The actor paid a visit to a museum of cars and motorcycles in Dörgicse (western Hungary, near Lake Balaton).Continue reading
Rod Stewart gave a concert in the Hungarian capital on Saturday, but when he spoke about his support for Ukraine, the audience booed. A day before the show, the British rock legend visited the House of Terror Museum, and pictures of the Grammy-winning singer and songwriter’s visit were shared on Facebook, reports Világgazdaság.
“A fantastic but sad and heartbreaking struggle,” Rod Stewart wrote in the guestbook of Budapest’s iconic museum.
“I am very excited to be performing again in front of the wonderful Hungarian audience. I will be performing my greatest hits and of course there will be lots of exciting surprises!,” the singer told his Hungarian fans before the concert.
Rod Stewart is one of the best selling artists with an estimated 250 million albums and singles sold worldwide.
His songs include such global hits as Maggie May, Da Ya Think I’m Sexy, Baby Jane, The First Cut Is The Deepest, I Don’t Want To Talk About It, Tonight’s The Night, You Are In My Heart, Hot Legs, Forever Young and Sailing.
Budapest was not the first place where the singer was booed when he started talking about his support for Ukraine. When the 79-year-old British singer performed in Leipzig, German audiences were not happy that Rod Stewart spoke out against Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and even showed a picture of him with Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Before he performed his 1991 hit Rhythm of My Heart – which he calls a war song and has dedicated to Kiev in recent performances – the Ukrainian flag was projected on the screen behind the singer.
Several videos were posted on social media showing the crowd expressing their displeasure as soon as they saw the Ukrainian flag.
“I’m currently at the Rod Stewart concert in Budapest. Rod sang a number dressed in the colors of Ukraine. When Selenskyi appeared on the wall, he was booed by the audience!” (from a friend from Hungary) pic.twitter.com/XZjx6PQpYz
— Markus Haintz (@MarkusHaintzUSA) June 22, 2024
The singer has regularly condemned Russia since 2022, and recently he did not speak highly of Vladimir Putin in an interview with Sky News. “We have to support Ukraine to the end,” he stressed in a February interview, in which he also revealed that he had rented and furnished a home for a Ukrainian refugee family of seven.
Via Világgazdaság; Featured image via Facebook/Rod Stewart