Sir Paul McCartney has confirmed that he is the first of next year’s Glastonbury headliners.
The former Beatles singer teased that he was performing at the festival in a less-than-subtle Instagram post on Monday morning, sharing photos of composer Philip Glass, actress Emma Stone and musician Chuck Berry, leading many of his fans to suspect he was alluding to next year’s festival (Glass, Stone, Berry – get it?).
Hours later, the official Glastonbury Twitter page confirmed the news, in a post which read: “We are incredibly excited to announce that @PaulMcCartney will headline the Pyramid Stage on the Saturday night of Glastonbury 2020.”
He added: “Hey Glasto - excited to be part of your Anniversary celebrations. See ya next summer!”
Sir Paul has headlined Glastonbury once before, closing the show on the Pyramid Stage in 2004, playing an epic set that spanned his entire career, from the Beatles and Wings through to his solo material.
Earlier this year, he told Radio 2: “People are saying that it will be good if I did [Glastonbury again], so I’m starting to think about whether I can or whether it would be a good thing … It’s starting to become some remote kind of possibility.”
So far, Sir Paul is the only one of next year’s headliners to have been confirmed, although Diana Ross has confirmed she’ll be performing in this year’s “Legends” slot, following Kylie Minogue’s critically-lauded Glastonbury set over the summer.
Festival organiser Emily Eavis previously revealed that of the three Pyramid Stage headliners taking to the stage next year, two of them have never performed at the festival before, later pledging to make the line-up “as close to” a 50/50 gender split as possible.
The news comes almost exactly a year after Stormzy was revealed to be the first of this year’s headliners, in posters put in the windows of Oxfam shops around the country.
The grime star won huge praise for his Glastonbury set, with The Killers and The Cure filling the remaining two headlining slots.