United Kingdom, June 23 -- Emily Eavis was determined to book Neil Young as a Glastonbury headliner this year to mark her dad Michael Eavis' 90th birthday.

The festival creator reaches the milestone age on October 17 and his daughter Emily, 45, wanted to ensure she could get Young - one of her father's "favourite artists of all time" - to perform at the festival to celebrate his 90th year.

In an interview with Cosmopolitan, she said: "Neil Young is one of my dad's favourite artists of all time, and mine. We've sort of grown up with him. He played in 2009, and it was an incredible set, so getting him back has been a really important thing for us - and especially in my dad's 90th year to have him back singing all his beautiful songs will ...