From blues and folk, to rock and pop, to standards and swing, it seems like Rod Stewart has done it all, and as he turns 80 on Jan. 10, he has no plans to slow down.
While his 2025 tour is called One Last Time, the two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer said in November he’ll be making some changes to his schedule, but he’s not going to hang up his microphone. “This will be the end of large-scale world tours for me, but I have no desire to retire. I love what I do and I do what I love,”
he wrote.
“I’m fit, have a full head of hair and can run 100 meters in 18 seconds at the jolly old age of 79,” he boasted.
2025 is shaping up to be a very busy year for Rod the Mod, who’s sold 120 million records worldwide and scored a string of U.S. top-10 hits, including the number ones “Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright),” “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?,” “Maggie May” and “All For Love,” a collaboration with Sting and Bryan Adams.
Rod is going to perform at the U.K.’s biggest festival, Glastonbury, on June 29. He also has a couple of co-headlining shows with Billy Joel lined up, including a concert at New York’s Yankee Stadium in July, and he’ll kick off a new round of Las Vegas residency shows at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in March.
On top of that, Rod continues to promote his signature brand of whisky, Wolfie’s, and enjoy his huge family, including wife Penny Lancaster, his various ex-wives and partners, his eight children and his three grandchildren.
In his November post, Rod also said that he’s already planning a 2026 tour in which he’ll perform songs from his bestselling collection of Great American Songbook albums, as well as his most recent release, Swing Fever, which hit #1 in his native U.K.
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