Rod Stewart in the Caribbean: An unforgettable experience

There are certainly worse places to work than Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. The atmosphere of the capital city of the Dominican Republic, with its Plaza Espana and Alcázar de Colón palace, probably contributed to Sir Rod Stewart once again putting on a spectacular show yesterday evening, sending 50,000 enthusiastic visitors home after around two hours of top-class musical entertainment.
‘Rod Stewart proved that rock doesn't age,’ cheered the online news magazine El Caribe. ‘This evening was one that will shape generations.’ With so much euphoria and enthusiasm from the writer, we'll generously overlook the fact that the magazine made Rod Stewart 84 years old in its article. Dear El Caribe, we're not quite there yet. Our Rod is only 80 years old.

80 or 84 – the main thing is that the show goes on. And it did. The evening opened with ‘Infatuation’, and with ‘Tonight I'm Yours’ and ‘It Takes Two’, Rod and his once again magnificent band got the fans into party mode early on. Of course, the sentimental songs such as ‘The First Cut Is The Deepest’ and ‘Tonight's The Night’ were also a must – under the Caribbean sky, it was the slow songs in particular that created a very special atmosphere. But Rod didn't give the 50,000 people in the stadium much of a break, immediately launching into ‘Forever Young’, ‘Baby Jane’ and ‘Young Turks’.

Of course, the good old ‘Maggie May’ had also travelled to the Caribbean; the song that basically started it all is simply a must-have when spending an evening with Rod Stewart.
The audience's enthusiasm grew from minute to minute, from song to song. ‘Downtown Train’, ‘I Don't Want To Talk About It’, ‘People Get Ready’ and ‘Have I Told You Lately’ – Sir Rod didn't leave out anything the fans wanted to hear. As usual, the band took over during the refreshment breaks and kept the audience at operating temperature with the classics ‘I'm Every Woman’ and ‘Proud Mary’.
With ‘Da Ya Think I'm Sexy’, Sir Rod then entered the home stretch of the evening and scored two more big points at the end with “Sailing” and ‘Some Guys Have All The Luck’.

‘Rod Stewart shaped the evening with a lot of love and lots of music,’ sums up El Caribe. ‘It was simply an unforgettable experience.’