johnny Marr.