Rod Stewart’s scare in Utah was a jarring reminder that even our loudest, most indestructible idols are human. One moment he was powering through “Young Turks,” the next he was visibly fighting to stay upright at 4,300 feet above sea level, breathing through an oxygen tank as the crowd held its breath with him. Yet he refused to walk off. He chose to finish, even if it meant doing so from a chair, turning fear into a strange, tender kind of intimacy with his fans.
Rod Stewart, 81, requires oxygen tank mid-concert after nearly collapsing in Utah
