Off for the summer break: Rod Stewart ends concert tour in St. Louis

Sir Rod couldn't have chosen a better setting for the last concert before the five-week tour break. We are in St. Louis, a city of over 300,000 inhabitants on the banks of the Mississippi River in the US state of Missouri. Rock “n” roll pioneer Chuck Berry grew up here, and a certain Tina Turner launched her magnificent singing career here in the late 1950s. And it was at this historic music venue that Rod Stewart played one of his concerts on the One Last Time Tour 2025 last night.
The Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre is located about 20 miles west of the city centre, and last night around 20,000 people gathered there to see Stewart perform, with US band Cheap Trick as the opening act. Once again, it was sold out, as it has been almost every night in recent weeks and months.
Many older fans, who have been listening to Rod Stewart's music for half their lives, were there, but also many younger fans, who probably only know about the singer's beginnings in the 1960s and his time with Faces from hearsay. Everyone was eagerly anticipating a great evening with party potential, as word had spread that Sir Rod was putting on one spectacular show after another this summer.
And so it was in St. Louis. Cheap Trick had already fired up the crowd with twelve songs from their repertoire, and by the time they played ‘The Flame,’ surely the band's best-known song, the audience was ‘on fire.’
And when Sir Rod came on stage at 9 p.m. local time, thunderous cheers and applause erupted, seamlessly transforming the audience into a dancing, party-ready crowd.
‘Infatuation’ and ‘Tonight I'm Yours’ laid the foundation for a musical journey through two hours of hits from six decades. By the second song, few fans could hold back. Most danced and rocked out to their hearts' content or tried their hand at singing along, mostly with perfect lyrics.
The crowd was having fun, and so were Rod and his musicians on stage. A little joke here, a quick wave or a kiss blown to the crowd there, Sir Rod was quickly in his element and pulled one hit after another out of his hat. The fans thanked him with seemingly endless applause and cheers: St. Louis enjoyed his party to the fullest.
For many, however, the evening was over far too quickly. After just under two hours, Rod slowly but surely steered the ‘Love Train’ towards its final destination. Before that, the crowd danced non-stop to ‘Young Turks’ and ‘Maggie May’ and sang along to slow songs like ‘The First Cut Is The Deepest’ and ‘Have I Told You Lately’.
‘What a show,’ wrote Cory LaGrow, who had travelled from Michigan especially for the event, on X, posting a short video of ‘Da Ya Think I'm Sexy’. ‘Rod was just fantastic,’ said Sara Alexander after the concert, despite the long queue for the shuttle buses. And we could go on and on with these comments. Conclusion – and we probably speak for all the fans who have seen a show in recent weeks: Rod Stewart is like a fine wine, the older, the better.
Stewart and his band are now taking a well-deserved ‘summer break’ – in September, the singer will return to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for what is likely to be his last time, and will make up for two concerts he had to cancel in May due to the flu with shows in Rancho Mirage and Paso Robles.
After touring Central and South America, including a short stop in the Dominican Republic, Stewart and his entourage will return to Germany and Europe in November and December. The 80-year-old will conclude his 2025 concert year with a performance in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on 17 December.

Set list
1. Infatuation
2. Tonight I'm Yours
3. It's A Heartache
4. Rollin' & Tumblin'
5. It Takes Two
6. The First Cut Is The Deepest
7. Tonight's The Night
8. Forever Young
9. The Motown Song
10. Young Turks
11. Maggie May
12. I’d Rather Go Blind
13. Downtown Train
14. I’m Every Woman (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. Stay With Me
21. Some Guys Have All The Luck
22. Love Train