The rock star will now perform at the U.K. music festival after saying Tuesday he wouldn't be playing because Glastonbury was under the BBC's "corporate control."

Today (January 3), Neil Young has walked back his public boycott of Glastonbury 2025. Come June, festivalgoers can catch the “ Love Earth ” musician performing live on the Worthy Farm grounds as part of his band Chrome Hearts.

Neil Young announced on his website he would not be playing Glastonbury this year, citing 'corporate control' over the festival.

"We were told that BBC was now a partner in Glastonbury and wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in," Young said about the decision to not play with his new band, the Chrome Hearts.

Neil Young has changed his decision to pull out of Glastonbury 2025 and will now perform at the festival. unbranded - Entertainment unbranded - Entertainment

Bill Kelly After oscillating his involvement in the UK’s premiere Glastonbury Festival, June 25-29, 2025, veteran rocker Neil Young has

The Canadian rocker had initially called the festival a "corporate turn-off" earlier this week, blaming the BBC's involvement at the event.

Young will return to the festival despite writing this week that it had come “under corporate control” by the BBC

Neil Young has confirmed that he and his band the Chrome Hearts will in fact headline this year’s Glastonbury festival, clarifying in an online statement he had received “an error in the information” that had prompted him to pull out of the festival earlier this week.