Rod Stewart made a very awkward gaffe while introducing Lulu at Glastonbury as he headlined the Pyramid Stage’s Legends slot on Sunday evening.
The singer, 80, took to the stage at Worthy Farm performing to a massive crowd where he brought out three surprise guests.
However, Lulu’s entry didn’t go as smoothly as Rod had hoped as he introduced Ronnie Rood followed by Lulu.
He said: ‘Now it gives me really great pleasure to bring on two legends, first of all Ronnie Wood. Here he is put your hands together and the wonderful Lulu…’
As the stage fell silent, Rod looked around awkwardly for Lulu as she didn’t join him on stage.
He then added: ‘Oh yeah, Lulu is coming on next’, causing the crowd to laugh at the mistake.
Rod Stewart made an awkward gaffe while introducing Lulu at Glastonbury as he headline the Pyramid Stage’s legends slot on Sunday evening
The singer, 80, took to the stage at Worthy Farm performing to a massive crowd where he brought out three surprise guests
Rod continued, ‘Come on Ronnie lets do it like the old days son’, as the pair broke out with Ronnie playing guitar for him on a rendition of Stay With Me.
Rod passed the stage to Ronnie, who was dressed in a black sequin jacket, for a guitar solo and the old pals sang together on the chorus.
Following the track Scottish hitmaker Lulu, 76, joined them on stage, Rod said: ‘Come on Lulu baby, where is she’.
Running on stage, she replied: ‘You’re killing it’.
Lulu looked sensational in an all-white ensemble consisting of fringed trousers and a blazer as the duo got the crowd hyped up with a version of Hot Legs.
The Maggie May hitmaker, who commanded attention in a green suit, finished the track by saying: ‘What a girl! Come on big round of applause’.
Also during the set, Rod made sure to put on a jam packed performance with multiple costume changes and also brought out Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall, 65.
Running over by around five minutes, the hitmaker concluded: ‘Thank you Lulu, thank you Ronnie and Nick, I’ve got to get off the stage now so I’m going to leave you with this’, as he finished his set singing hit track Sailing.
However, Lulu’s entry didn’t go as smoothly as Rod had hoped as he introduced Ronnie Rood followed by Lulu
He said: ‘Now it gives me really great pleasure to bring on two legends, first of all Ronnie Wood . Here he is put your hands together and the wonderful Lulu…’
As the stage fell silent, Rod looked around awkwardly for Lulu as she didn’t join him on stage, he then added: ‘Oh yeah, Lulu is coming on next’, causing the crowd to laugh at the mistake
Later Scottish hitmaker Lulu, 76, joined them on stage, Rod said: ‘Come on Lulu baby, where is she’. Running on stage, she replied: ‘You’re killing it’
Viewers were distinctly split over Rod’s performance, with some praising him as a ‘total legend’ and proclaiming ‘he’s still got it’, while others branding him ‘painful’, ‘out of tune’ and like ‘a tribute act’.
Walking on stage with his huge band and mini-dressed clad backing singers to the sound of bag pipes, the 80-year-old rocker told the thousands gathered: ‘Oi Oi I’m here, enjoy yourselves ladies and gentlemen please!’
He kicked off his set with his hit Tonight I’m Yours before telling fans how ‘music brings us together, we’re having a party’ and going into Having A Party.
After a rendition of Some Guys Have All The Luck, he stopped to catch his breath and remove his sparkling jacket in the searing heat, telling fans: ‘This is so lovely. I’m so excited I can hardly breathe.’
Dipping into his bag of ballads, he did his version of First Cut Is The Deepest followed by his 1976 track, Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright).
After bringing out some his classic hits, including fan-favourite, Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?, Rod paid tribute to Glastonbury founder Sir Michael Eavis.
And Rod’s wife Penny Lancaster was ever the supporting partner as she took snaps of the rock star from the side of the stage.
Penny was joined by her sons, model Alistair, 19, who was wearing a leopard print coat in preparation for his father’s set and Aiden, 14.
Lulu looked sensational in an all-white ensemble consisting of fringed trousers and a blazer as the duo got the crowd hyped up with a version of Hot Legs
The Maggie May hitmaker, who commanded attention in a green suit, finished the track by saying: ‘What a girl! Come on big round of applause’
Lulu and Ronnie rocked out on stage with Rod during his incredible set
Lulu danced around in her bold white ensemble and a pair of sunglasses
Rod and Lulu belted out Hot Legs to the huge crowd at Worthy Farm
The matriarch, 54, looked very bohemian as she wore a tassel coat, oversized sunglasses, balloon trousers and a leopard print bag.
The 80-year-old singer’s teatime set comes the day after he claimed the country was ‘fed up’ with the Tories and that Labour was trying to ditch Brexit.
He accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of giving Scottish fishing rights ‘back to the EU’, although the Government insists it has simply renewed an existing deal for European boats.
His views represent a second volte-face given that he appeared to support Labour at last year’s election – despite previously backing the Conservatives.
Asked where Britain’s political future now lay, he told The Times: ‘It’s hard for me because I’m extremely wealthy, and I deserve to be, so a lot of it doesn’t really touch me.
‘But that doesn’t mean I’m out of touch. For instance, I’ve read about Starmer cutting off the fishing in Scotland and giving it back to the EU. That hasn’t made him popular.
‘We’re fed up with the Tories. We’ve got to give Farage a chance. He’s coming across well. What options have we got? I know some of his family, I know his brother, and I quite like him.’
Asked what Mr Farage stands for aside from Brexit, tighter immigration and controversial economic promises he replied: ‘Yeah, yeah. But Starmer’s all about getting us out of Brexit and I don’t know how he’s going to do that.
Also during the set, Rod made sure to put on a jam packed performance with multiple costume changes and also brought out Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall, 65
Running over by around five minutes, the hitmaker concluded: ‘Thank you Lulu, thank you Ronnie and Nick, I’ve got to get off the stage now so I’m going to leave you with this’, as he finished his set singing hit track Sailing
And Rod’s wife Penny Lancaster was ever the supporting partner as she took snaps of the rock star from the side of the stage
‘Still, the country will survive. It could be worse. We could be in the Gaza Strip.’
Sir Rod also seemed unconvinced that Sir Keir was going to fully address one of his personal pet hates.
Three years ago, the singer donned a hi-vis jacket and rang around friends asking for help filling in potholes outside his Essex house.
‘I took me Ferrari out. Nearly lost the f***ing wheel,’ he said.
‘And before I did in the Ferrari, I saw an ambulance that couldn’t move, the wheel stuck right in there.
‘So I took me mates out, and we knew what to do because I had builders in the house.
‘We filled in a considerable length of the road, actually.’
He added that potholes were still present ‘all over Britain’ in contrast to Europe.
