Sir Rod Stewart has made a candid admission about dying, simply days earlier than he’s as a consequence of take to the stage on the Glastonbury Pageant. The 80-year-old singer, who final carried out on the Pyramid Stage in 2002, was introduced because the official headliner for the Legend’s slot for the enduring competition at Worthy Farm, Somerset. Talking in an unique interview with Radio Instances, Rod spoke about his roots dwelling above his Scottish dad’s newsagents in Archway, and that he acquired a job working at Highgate Cemetery, adopted by a day job at a funeral parlour. Talking of the latter, he stated it was an “terrible expertise”. 

He stated, “We have been beatniks and all had lengthy hair, so we couldn’t get jobs. So my mates arrange an image framing enterprise. And downstairs was a funeral parlour, and to get a job within the framer’s, you needed to lay within the coffin for ten minutes. They’d nail you in. That was the initiation. F***ing terrible expertise!”

He then expressed his basic angle in the direction of dying, to which Rod replied, “It is unavoidable! I don’t fear any greater than anyone else. However you possibly can preserve your self match.

“I’m shocked at what number of males are so frightened of going to the physician’s. I had prostate most cancers and I inform individuals: go to the physician – finger up the bum, no hurt finished.” 

Sir Rod was identified with thyroid most cancers in 2000 earlier than he battled prostate most cancers in 2016. The rock legend revealed in 2019 that he had been given “the all clear”. 

He stated to The Mirror, “No-one is aware of this, however I assumed this was about time I advised everyone. I am within the clear, now, just because I caught it early. I’ve so many exams.” 

Rod added, “If you happen to’re optimistic, and you’re employed by means of it and you retain a smile in your face… I’ve labored for 2 years and I’ve simply been comfortable, and the nice Lord taken care of me.”

He then urged his followers to go and get checked, “Guys, you have to actually go to the physician.”