Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart, 80, croons through nostalgia and rain at Glastonbury in Celtic green

Rod Stewart, 80, steps onto the Glastonbury stage in a Celtic shirt, playing to a crowd already half-seduced by nostalgia and rain. He brings with him a parade of music legends, each appearance functioning more like a wink to memory than a claim to current relevance.

Between tracks, he dedicates a song to yet another icon, folding tribute into performance with the air of someone who’s danced this circuit before. “Music brings us together,” he tells the soaked audience, as though that line hadn't already been printed on at least seven T-shirts.

Rod Stewart Skips the Trump Chorus, Cites Misogyny Over “Man’s Man” Charms

Rod Stewart, a onetime Mar-a-Lago neighbor of Donald Trump, admits he once found the former president's "man's man" bravado mildly appealing. But for Stewart, the bromance fades on the subject of misogyny.

With a casual candor that sidesteps needless nostalgia, he states Trump “didn’t, as far as I’m concerned, treat women very well,” drawing a clean line between charisma and character flaws. No love lost, no choruses sung.