Snoop Dog to play Glastonbury

Snoop Dogg is being lined up to perform at the upcoming Glastonbury music festival.

The iconic British outdoor event is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and organiser Michael Eavis is keen to make it the biggest ever. U2, Stevie Wonder and Muse have already been confirmed as performers, with Michael certain adding Snoop to the bill is just what the festival needs.

In 2008, the decision to sign rapper Jay-Z as a headline act at the event sparked controversy. Many claimed Glastonbury should be about rock music, but organisers refused to back down and jay-Z's set eventually went down a storm.

"My daughter Emily is a bright girl and she is very keen on Snoop Dogg doing the show, so we want him," Michael told British newspaper The Sun. "Her real claim to fame is booking Jay-Z. She came up with the idea so I phoned his manager. At the end of a 40-minute chat he said Jay-Z would do the show, and the rest is history."

Snoop had been banned from applying for a UK visa for four years after he was arrested for causing a disturbance at London's Heathrow airport.  It was recently announced he is free to apply to travel to the country again.

Meanwhile, it has been claimed the 38-year-old was left devastated when he wasn't allowed to smoke in a New York nightclub. Smoking is illegal in all such establishments in the city, meaning the rapper was immediately told to extinguish his cigarette when he lit it inside nightspot M2.

He obeyed, but spent the rest of the night looking downcast. "Normally he would get on the mike and rap, but he seemed depressed all night because he couldn't smoke," a source said.