Neil Young announced on his website he would not be playing Glastonbury this year, citing 'corporate control' over the festival.

Rock legend Neil Young has pulled out of Glastonbury, the most notable music festival in England, citing BBC's "corporate control."

Neil Young and his band The Chrome Hearts are no longer playing at this year’s Glastonbury music festival, the rock legend has announced. Young said in a statement posted to his official website that his reason for backing out of his set is because of requests made by the festival’s corporate partner,

Neil Young has pulled out of this year's Glastonbury Festival, blaming the BBC's "corporate control" for his decision. The musician said he and his band, the Chrome Hearts, would not be performing at the famed U.

"We were told that BBC was now a partner in Glastonbury and wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in," said Young, who headlined Glastonbury in 2009. "It seems Glastonbury is now under corporate control and is not the way I remember it being.

He continued, "We will not be playing Glastonbury on this tour because it is a corporate turn-off, and not for me like it used to be. Hope to see you at one of the other venues on

Neil Young has never been one to do anything he did not want to. So single-minded is he that, in 1976, he abandoned a tour with Stephen Stills on his way to a gig in Atlanta because he was bored. The first his erstwhile bandmate knew about his abandonment of the tour three months before it was meant to end came in a terse telegram: “Dear Stephen,