Nana is a Glast from the past

LEGEND SLOT FOR STAR

GLASTONBURY has lined up its oldest-ever headline act – 82-year-old Nana Mouskouri.

The festival has become a pensioners’ paradise of late, with The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones and Dolly Parton among its wrinkly stars.

At 85, blues guitarist BB King became the oldest-ever performer in 2009.

But at 82, Nana will become the most senior headline act.

She is being lined up for the prestigious Sunday afternoon slot, now dubbed the “legends’ spot”.

It has previously featured Dolly, Lionel Ritchie and Paul Simon and usually attracts the biggest crowd of the festival.

Glasto boss Michael Eavis, who is 81, is a fan of the Greek superstar and wants to see her lead festival goers in a singalong of her 1985 track Only Love, which was a No.2 hit in the UK.

A source said: “Michael isn’t getting any younger himself. He has a wishlist of artists he’d like to see at the festival before he calls it quits and Nana is on there. This year is likely to be her turn. “She’s not getting any younger either, so she’s likely to agree.” Only Love was Nana’s biggest hit in Britain and was the theme song to the TV series Mistral’s Daughter and she also recorded it in French, Italian, Spanish and German. She is the second highest-selling female artist ever, behind Madonna, and has sold hundreds of millions of records. Her easy listening music was so popular in the UK in the 60s and 70s that she got her own BBC TV show, Presenting Nana Mouskouri. She also represented Greece as a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 until 1999. Nana – who now lives in Geneva, Switzerland – announced her retirement from music in 2004. But she returned 10 years later for a tour of Australia and has been performing one-off concerts since then.