--- title: Stephen Hawking to Perform at Glastonbury Festival description: The world-renowned physicist will attend alongside Kanye West, The Who, Pharrell Williams and more canonical: https://time.com/3856038/stephen-hawking-glastonbury-festival/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-12T20:11:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:42.012Z og:title: Stephen Hawking Will appear at England's Glastonbury Festival og:description: The world-renowned physicist will attend alongside Kanye West, The Who and more og:url: https://time.com/3856038/stephen-hawking-glastonbury-festival/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42db246cd25875e1/6987ed032dce0162169e181a/stephen-hawking-one-direction.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Stephen Hawking attends "Interstellar Live" at Royal Albert Hall on March 30, 2015 in London, England. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Hawking Will appear at England's Glastonbury Festival twitter:description: The world-renowned physicist will attend alongside Kanye West, The Who and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42db246cd25875e1/6987ed032dce0162169e181a/stephen-hawking-one-direction.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stephen Hawking Will Appear at England's Glastonbury Festival ## Video: THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Film Clip [Watch (HLS stream): THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Film Clip](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/3QjXQccP.m3u8) (1:01)  _Published 2014-10-22. THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Film Clip_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 12, 2015 8:11 PM UTC  Stephen Hawking attends "Interstellar Live" at Royal Albert Hall on March 30, 2015 in London, England. Stephen Hawking attends "Interstellar Live" at Royal Albert Hall on March 30, 2015 in London, England.Dave J Hogan—Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 12, 2015 8:11 PM UTC The lineup for this year’s Glastonbury Festival, held in Somerset, England, is growing more and more diverse. Headliners include Kanye West, Foo Fighters and The Who, and now, a new performer has been announced: Stephen Hawking. The famous physicist will appear at the festival’s Kidz Field, according to [an announcement](http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/2015-kidz-field-line-up-announced-with-stephen-hawking-and-dynamo/) on the Glastonbury website. No word yet on what exactly his set will entail. Maybe he’ll perform [his _Monty Python_ cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcC6FYyL4U). Maybe he’ll get [Pink Floyd to perform with him](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pink-floyds-the-endless-river-to-feature-stephen-hawking-20141008). Or maybe he’ll just regale the kiddos with his brilliant musings about the universe. The festival runs June 24-28. _Read next:_ [_Read Stephen Hawking’s Sweet Note to Eddie Redmayne After His Oscar Win_](http://time.com/3719584/eddie-redmayne-best-actor-oscar-stephen-hawking/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3856038/stephen-hawking-glastonbury-festival/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3856038/stephen-hawking-glastonbury-festival/"},"headline":"Stephen Hawking Will Appear at England's Glastonbury Festival","datePublished":"2015-05-12T20:11:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:42.012Z","description":"The world-renowned physicist will attend alongside Kanye West, The Who, Pharrell Williams and more","url":"https://time.com/3856038/stephen-hawking-glastonbury-festival/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42db246cd25875e1/6987ed032dce0162169e181a/stephen-hawking-one-direction.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42db246cd25875e1/6987ed032dce0162169e181a/stephen-hawking-one-direction.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Stephen Hawking attends \"Interstellar Live\" at Royal Albert Hall on March 30, 2015 in London, England.","caption":"Stephen Hawking attends \"Interstellar Live\" at Royal Albert Hall on March 30, 2015 in London, England.","creditText":"Dave J Hogan—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3856038/stephen-hawking-glastonbury-festival/","name":"Stephen Hawking Will Appear at England's Glastonbury Festival"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Film Clip","description":"THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Film Clip","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/3QjXQccP/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-10-22T12:28:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/3QjXQccP.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3856038/stephen-hawking-glastonbury-festival/","duration":"PT1M1S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3856038/stephen-hawking-glastonbury-festival/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```