Rod Stewart never ceases to amaze fans with his weird choices.
At Stewart’s show in Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 29, he dedicated his song “Forever Young” to longtime friend Ozzy Osbourne and played an AI-generated video featuring the late Osbourne using a selfie stick to take pictures with other famous musicians who have died, including Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Prince, Freddie Mercury, Tupac, Kurt Cobain, XXXTentacion, and Amy Winehouse.
One concert-goer called it a “new low” for AI use. A user on X pointed out that Stewart’s use of an AI-generated video is a bit odd since he was friends with Osbourne and has performed with him — he could have simply used that footage instead.
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Now, I know what you might be thinking: “At some point, you have to take responsibility for your own actions.” That is something my mom might say to me if I came home from a Stewart concert complaining about him having done something weird.
Stewart is a man with odd takes. For instance, he turned down a multi-million dollar gig in Saudi Arabia in 2023 because of the country’s treatment of women and LGBTQ+ people, but, in 2025, publicly voiced support for far-right politician Nigel Farage, who famously has some controversial anti-LBGTQ+ and anti-choice views. Stewart is a man of many contradictions. So when he said in 2023 that AI could be the “destruction of mankind as we know it,” we should have calculated that he might use AI for a bizarre tribute in 2025.
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