Rod Stewart announces his retirement from "large-scale world tours"
22 November 2024, 10:34
Sir Rod Stewart eyes up intimate smaller venues for his future jaunts.
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Rod Stewart has made a big deal of pointing out that he has no plans to retire any time soon.
That's despite his current jaunt being called the One Last Time Tour.
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Sir Rod has clarified just what he means by that in a new Instagram post, and why it might be that bit harder to get tickets to see him in future. Maybe.
"This will be the end of large-scale world tours for me, but I have no desire to retire," he said.
"I love what I do, and I do what I love."
He added: "I'm fit, have a full head of hear, and can run 100 meters in 18 seconds at the jolly old age of 79.
"I'd like to move onto a Great American Songbook, Swing Fever tour the year after next – smaller venues and more intimacy."
Though in Rod's world, nothing is completely set in stone, and he finished the post: "But then again, I may not..."
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He cheekily signed off the message "The Ambiguous Sir Rod Stewart", leaving all options on the table.
As well as being a famed songwriter in his own right, in the 21st century Sir Rod focused much of his efforts on re-imagining both the Great American Songbook and swing classics.
He released It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook in 2002, with the album going double platinum in the UK and triple platinum in the US.
Sir Rod has now released five albums in his Great American Songbook series, the most recent being Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V in 2010.
His most recent album was the Swing Fever collaboration with Jools Holland, which topped the UK albums chart on its release earlier this year.
Sir Rod's last album of primarily newly-written material was 2021's The Tears of Hercules.
