Singer Rod Stewart's European tour is slowly but surely coming to an end. On Sunday, the Brit will take to the stage once again in Lucca, Italy, to conclude his ONE LAST Time Tour - then that's it for Europe 2024 and the large fan community hopes that he will come back again after all.
In the O2 Arena in Prague, which was sold out with 14,000 visitors, Sir Rod once again delivered an inspiring evening. As always this year, Stewart opened the evening with the Robert Palmer song ADDICTED TO MLOVE, which was immediately followed by his 197 classic YOU WEAR IT WELL. The audience in the Czech capital then knew no bounds. With MAGGIE MAY, YOUNG TURKS and the Bonnie Tyler cult hit IT'S A HEARTACHE, Rod even got the "chair legs dancing", as the newspaper Novinky described it. The self-confessed Celtic fan allowed the fans to take a break from time to time and let young and old alike catch their breath with well-known songs such as PEOPLE GET READY, THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST and I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.
Apart from two short breaks, during which the singer freshened up backstage and changed into a new outfit and his band took over the stage, the Stewart Express played at full throttle. The two-hour show on and in front of the stage flew by. As the first notes of DA YA THINK I'M SEXY rang out, the obligatory signed footballs flew off the stage. Sir Rod ended the show and his 25th concert in less than two months with SAILING. On Sunday, he ends his European tour with a performance at the Lucca Summer Festival in Piazza Neapolitana in Tuscany. After that, Rod can deservedly put his feet up for a while before continuing on 24 July with seven concerts at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and a five-week tour of North America.
The Czech press were also extremely impressed by the performance in the O2 Arena in Prague. Novinky called the show a "two-hour geyser of well-known and immortal hits". And the paper also noted: "Rod Stewart convinced the sold-out arena that it is still a little too early for ONE LAST TIME". So even after the evening in Prague, the motto remains: SING IT AGAIN ROD!
MH (04.07.24)
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