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Despite a year of rumours, Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis has stated that Fleetwood Mac will not be headlining the festival in 2014.
The classic rock legends have been tipped as favourites to top the bill at Worthy Farm next summer - to the extent that bookmakers suspended bets on them headlining the Pyramid Stage at one point.
However, when asked by The Guardian if Fleetwood Mac would be playing Glastonbury, Eavis responded: "We're hoping to get them for 2015, but not next year."
Earlier this year, Fleetwood Mac were forced to cancel their tour of Australia and new Zealand after founding member John McVie was diagnosed with cancer. The band released an official statement via their Facebook page:
"We are sorry to not be able to play these Australian and New Zealand dates. We hope our Australian and New Zealand fans as well as Fleetwood Mac fans everywhere will join us in wishing John and his family all the best."
Speaking to Gigwise earlier this year, we asked drummer Mick Fleetwood if the band had any plans to play festivals next summer.
"I hope so, I would love that," he said. "This has been a tough year on the road, but having said that, the boys in the band are hoping that our lady will think kindly about doing a few of the festivals."
He continued: "We've been thinking of doing some more work in interesting places. On this tour we didn't play in Italy, but Stevie said 'ah, I'd like to play in Italy' and I said 'well, maybe we can', so we were joking about that.
"We were asked to do some lovely festivals this year and it didn't work out. Once you do the festivals then you can't really do a tour of the other towns. We were asked to do Glastonbury this year and hopefully they'll ask us again."
When asked about the possibility of playing Glastonbury 2014, Fleetwood replied: "I don't know - they've probably got fed up of asking us!"
Tickets to Glastonbury 2014 sold out in a record-breaking 87 minutes. More tickets will on sale in the Spring. Arcade Fire have been confirmed as headliners, while other acts tipped to top the bill include Foo Fighters, Depeche Mode, Prince, Daft Punk and Elbow.
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