Kendrick Lamar and Paul McCartney to Headline Glastonbury 2022
Both holdovers from the canceled 2020 festival, McCartney and Lamar will join Lorde, Megan Thee Stallion, Kacey Musgraves, Olivia Rodrigo, and more at Worthy Farm
Kendrick Lamar and Paul McCartney are the final headliners to be announced for this year’s Glastonbury festival, joining Billie Eilish. McCartney heads to Worthy Farm on Saturday, June 25, not long after wrapping his U.S. jaunt, with Lamar closing the stalwart British festival’s Pyramid Stage on the Sunday.
Other names in the announcement include Olivia Rodrigo, Lorde, Megan Thee Stallion, Kacey Musgraves, Big Thief, Haim, Charli XCX, Herbie Hancock, Phoebe Bridgers, Pet Shop Boys, the Avalanches, Caroline Polachek, Roísín Murphy, Black Midi, Caribou, St. Vincent, Cate le Bon, Foals, Jarv Is…, Doja Cat, Dry Cleaning, Idles, Courtney Barnett, Sleaford Mods, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Little Simz, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, Nubya Garcia, and Yves Tumor. Check out the bill so far, which also includes the previously announced Diana Ross, below. Many more acts for the sold-out festival will be announced in the coming months.
Between Eilish and McCartney, Glastonbury will be hosting its youngest and oldest ever headliners, The Guardian notes. Both Kendrick Lamar and McCartney had been slated to headline the 2020 festival, which was canceled due to the pandemic, along with last year’s. Taylor Swift is the only slated 2020 headliner not announced for this year’s festival.
McCartney teased the news last week with a charming Wordle-based riddle, punning on the 121-day countdown to his Glastonbury set. McCartney, who last headlined the festival in 2004, released his latest album, McCartney III, in 2020, before enlisting a host of collaborators (Beck, Phoebe Bridgers, St. Vincent, Devonté Hynes, Damon Albarn, and others) for a companion LP, McCartney III Imagined, the following year.
Read Pitchfork’s review of the Peter Jackson documentary on the making of Let It Be, “The Beatles: Get Back Rewrites the Fab Four’s Ending.” Plus, read “Waiting for Kendrick” on the Pitch.
