Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage will be decorated with a giant lightning bolt in tribute to David Bowie, organiser Emily Eavis has informed the BBC.

The metal sculpture, inspired by the sleeve for the David Bowie Aladdin Sane album, will hang above headline actsdavid bowie heroes Coldplay and Adele when they play the stage in June. The Park Stage will also host a performance of Philip Glass’s Symphony No 4, based on the David Bowie Heroes album.

Emily Eavis also confirmed plans were underway for a Prince tribute. Prince, who died last month at the age of 57, had long been rumoured as a potential headliner at the Glastonbury festival. Emily Eavis confirmed his appearance had been “close to happening for three years” and called his death “a huge loss to music”. David Bowie had performed on several occasions going back as far as the inaugural Glastonbury festival in 1971.