Sir Rod Stewart shared a sweet snap of his lookalike sons Alistair and Aidan watching their ‘old dad’ take to Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage for the Legends slot on Sunday.
The rocker, 80, who shares the teens with wife Penny Lancaster, 54, took to his Instagram with the photo of the lads beaming proudly in the crowd.
Aidan, 14, sat on elder brothers Alistair’s shoulders for the set, while the 19-year-old wore a shirt from his father’s beloved Celtics football team around his neck.
Father-of-eight Rod captioned the snap: ‘Two of my precious children at @glastofest giving their old dad support. Alastair and Aiden Love ya boys !!’.
The Maggie May hitmaker is also father to daughters Sarah, 61, Kimberly, 45, Ruby, 37, and Renee, 33 as well as sons Sean, 44, and Liam, 30.
During his performance Rod made his own political statement on the final day of a festival that has been dominated by controversy.
Sir Rod Stewart, 80, shared a sweet snap of his lookalike sons Alistair, 19, and Aidan, 14, watching their ‘old dad’ take to Glastonbury ‘s Pyramid stage for the Legends slot on Sunday
The rocker who shares the teens with wife Penny Lancaster , 54, took to his Instagram with the photo of the lads beaming proudly in the crowd
Earlier in the weekend, punk duo Bob Vylan led revellers in a chant of ‘death to the IDF’ prompting condemnation from Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who branded the remarks ‘appalling’, and triggering a police probe.
The UK’s self-proclaimed ‘most violent band’ also sang the words ‘free, free Palestine’ and declared ‘from the river to the sea Palestine…will be free’, a chorus regarded by many in the Jewish communitiy as a call for Israel’s elimination.
On the same day, Naoise O Caireallain, a singer in controversial Irish group Kneecap, urged the crowd to ‘riot’ outside Westminster magistrates in August when bandmate Liam O’hAnnaidh’s terror offence charge returns to court.
Pop star JADE, meanwhile, led an enthusiastic crowd at her set in chanting ‘f**k you’ towards ‘Reform, welfare cuts, transphobia, silencing protests, selling arms and justifying genocide’.
But Rod, who backed Reform in a recent interview with The Times, had a different message for the masses at Worthy Farm on Sunday as he dedicated a song to Ukraine while also acknowledging the conflict in the Middle East.
The crooner, dedicated a cover of The O’Jays 1972 hit Love Train to the eastern European country, amid its ongoing war with Russia.
Rod addressed the crowd: ‘There’s been a lot about the Middle East lately, quite rightly so, but I want to draw your attention to the Ukraine with the next song, called The Love Train.’
The Do Ya Think I’m Sexy singer’s forray into politics comes after he urged voters to give Nigel Farage’s nascent party a chance as he criticised both Sir Keir and the Conservatives.
The perfomance saw Rod belt out all his classic hits for the huge Glastonbury crowd
He was joined ion stage by special guest and fellow legend Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood (R)
Also making an appearance was iconic Scottish singer Lulu
Rod’s wife Penny Lancaster was pictured at the front of the barricade waiting for his set to begin amongst ravers
The proud wife was snapped as she filmed her husband’s incredible performance in the Legend’s slot to a packed crowd
Rod shares eight children with five mothers (pictured with sons Sean, Aiden, wife Penny and Alastair, Liam, daughter-in-law Nicole, grandson Louie, daughter Renee, ex Rachel Hunter and daughter Ruby)
In particular, he was critical of the Prime Minister’s decision to cut off fishing in Scotland and give it back to the EU, saying this move has not made him popular.
He also thinks the nation is fed up with the Tories.
The rock legend said: ‘We’ve got to give Farage a chance. He’s coming across well. Nigel? What options have we got? I know some of his family, I know his brother, and I quite like him.’
He also explained he doesn’t think he is out of touch with ordinary people, even though he is ‘extremely wealthy’.
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.
‘Still, the country will survive. It could be worse. We could be in the Gaza Strip.’
His views represent a second volte-face given that he appeared to support Labour at last year’s election – despite previously backing the Conservatives.
Sir Rod also seemed unconvinced 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.’
During his performance Rod made his own political statement on the final day of a festival that has been dominated by controversy
Earlier in the weekend, punk duo Bob Vylan, including lead singer Bobby Vylan, pictured, led revellers in a chant of ‘death to the IDF’
The UK’s self-proclaimed ‘most violent band’ also sang the words ‘free, free Palestine’
Rod, pictured with Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood onstage on Sunday, had a different message, dedicating a song to Ukraine
He added that potholes were still present ‘all over Britain’ in contrast to Europe.
Rod’s political message came after police launched a probe into comments made by Bob Vylan, who led chants of ‘Free Palestine‘ and ‘Death to the IDF’, on stage yesterday afternoon.
The singer from the band, who keeps his identity secret, also declared ‘from the river to the sea Palestine… will be free’.
The BBC also weighed in on the saga, adding of Bob Vylan: ‘Some of the comments made during Bob Vylan’s set were deeply offensive.
‘During this live stream on iPlayer, which reflected what was happening on stage, a warning was issued on screen about the very strong and discriminatory language.
‘We have no plans to make the performance available on demand.’
Meanwhile, Irish language rap trio Kneecap were not streamed live by the BBC – but the broadcaster faced calls, including from Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch, for the band to be dropped after one member was charged with a terror offence.
The group’s lead rapper O’Hanna, 27, whose stage name is Mo Chara, is on unconditional bail after being charged with terrorism for supporting Hezbollah, a proscribed terrorist organisation.
