Sir Rod Stewart, the voice of “Maggie May” and “Sailing”, brings The Final Encore, the tour he has named as his last, to The O2 arena for three nights.
Sir Rod Stewart brings The Final Encore to The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Tuesday 11, Friday 14 and Saturday 15 May 2027. He has sold more than 120 million records and calls the tour his farewell to the road.
He was born on Archway Road in Highgate in 1945 and began in 1962 by busking with a harmonica. Spells with the Jeff Beck Group from 1967 and the Faces from 1969 ran alongside a solo career.
His third album, Every Picture Tells a Story, topped the charts in Britain and America in 1971, with “Maggie May” as its single. Atlantic Crossing and “Sailing” followed the end of the Faces in 1975, then “Tonight’s the Night” and “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” in the years after.
He has had ten UK number-one albums and six UK number-one singles, and was knighted in 2016 for services to music and charity.
In 2025 he played the Legends slot at Glastonbury, 23 years after his previous appearance there. After more than six decades, he says this tour will be his last, and these three nights are London’s farewell to a singer born in the city.