Let's call it never change a working setlist, based on a saying from the world of sport. Sir Rod Stewart also remembered this motto at his One Last Time Tour concert in Malmö on Tuesday.
The singer only made minor adjustments to the song list for last night's show compared to the performance in Tampere. The Faces song Ooh La La came in, This Old Heart of Mine had to ‘take a seat on the substitutes' bench’. And Lady Marmelade replaced the Pointer Sisters hit I'm So Excited among the ‘interval fillers’.
Around 15,000 visitors were looking forward to an unforgettable evening, which kicked off with the Depeche Mode classic (and Celtic Stadium song) and a bagpipe intro by Scotland The Brave.
The curtain then rose to the sounds of Infatuation and ‘the good times could roll’. Tonight I'm Yours, Some Guys Have All The Luck - the audience in Sweden's third largest city after Stockholm and Gothenburg quickly warmed up and the party picked up speed.
‘An emotional ’The first cut is the deepest‘ is one of the highlights of the evening,’ noted the Swedish online news portal Sydsvenska, drawing a somewhat macabre comparison. ‘When Elvis was this age, he had already been dead for 38 years,’ commented the paper. ‘Rod Stewart still has this unique vitality at the age of 80.’
Well, very few visitors to the show in Malmö were probably thinking along these lines, enjoying the evening first and foremost and experiencing a man on stage who didn't always hit the right note, but this is probably not entirely unknown to long-time Rod Stewart fans. The Celtic fan ironed out these little slip-ups with his energy, his tongue-in-cheek humour (‘I fucked it up...’) and his unbelievable stage presence, also repeatedly in interaction with his excellent musicians.
In general, one of the greatest music legends of the last few decades simply celebrated a big party here, which would be very fitting for the motto Forever Young.
I'd Rather Go Blind once again became the secret star of the evening, with Rod performing the Etta James song with such emotion that ‘you could hear every sigh and every note’, according to Sydsvenska.
At the end, he aptly summarised: ‘The last cut is sometimes the deepest’, which is probably how the 15,000 people felt when the curtain fell for the last time after the two encores Stay With Me and Hot Legs and they realised that a music legend had just left the Land of the Three Crowns at that moment.
Setlist:
1st Infatuation
2 Tonight I'm Yours
3 Some Guys Have All The Luck
4 You Wear It Well
5 Ooh La La
6 Baby Jane
7. the first cut is the deepest
8 Tonight's The Night
9th Forever Young
10. Young Turks
11th Maggie May
12 I'd Rather Go Blind
13 Lady Marmalade (Band only)
14 I Don't Want To Talk About It
15 If You Don't Know Me By Now
16th Proud Mary (Band only)
17 Da Ya Think I'm Sexy
18. Sailing
19 Stay With Me
20. Hot Legs
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