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Lucy Needham

Sir Paul McCartney 'confirms' Glastonbury headline slot with cryptic tweet

Sir Paul McCartney has led fans to believe he will be headlining this year's Glastonbury Festival after sharing a cryptic Twitter post.

The singer tweeted a black and white photograph featuring American composer and pianist Philip Glass, Hollywood star Emma Stone and musician Chuck Berry.

Repeated together their surnames - Glass, Stone and Berry - could be taken to mean he is hinting at the word Glastonbury.

And fans certainly seemed to think so as they responded to his message with a huge outpouring of delight.

"PAUL IS HEADLINING GLASTONBURY HOLY S***" cried one.

"Very cool, Paul," one told him in appreciation of the announcement.

"Ok, now I need to somehow magically get a Glastonbury ticket," added another.

Fans took the tweet to mean Paul will be playing Glastonbury 2020 (Getty Images North America)

The 77-year-old Beatles legend has long been rumoured to headline the festival this year for the 50th anniversary.

He last played the festival in 2004.

Diana Ross is the only name confirmed on the line-up for 2020 after she revealed last month that she will be playing the coveted Legends slot.

Tickets for next year sold out in just 34 minutes in October, with a reported 2.4million people battling to take one of the 135,000 available spots.

Diana Ross was the first name to be confirmed on the eagerly awaited Glasto line-up (Rob Latour/REX/Shutterstock)

Rumoured to be joining Ms Ross on the Pyramid Stage next year are big name acts including Fleetwood Mac and Madonna.

Macca teased last month that he was 'starting to think' if he would be up for appearing on the bill.

Speaking on the Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2, Sir Paul said: "It's starting to become some remote kind of possibility."

He added: "People are saying that it will be good if I did it, so I'm starting to think about whether I can or whether it would be a good thing.

"My kids are saying, 'Dad, we've got to talk about Glastonbury', and I think I know what they mean.

"We played there quite a long time ago so maybe it is time to go back. I don't know. I'd have to put a few things in place."

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