As loud as Celtic Park: Rod Stewart's Alpharetta show becomes a home game

We know how it is. You want to watch a concert in peace, just enjoy the songs the singer presents, and then you end up going home completely exhausted and with a hoarse voice because you just couldn't stay in your seat and sang along to every song, every line of lyrics, at the top of your lungs and without interruption.
That's what happened last night in the US state of Georgia, when around 12,000 people in the city of Alpharetta, population 70,000, made their way to the Ameris Amphitheatre to see Rod Stewart's show as part of his One Last Time tour.
It was not a relaxed evening for the audience, because before Sir Rod took to the stage, Cheap Trick had already warmed up the music lovers and ensured the right atmosphere in the vast arena.
When Stewart took to the stage right on time and officially opened the evening with ‘Infatuation’ and his 1981 hit ‘Tonight I'm Yours,’ no one could stay in their seats.
The 12,000 fans in the sold-out amphitheatre danced their hearts out and sang along loudly and confidently to every song. The organiser of the evening also noticed this. The Ameris Theatre praised the audience on its Instagram channel: ‘It takes two – Rod Stewart and an audience that knows every word.’
It was a home game for Rod – the football fan must have felt at times like he was at Celtic Park, where the Green Brigade sets the tone. In Alpharetta, it was less the battle chants from one corner and more Stewart's own songs that gave the whole thing a bit of a stadium atmosphere.
Whether it was the Faces song ‘Ooh La La’, ‘Forever Young’, which Rod once again dedicated to Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away a few days ago, or Maggie May, everyone, and I mean everyone, sang along – sometimes badly, sometimes well. But always with the greatest euphoria. The only time it gets louder at Celtic Park in Glasgow is when Celtic scores the decisive goal in extra time against the Rangers.
Alpharetta experienced an evening that no one who was there will forget anytime soon. Around two hours of partying with Sir Rod – many visitors wished that this show would never end.

The reactions of concertgoers on social media were similar. ‘Rod never disappoints and makes us feel “Forever Young”,’ wrote Donna Muth. Ruth Norman (‘Such a great concert’) and Anne Denes Howard, who called it ‘the best concert I've seen in a long time,’ echoed this sentiment. Rhonda Emery called it ‘the best concert of the year,’ and Kelly Moore Ivins added, ‘Great concert, Rod just plays the soundtrack of our lives.’
Set list:
1. Infatuation
2. Tonight I'm Yours
3. It's A Heartache
4. Havin' A Party
5. It Takes Two
6. The First Cut Is The Deepest
7. Tonight's The Night
8. Forever Young
9. Ooh La La
10. Young Turks
11. Maggie May
12. I'd Rather Go Blind
13. Downtown Train
14. Lady Marmalade (band only)
15. If You Don't Know Me By Now
16. You're In My Heart
17. Have I Told You Lately
18. Proud Mary (band only)
19. Da Ya Think I'm Sexy
20. Hot Legs
21. Some Guys Have All The Luck