BETHLEHEM, Pa. — One of the best-selling male singers of all time is coming to Wind Creek Event Center, the venue announced Monday.
Rod Stewart, who in his 55-year recording career has sold more than 40 million albums in the United States alone and had nearly 30 Top 25 hits, will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23.
Tickets, at $89.50 to $249.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 16 at the Wind Creek Event Center website.Wind Creek Event Center website
Tickets, at $89.50 to $249.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 16, at the Wind Creek Event Center website.
The last time Stewart played the event center (then Sands Bethlehem Event Center) in 2016, he sold out in less than 30 minutes, despite setting a then-record price of $150 to $200.
Stewart, 79, has twice been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — in 1994 as a solo artist and in 2012 as a member of the group Faces.
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He has sold more than 120 million albums worldwide, putting him among the Top 50 best-selling artists of all time and Top 20 best-selling male artists.
He is best known for the No. 1 hits "Maggie May," "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" and "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"
Long history in the Lehigh Valley
It will be the first time in five years that just the third time in nearly 25 years that Stewart has played the Lehigh Valley.
In addition to his show at the event center, Stewart played Allentown's PPL Center in 2019.
Stewart’s 1984 show at Allentown Fair set a record attendance for a seated show there by drawing 14,500. That record stood for 11 years — until Boyz II Men broke it in 1995.
Stewart at various times has held the record for the largest audience at both Allentown Fair and Bethlehem’s Stabler Arena.
He drew 6,023 people to Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena in 1994 — a number above the arena’s normal concert capacity because Stewart used an “in the round” seating configuration. Twenty-four years later, it’s still among the Top 15 largest crowds Stabler ever had. Stewart also packed Stabler in 1999.
Overall, Stewart has had 25 gold or platinum albums, starting with 1971’s No. 1 disc “Every Picture Tells a Story” and its No. 1 hit “Maggie May.”
His best-selling albums were 1977’s “Foot Loose & Fancy Free,” 1978’s “Blondes Have More Fun” and 1993’s “Unplugged … and Seated.”
His last album to go gold or platinum was 2012's "Merry Christmas Baby," his first Christmas album.
His most recent album, "Swing Fever (with Jools Holland)," was released in February.
He won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album in 2005 for “Stardust … The Great American Songbook Volume III.”
