Rod Stewart in Birmingham

Rod Stewart is a British rock and pop singer born in London in 1945. He sang with the Jeff Beck Group and Faces before establishing a solo catalogue led by the album Every Picture Tells a Story and songs including “Maggie May,” “Sailing,” “You Wear It Well” and “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” Rod Stewart performed a New Year’s Eve concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro in 1994 and headlined Glastonbury in 2002. In 2011 he began the long-running Rod Stewart: The Hits. residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

Howard Jones is an English singer-songwriter and keyboard player, born in Southampton in 1955, known for synthesizer-led pop songs including “New Song,” “What Is Love?,” “Things Can Only Get Better” and “No One Is to Blame.” His key 1980s albums include “Human’s Lib” and “Dream into Action.” In 1985, Jones performed “Hide and Seek” alone at the piano during Live Aid at Wembley Stadium. In 2016, he joined Barenaked Ladies and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark for the Last Summer on Earth tour across North America.