«Breaking News» Stevie Wonder is the final headliner of this year's BST festival with special guest Lionel Richie

Stevie Wonder is the fifth and final headliner to be announced for this year's British Summer Time festival.

The legendary musician, 68, will bring his Song Party show - a Celebration of Life, Love and Music - to London's Hyde Park on July 6 with special guest Lionel Richie.

This will be the first time Stevie has performed the show in the UK, and it promises to include all the greatest hits from his illustrious career.

Headline: Stevie Wonder is the fifth and final headliner to be announced for this year's British Summer Time festival

Speaking during a show in the US, the artist said: 'We're living in a time where there's so much is going on in the world. 

'But the one thing that we know for sure that we can celebrate is life, love and music. 

'I'm very thankful that you all have been so wonderful to me, giving me your life and allowing me to share my music with you since I was 11 years old, which was just a little ago. 

'So, we're just going to play and have fun.' 

First: This will be the first time Stevie has performed his Song Party show in the UK, and it promises to include all the greatest hits from his career (pictured in September 2018)

Barclaycard's British Summer Time Hyde Park takes place in London over two weeks in July.

Stevie will follow on from Celine Dion, who is set to perform an open-air concert on Friday, July 5 with unannounced special guests. 

A performance by Broadway legend Barbra Streisand will complete the weekend on Sunday, July 7.

The festival will continue on Saturday, July 13 with headliner Florence and the Machine. The band will be joined by The National, Lykke Li, Khruangbin, Blood Orange and more. 

Special guest: The legendary musician, 68, will bring his Song Party show - a Celebration of Life, Love and Music - to Hyde Park in London on July 6 with special guest Lionel Richie

Festival: Barclaycard's British Summer Time Hyde Park takes place in London over two weeks in July (Stevie Wonder and Lionel Richie pictured with Lenny Kravitz in February 2016)

And on Sunday, July 14 Robbie Williams will close the festival in his only open-air performance of the year. He will share the Great Oak stage with the Black Eyed Peas, Keane, Texas and Feeder. 

Stevie Wonder is one of the most celebrated figures in popular music who, at the age of 12, became the youngest recording artist to have achieved a Number One single with 'Fingertips, Part 2'.

To date he has amassed 49 Top Forty singles, 32 Number One singles and worldwide sales of over 100 million albums. 

The musician has also won an impressive 25 Grammy Awards, the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award throughout his career.

Tickets for the festival go on sale at 9am on Friday, March 29. 

Don't delay! Tickets for the highly anticipated festival go on sale at 9am on Friday, March 29

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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.

Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.

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