Rod Stewart Hints 81-Year-Old Rod Stewart Tour May End After O2 Run
Rod Stewart Tour plans may be winding down after the 81-year-old said his next UK run will probably be his last. On TalkSport, Stewart said he is touring the UK next year and doing The O2, then added that it will “probably be it.”
TalkSport and The O2
Stewart’s comment lands after he spent 2024 building his One Last Time concert series, a run that also included the Legends spot at last year’s Glastonbury festival. That sequence gives his latest remark extra weight: he has already framed his live work as a closing chapter, even while still booking dates.
He also said, “I’ll have to do something new, come on your show more often, maybe.” The line reads like a shrug, but the business takeaway is sharper: one more UK arena run now sits beside a much wider touring plan that appears to be contracting.
2024 Instagram Signal
In 2024, Stewart wrote on Instagram, “This will be the end of large-scale world tours for me, but I have no desire to retire.” He followed that with, “I love what I do, and I do what I love,” and even pointed to his fitness, saying, “I'm fit, have a full head of hair, and can run 100 metres in 18 seconds at the jolly old age of 79.”
He also floated a smaller-format future when he wrote, “I'd like to move onto a Great American Songbook, Swing Fever tour the year after next – smaller venues and more intimacy. But then again, I may not...” That sits alongside the fact that he still has a number of US shows planned for this year, so the exit from big touring is not an immediate stop.
2027 Dates Missing
Stewart has also told AARP The Magazine that he has a covers album, a country album, and a Faces album all in the works. “There’s so much more music I want to create,” he said, adding, “I just can’t stop.”
No dates for 2027 have yet been announced, so the practical read for UK audiences is simple: the next chance to see him there is next year, and he has already suggested that The O2 could be the final lap. For a veteran act, that makes the ticket window smaller, not bigger.
