https://shuenroku.net/en/ An archive of musicians' final live performances en Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMT https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/miyuki-nakajima-2020-02-26/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/miyuki-nakajima-2020-02-26/Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn February 26, 2020, at Festival Hall on Osaka's Nakanoshima island, Miyuki Nakajima played what turned out to be the last show of her *Miyuki Nakajima 2020 Last Tour "Kekka Ōrai"* (roughly, "it all worked out in the end"). The tour had opened in Tokyo on January 12 and was due to run to June 5 across 24 dates. This was the eighth. Every one of the remaining 16 was cancelled as COVID-19 spread through Japan. On opening night she explained that the "Last Tour" was not a "last concert": she was ending only the practice of touring the whole country. The song that closed the main set in Osaka, "Tanjō," survives in the documentary included with the tour's live album, released two years later. In 2024 Nakajima returned to the stage with *Utakai Vol. 1*, a run of 16 concerts at Tokyo International Forum and at this same Festival Hall. The last show of the Last Tour was not her last concert. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/rush-2015-08-01/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/rush-2015-08-01/Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn August 1, 2015, Rush played the final show of the R40 Live Tour at the Forum in Inglewood, just outside Los Angeles. It was the last night of a 34-city North American run marking the band's 40th anniversary, and it turned out to be the last concert Rush ever played with drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. The two-set show worked backward through the catalog, from the newest songs to the oldest, while the stage itself changed to match each era, and it ended with "Working Man" from the 1974 debut album. As Geddy Lee said goodbye, Peart, who had never once come out from behind his kit to greet a crowd in 40 years, walked to the front and stood between Lee and Alex Lifeson. Peart spoke of retirement before the year was out, and he died in January 2020. But in 2026, Lee and Lifeson went back on the road as Rush with drummer Anika Nilles on the Fifty Something tour. Opening night was at the same Forum, eleven years later. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/george-harrison-1992-04-06/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/george-harrison-1992-04-06/Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn the night of April 6, 1992, George Harrison played a one-off show at the Royal Albert Hall in London, billed as George Harrison and Friends. It was a benefit for the Natural Law Party, a new party standing in the British general election three days later, and it was his first concert in Britain since leaving the Beatles. He brought back the band from his Japanese tour with Eric Clapton the previous December, with Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers playing guitar in Clapton's place. The setlist opened with "I Want to Tell You" and moved between songs he had written for the Beatles and his solo hits. Ringo Starr and Gary Moore came out for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and the last song was Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven," with Harrison's 13-year-old son Dhani and Joe Walsh on guitar. It turned out to be the last full concert of Harrison's life. That October he sang at Bob Dylan's 30th anniversary concert in New York, and he later stepped onstage briefly at a tribute show and a memorial service, but he never again headlined a concert of his own. He died on November 29, 2001, at 58. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/ryuichi-sakamoto-2022-03-26/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/ryuichi-sakamoto-2022-03-26/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn March 26, 2022, at Suntory Hall in Akasaka, Tokyo, Ryuichi Sakamoto came out to play the piano with the Tohoku Youth Orchestra, a band of schoolchildren and students from the areas struck by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. He was its representative and music director. It was his first public stage since he had announced, in January 2021, that he had undergone surgery for cancer. The concert opened with "Ima Jikan ga Katamuite," a piece he had finished in January 2020 for a concert the pandemic then wiped out. Hearing it live for the first time, Sakamoto spoke about the 2011 disaster and about Ukraine, then played "still life" beneath actress Sayuri Yoshinaga's poetry reading. The afternoon closed with Beethoven's Ninth, sung by a choir drawn from disaster-hit regions. Sakamoto never again played in front of an audience. His last concert, in December 2022, was a solo piano set recorded without an audience and streamed, and those sessions became the film Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus. He died on March 28, 2023, at 71. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/johnny-cash-2003-07-05/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/johnny-cash-2003-07-05/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn the night of Saturday, July 5, 2003, at a music hall in the hills of southwest Virginia called the Carter Family Fold, Johnny Cash, 71, sat in a chair with a guitar and sang seven songs in about half an hour. His wife, June Carter Cash, had died less than two months earlier. The Fold stands on the land of her family, the Carter Family, and hosts old-time music shows every weekend; Cash's appearance that night was an unannounced surprise. He spoke about June before "Ring of Fire," and closed with "Understand Your Man," a 1964 hit he had not sung on stage in 25 years. It was Johnny Cash's last concert appearance, his final performance before an audience. The music video for "Hurt," often mistaken for his last performance, was filmed in October 2002 and was not a live show. Cash never sang in public again. He died on September 12, 2003, at 71. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/frank-sinatra-1995-02-25/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/frank-sinatra-1995-02-25/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn the night of February 25, 1995, Frank Sinatra, 79, sang in the ballroom of the Marriott's Desert Springs resort in Palm Desert, California. It was a private party on the closing night of the golf tournament that bore his name, and about 1,200 invited guests were in the room. He closed his short set with "The Best Is Yet to Come," which he had recorded with the Count Basie Orchestra in 1964. It turned out to be Sinatra's last performance in front of an audience. His last concert for the paying public had come a few months earlier, at the Fukuoka Dome in Japan. Nobody around him thought Palm Desert would be the end. He never sang in public again, and he died on May 14, 1998, at 82. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/tmn-1994-05-19/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/tmn-1994-05-19/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn May 19, 1994, TMN closed the second of two nights at Tokyo Dome billed as *TMN 4001 DAYS GROOVE*, and with it ten years of work since their debut. The word they had chosen on April 21, the tenth anniversary of that debut, was not "breakup" but "end": the aims and goals of a "first mission," the announcement said, had been met. The last night of the "end" shows, which drew 100,000 people over the two days, opened with "1974 (16 Kōnen no Hōmonsha)," passed through "GET WILD '89" and "Nights Of The Knife," and finished with "TIME MACHINE." Naoto Kine later recalled how far away the center stage felt during that last song. It was not the final show, though. In 1999 the three restarted under their original name, TM NETWORK, and on May 19, 2024, the last night of their 40th-anniversary tour fell exactly 30 years after that last night at the Dome. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/teresa-teng-1985-12-15/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/teresa-teng-1985-12-15/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn December 15, 1985, Teresa Teng (Deng Lijun) gave a solo concert called "One and Only" at NHK Hall in Tokyo. It came at the end of the year her Japanese career peaked, after the back-to-back hits "Tsugunai" and "Aijin," and the tickets reportedly sold out in three days. Her record company later released the show under the title "Last Concert," and NHK calls it her last solo concert in Japan. She moved between Japanese, Mandarin and English songs through the main set. In the encore she took requests from the audience, stringing together short Mandarin songs, and then closed the night by singing "Aijin," her hit of that year, a second time. It was not the last time she sang in public. Her last public performance in Taiwan is reported as a military morale show in Fengshan in June 1994, and she kept appearing on NHK music programs in Japan until November 1994. She died on May 8, 1995, at 42. This page treats the NHK Hall night as her last solo concert whose songs and closing number can be checked against official releases, and covers the later stages and her last footage in the text. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/carpenters-1978-12-03/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/carpenters-1978-12-03/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn December 3, 1978, the Carpenters took the stage at the Pacific Terrace Theater in Long Beach, California. It was a benefit concert for the choir of California State University, Long Beach, where Karen and Richard Carpenter had studied music in the 1960s, and it turned out to be the last concert the brother and sister ever gave. No contemporary report of what they sang that day, or of the song they ended with, has been found. Richard took a break soon after. The duo released Made in America in 1981 but never went back to the concert stage. Karen's last performance came in December 1982, at her godchildren's school. When Karen died on February 4, 1983, at 32, the Long Beach benefit became, in retrospect, the Carpenters' last show. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/fujifabric-2025-02-06/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/fujifabric-2025-02-06/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn February 6, 2025, Fujifabric played NHK Hall in Shibuya, Tokyo, in a show billed simply as Fujifabric LIVE at NHK Hall. It was the last headline concert by the trio of Soichiro Yamauchi, Daisuke Kanazawa and Shinichi Kato before the hiatus the band had announced for February 2025. Tickets sold out on the first day, and the show was streamed live. Keyboardist Kanazawa left the band with this concert. The roughly three-hour show opened with “Portrait,” from the band's latest album, took in an acoustic segment and a burst of gold streamers during “Feverman,” and closed the main set with “STAR.” The encore was “SUPER!!” and “Hagan”: 23 songs in all, with “Hagan” as the last song. Before leaving, Yamauchi called out the name of Masahiko Shimura, the band's founder, who died in 2009, and the three walked off arm in arm. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/the-birthday-2023-03-15/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/the-birthday-2023-03-15/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn March 15, 2023, The Birthday played LIQUIDROOM, a live house in the Ebisu district of Tokyo, as part of "BLACK RUDE NIGHT," an event presented by the clothing brand RUDE GALLERY. They shared the bill with SPEEDER-X (Tatsuya Nakamura and KenKen) and TRI4TH, and general tickets had sold out. It turned out to be the last time singer and guitarist Yusuke Chiba performed in front of an audience: his last show. Forty days later, on April 24, it was announced that Chiba was stepping back to concentrate on treatment for esophageal cancer. The band had summer festivals and an autumn tour ahead, but Chiba died on November 26, at 55. No reliable report of that night's setlist or last song has been found. Since summer 2024, the other three members, Kazuyuki Kuhara, Haruki Hirai and Kenji Fujii, have been back on stage as The Birthday. This is the story of Chiba's last performance, and of what the band did next. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/whitney-houston-2010-06-17/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/whitney-houston-2010-06-17/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn the night of Thursday, June 17, 2010, Whitney Houston played the final show of her Nothing But Love World Tour at the Manchester Evening News Arena — now the AO Arena — in the north of England. It was her first full tour since 1999, built around her 2009 comeback album I Look To You, and it had run for more than six months, from Moscow in December 2009 through South Korea, Australia and Europe. The two Manchester nights were themselves make-up dates, moved to the end of the tour after a respiratory infection in Paris forced her to postpone them in April. The setlist on her official website runs to 19 songs. She opened with "For The Lovers" from the new album, went back to "Saving All My Love For You" and The Bodyguard's "I Will Always Love You," and closed with "Million Dollar Bill," the album's opening track. Nobody billed it as a farewell. She never played another concert of her own, and died on February 11, 2012, at 48. Her official site now remembers the night as her final concert performance. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/the-doors-1970-12-12/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/the-doors-1970-12-12/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn Saturday, December 12, 1970, the Doors played the Warehouse, a converted cotton warehouse on Tchoupitoulas Street in New Orleans. It turned out to be the band's last concert with Jim Morrison. They mixed hits with new songs from the album they were making, L.A. Woman, but by most accounts Morrison ran out of steam partway through, and the night ended with him pounding his microphone stand into the stage floor and walking off. Nobody billed it as a farewell. It was the second of two shows, after Dallas the night before, and afterwards the other three agreed to come off the road for a while. Morrison died in Paris on July 3, 1971, at 27, so the Warehouse became his last show with the Doors. The last song is usually reported as "The End." Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore went on as the Doors, made two more albums and played to audiences again, including at Carnegie Hall. That is why this page is filed as "Not the end after all." What follows is what the sources say about the night, how the band got there, and what came after. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/buck-tick-2023-10-19/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/buck-tick-2023-10-19/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn October 19, 2023, BUCK-TICK played KT Zepp Yokohama, a live house in Yokohama, at a concert open only to members of the band's fan club, "BUCK-TICK FISH TANKer's ONLY 2023." It was the first of four fan club dates planned for the autumn, on the eve of a national tour. Partway through the show, singer Atsushi Sakurai became unwell, and the concert was stopped. It was the last time Sakurai stood on a stage; he died that night, at 57. The songs played that evening, and how far the show got, have not been reported in any official statement or reliable press account. Every remaining date was canceled. But on December 29 the other four members, Hisashi Imai, Hidehiko Hoshino, Yutaka Higuchi and Toll Yagami, walked out onto the stage of the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo and told the audience that BUCK-TICK would go on. This is the story of the last show by a five-piece whose lineup had not changed since the end of 1985. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/hideki-saijo-2018-04-14/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/hideki-saijo-2018-04-14/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn April 14, 2018, at the Ashikaga Civic Hall in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, Hideki Saijo took the stage as one of nine acts in a "Dosokai Concert," a touring package show of singers with hits from Japan's Showa era. He had turned 63 the day before, and his fellow performers reportedly celebrated with a cake before the show. It turned out to be the last time he sang in front of an audience. Saijo, who in 1974 became the first Japanese solo singer to headline a baseball stadium and who turned "YOUNG MAN (Y.M.C.A.)" into a million-seller, spent his last years touring the country with these shared bills. His last concert under his own name had been in Osaka in October 2017. What he sang in Ashikaga, and what he sang last, cannot be confirmed from official records or press reports. What has been passed down is a co-star's account: of Saijo standing behind the lowered curtain before the second half, listening to the crowd, and of his answer afterwards that the show had been "so much fun." A month later, on May 16, he died at 63. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/tom-petty-2017-09-25/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/tom-petty-2017-09-25/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn September 25, 2017, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played the last night of their 40th Anniversary Tour at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The tour had opened in April and run to 53 shows, and it ended with three sold-out hometown nights at the Bowl. This was the third. The 18-song set opened with "Rockin' Around (With You)," a song from the band's first album, gathered a run of songs from Wildflowers, included "Breakdown," which was played only on this night of the three, and closed with "American Girl" as the encore. Before that last song, Petty thanked the crowd for "40 years of a really great time." Petty had said this might be his last big tour, but the show was not billed as a farewell, and he had no plans to stop playing. A week later, on October 2, he died at 66, and the night at the Bowl became his last concert. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/jimi-hendrix-1970-09-06/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/jimi-hendrix-1970-09-06/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTAt around one o'clock on the afternoon of September 6, 1970, Jimi Hendrix walked onstage at the Love & Peace Festival on Fehmarn, an island in the Baltic off northern West Germany, with Billy Cox on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. The three-day festival, meant as Germany's answer to Woodstock, had been battered by rain and wind, and his Saturday-night headlining slot had been called off as unsafe. The crowd that had waited for him greeted the band with boos. He opened with "Killing Floor," played through a fresh blast of rain and cold wind, and finished a 13-song set of just over an hour with "Purple Haze" and, last of all, "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)." It was one date on a European tour, not a farewell. Twelve days later, on September 18, Hendrix died in London at 27, and this became the last concert of his own. The tape the promoters quietly made beside the stage was released officially in 2005. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/chatmonchy-2018-07-22/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/chatmonchy-2018-07-22/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn July 22, 2018, at Asty Tokushima in the city of Tokushima, Chatmonchy closed the second day of their own two-day festival, *Chatmonchy no Tokushima Konasonson Fes 2018 ~Mina, Oide Nashite yo!~*, and with that set brought the band to what they called its "completion." Eriko Hashimoto and Akiko Fukuoka had announced the previous November, without using the word breakup, that Chatmonchy would be completed in July 2018. Their last one-man concert was at the Nippon Budokan on July 4, and the hometown festival had been billed in advance as their last live show. On that final stage the two played eight songs, opening with a jingle they had written for a Tokushima radio station and handing the drum stool, song by song, to four drummers from that day's bill. The last song was "Shangurira" ("Shangri-La"). Afterwards the pair danced through the crowd with an Awa Odori troupe, and former drummer Kumiko Takahashi joined the line. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/george-michael-2012-10-17/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/george-michael-2012-10-17/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn October 17, 2012, George Michael played the final night of his Symphonica tour, with his band and an orchestra, at Earls Court in London. The tour had stopped the previous November, when he was hospitalized with pneumonia in Vienna, and resumed that September; the last of three nights at Earls Court was its closing date. He sang more standards and other people's songs than his own hits, ran "Amazing," "I'm Your Man" and "Freedom! '90" together as an encore medley, and ended the night with "I Remember You," a song from 1941. The show was billed as the end of a tour, not the end of a career, and he planned to take time off afterwards. But he never performed for an audience again, and he died on December 25, 2016, at 53. His last words on stage were a thank-you to London and a promise to see them soon. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/amy-winehouse-2011-06-18/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/amy-winehouse-2011-06-18/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn June 18, 2011, Amy Winehouse played an open-air show in the Lower Town of Belgrade Fortress, the Kalemegdan, in the Serbian capital. Billed as part of the Tuborg Festival, it was the opening night of a 12-date European tour planned for that summer. In front of about 20,000 people she opened with "Just Friends," worked through "Back to Black" and "Valerie," and closed with "You're Wondering Now," a cover sung largely by one of her backing singers. Eleven songs in all, it turned out to be the last concert she gave under her own name. The show did not go as planned. She could not get through parts of some songs, left the stage twice, and was booed. The next day the Istanbul and Athens dates were called off; three days later, the whole tour was. On July 20 she stepped onstage in London to dance alongside her goddaughter, her last appearance before an audience. She died on July 23, aged 27. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/rebecca-1990-01-19/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/rebecca-1990-01-19/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn January 19, 1990, REBECCA played the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on the final night of *REBECCA LIVE TOUR FROM '89 TO '90 BLOND SAURUS no Gyakushū* ("the Blond Saurus strikes back"), a tour that had started the previous November. Six months earlier the band had headlined the Tokyo Dome for the first time. After this show they declared an indefinite hiatus, and on February 14, 1991, they announced their breakup. Nobody had billed the night as a farewell, but it became REBECCA's last concert before the split. The show survives as the concert film *Dreams on 19900119*: a 17-song setlist running about two hours. It opened with "OLIVE," passed through "MOON," "LONELY BUTTERFLY" and "LITTLE ROCK," and built to "RASPBERRY DREAM" and "FRIENDS" near the end. The last song was "MAYBE TOMORROW." Singer NOKKO greeted the crowd at "the first show of the '90s" and danced through the night. It was not the end after all. REBECCA returned for two benefit shows after the 1995 Kobe earthquake, reunited under the same name in 2015, and has another national tour scheduled from autumn 2026. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/ellegarden-2008-09-07/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/ellegarden-2008-09-07/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn September 7, 2008, at Studio Coast in Shinkiba, Tokyo, ELLEGARDEN played the one-man show that would be their last before a hiatus. The pause had been announced on May 2 that year: the members' motivation for the new album they were making had drifted apart. It was the fourth of the four last one-man shows before the break, two in Osaka and two in Tokyo, in a hall that held about 2,400 people standing. The DVD released the following year follows the band on handheld home video cameras from the meeting where they chose the setlist to the show itself, and its live section ends with "Surfrider Association." That night Takeshi Hosomi told the crowd that if anyone had the wrong idea, they should pass it on: this was not the last time. He was right. The hiatus lasted ten years, and in August 2018 the four opened their comeback tour on the same Studio Coast stage. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/david-bowie-2004-06-25/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/david-bowie-2004-06-25/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn June 25, 2004, David Bowie played the Hurricane Festival in Scheeßel, a small town in northern Germany. It was a stop on A Reality Tour, which had opened in Copenhagen the previous October and taken him across Europe, North America, Australia and Japan. He opened with "Rebel Rebel," closed the main set with "Heroes" and ended the encore with "Ziggy Stardust," 21 songs in all. It was the last full concert he ever gave. Two days earlier, a show in Prague had been cut short when he felt pain in his shoulder. In Scheeßel he finished the set, but afterward he was taken to hospital, and in Hamburg doctors found a blocked artery and performed an emergency angioplasty. The rest of the tour was canceled. Bowie never went back on tour or played another concert of his own. He sat in with other artists a handful of times through 2007, released new albums in 2013 and 2016, and died on January 10, 2016, at 69. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/speed-1999-12-25/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/speed-1999-12-25/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn December 25, 1999, SPEED played the final show of the SPEED DOME TOUR 1999 REAL LIFE at the Fukuoka Dome. The tour had opened at the Nagoya Dome in November, weeks after the four teenagers from Okinawa announced on October 5 that they would break up at the end of March, and this was the last concert they played before the split. They had debuted in August 1996 with "Body & Soul" and had four singles certified as million-sellers. On that Christmas night the members were between 15 and 18 years old. The last show came three days after the release of Carry On my way, the group's final album before the breakup. The official film of the tour ends with "Starting Over," the title track of their debut album. After Fukuoka, SPEED sang on the New Year's Eve Kōhaku Uta Gassen, and on March 31, 2000, an appearance on TV Asahi's Music Station closed three years and eight months of activity. It was not the end after all. The four came back together for limited projects in 2001 and 2003, and in 2008 they resumed work under the SPEED name. In 2026 the group marks thirty years since its debut. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/selena-1995-02-26/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/selena-1995-02-26/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn the evening of Sunday, February 26, 1995, Selena headlined Go Tejano Day at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, in front of 61,041 people at the Astrodome. She rode across the rodeo dirt in a white carriage, took the stage in a purple jumpsuit and opened with a medley of disco hits sung in English. The roughly 55-minute set leaned on her 1994 album Amor Prohibido and closed with "Como la Flor." The show was filmed and televised, and later came out on record and DVD. Selena kept playing smaller venues until at least March 19. She died on March 31, at 23, and the Astrodome show, the last big concert of hers captured on film, is the one people still call her last concert. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/soundgarden-2017-05-17/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/soundgarden-2017-05-17/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn May 17, 2017, Soundgarden played the Fox Theatre in Detroit on their spring North American tour. Over about two hours they played 17 songs in the main set and two in the encore, closing the main set with "Jesus Christ Pose." Midway through the final song, "Slaves & Bulldozers," Chris Cornell sang a passage of the old gospel song "In My Time of Dying." Cornell died in Detroit later that night, at the age of 52, and the show became his last performance with Soundgarden. It had not been billed as a farewell, and six more dates remained on the tour. The surviving members, Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron, said they would not carry on as Soundgarden without him. Since then, though, they have taken the stage under the band's name twice with guest singers, at a 2019 tribute concert and at their 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. That is why this site files the Detroit show under "Not the end after all." https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/avicii-2016-08-28/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/avicii-2016-08-28/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn August 28, 2016, the Swedish DJ and producer Avicii (Tim Bergling) played his last DJ set at Ushuaïa Ibiza, the open-air club on the Spanish island where he had held a summer residency for five years. In March he had announced that his 2016 dates would be his last tour and his last shows, and the final Sunday of that residency became his final performance. He was 26. In front of a sold-out crowd he opened with "Without You," a song he had not yet released, and over two hours worked through hits including "Levels," "Wake Me Up" and "Waiting for Love." The last track of the night, according to reports, was his own mashup of "Simon Says" and "Who." As the lights went down, he thanked the crowd and told them he could not have asked for a better last show. He never performed for an audience again, and died in April 2018 at 28. Footage from the night was used in the 2024 Netflix film Avicii – My Last Show, and on the tenth anniversary, in 2026, the full two-hour set was officially released for the first time. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/luna-sea-2000-12-27/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/luna-sea-2000-12-27/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn December 27, 2000, LUNA SEA closed the second of two nights at Tokyo Dome billed as *LUNA SEA THE FINAL ACT TOKYO DOME*, and with it more than eleven years as a band. The word they had used in November was not the ordinary Japanese term for a breakup but *shūmaku*, the final fall of the curtain. This was the last show, chosen and staged by the band itself. On the concert film, the night opens with "LOVELESS," the band's usual first song, takes in two numbers with DJ KRUSH and a drum-and-bass solo spot, and ends with "WISH." In his last words from the stage, singer RYUICHI said that in a way a lot of things would start from here, and asked everyone to keep their eyes open and go after what they truly believed in. It was not the last show after all. Seven years later the five came back to the same dome for one night, and in 2010 they restarted under the same name with a campaign called "REBOOT." In 2025, their first Tokyo Dome headline show in fourteen years opened with footage of this night and that final speech. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/princess-princess-1996-05-31/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/princess-princess-1996-05-31/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn May 31, 1996, Princess Princess played their breakup concert at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan. It was the final night of *PRINCESS PRINCESS PANIC TOUR '96 Kaisan o Asobō*, a farewell tour that had taken them to all 47 prefectures of Japan since January. The breakup had been announced the previous October, and this was the last show the five women had chosen for themselves. The concert film *The Last Live* preserves the whole night: 35 songs in about three hours. The setlist opened with "SEVEN YEARS AFTER," ran through a medley of 19 songs that lasted more than 20 minutes, and built to a rock-heavy second half under falling silver streamers. "Diamonds" came in the encore. The last song, in a double encore played in white outfits, was "19 GROWING UP -ode to my buddy-." It was not the last show after all. After the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, the five reunited under the same name for a limited run and played for disaster relief until 2016. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/hikaru-genji-1995-09-03/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/hikaru-genji-1995-09-03/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn September 3, 1995, Hikaru Genji played the final show of their "graduation concert" at Rainbow Hall in Nagoya, and the group broke up with it. They had debuted in 1987 as a seven-member boy band who sang and danced on roller skates, and in 1988 their singles took the top three places on Oricon's chart for the year. After two members left in 1994, the remaining five carried on as Hikaru Genji Super 5, and it was those five who played the last concert. Fans in the hall held up boards thanking the group for eight years. When the opening bars of "Graduation," reported as the last song, began, people in the audience could be heard sobbing. The youngest member, Atsuhiro Sato, choked up during his farewell words. At the very end the five took off their roller skates, set them in a row at the center of the stage and walked off. More than thirty years later, no show has been played under the Hikaru Genji name since that night. In 2025, a documentary series marked thirty years since the breakup, and in August 2026 the group's catalog began arriving on streaming services. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/the-band-1976-11-25/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/the-band-1976-11-25/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, the Band said goodbye to the road with a concert they called The Last Waltz, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Some 5,000 people paid $25 for a turkey dinner and an evening of ballroom dancing before the music began. The Band opened with "Up on Cripple Creek" a little after 9 p.m., and over the next five hours were joined by Ronnie Hawkins, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan and others. After an all-star "I Shall Be Released" and a long jam, the five came back one more time for "Don't Do It," and the night ended after 2 a.m. Martin Scorsese filmed the concert, and The Last Waltz reached theaters in 1978. But it was not quite the end of the Band. In 1983, four of the five re-formed under the same name without Robbie Robertson, which makes this farewell a last concert that turned out not to be the last. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/janis-joplin-1970-08-12/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/janis-joplin-1970-08-12/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn the night of August 12, 1970, Janis Joplin played Harvard Stadium in Boston with the Full Tilt Boogie Band. It was one date in a summer series of outdoor concerts, and tickets cost two dollars. That afternoon the sound equipment had been stolen, and the show ran hours late while replacements were found. When Joplin finally came out at about 10:30 p.m., she opened with "Tell Mama" and sang "Mercedes Benz," a song the crowd had never heard and one that would end up on her posthumous album Pearl, almost entirely a cappella. The set lasted a little over half an hour, and the sources do not agree on what the last song was. Nobody billed it as a farewell; a fall tour with the band was already planned. Less than two months later, on October 4, Joplin died at 27, and that night in Boston became her last concert. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/pink-floyd-2005-07-02/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/pink-floyd-2005-07-02/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn the night of July 2, 2005, Pink Floyd played Live 8, the charity concert in London's Hyde Park. It was the first time since 1981 that Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright had shared a stage. Following The Who, they went on just after 11 p.m. for a set of about 24 minutes: "Breathe" and "Money" from The Dark Side of the Moon, "Wish You Were Here," dedicated to Syd Barrett, and finally "Comfortably Numb," the last song of the night for the band. The reunion was meant as a one-off, and no one billed it as a farewell. But Gilmour turned down the tour offers that followed, and Rick Wright's death in 2008 closed off any chance of the four playing together again. The band's last tour had ended at Earls Court on October 29, 1994; this night in Hyde Park turned out to be Pink Floyd's last show, the final time they stood before an audience under that name. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/the-yellow-monkey-2001-01-08/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/the-yellow-monkey-2001-01-08/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn January 8, 2001, THE YELLOW MONKEY played Tokyo Dome under the title *Mekara Uroko 8* and then went on hiatus. It was the second of two dome shows that moved the band's anniversary concert series, *Mekara Uroko*, out of the Nippon Budokan, and it was the band's first show at Tokyo Dome. The 23-song setlist preserved on video opened with "Judy," ran through "JAM," "BURN," "Barairo no Hibi" and "Kanashiki Asian Boy," and closed with "WELCOME TO MY DOGHOUSE," a song from the band's indie days. Kazuya Yoshii told the crowd the four of them would be back, and before the last song he shouted that they were going back to being ordinary stray dogs. Three and a half years later the hiatus became a breakup. Even so, this was not the last concert after all. The four reunited in 2016, and the next year they returned to the same Tokyo Dome and opened their show with the song they had closed on that night. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/tina-turner-2009-05-05/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/tina-turner-2009-05-05/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn May 5, 2009, Tina Turner played the final show of the Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour at Sheffield Arena in the north of England. The tour had opened in Kansas City the previous October and run to 90 shows across North America and Europe; the Sheffield date, first booked for March, had become the last stop only because a bout of flu forced it to be rescheduled. In front of a packed arena, the 69-year-old worked through two decades of hits, closed the main set with "Proud Mary," and ended the encore with "Be Tender With Me Baby." It was the last concert she ever gave. Nobody had billed it as a farewell. But when she flew out the next morning with her husband, she had already decided she would not come back. She later said she wanted people to remember her at her best. She spent her remaining years in Switzerland, said goodbye to public life through a stage musical and a documentary about her life, and died on May 24, 2023, at the age of 83. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/zard-2004-07-23/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/zard-2004-07-23/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn July 23, 2004, at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, ZARD played the final show of the What a beautiful moment Tour, the first and, as it turned out, the only nationwide tour of the project's career. Thirteen years after her debut, Izumi Sakai, a singer who had almost never appeared on television or on stage, traveled the country to sing in front of her audience. The tour had been planned as three shows and grew to eleven. The tour is remembered through a stage dressed with stone columns and roses, a microphone, chair and table, and an orchestral overture. Its footage came out on DVD in 2005 and is still shown in cinemas on the anniversary of her death. What she sang at the Budokan that day, in what order, and which song came last, is something the available sources do not record. Izumi Sakai died on May 27, 2007, at the age of 40. The Budokan show became the last time ZARD stood before an audience. That September, at the same hall, a memorial concert set her recorded voice and film against a live band, and concerts in that format continue today. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/pink-lady-1981-03-31/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/pink-lady-1981-03-31/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTPink Lady, the duo behind a run of chart-topping singles in late-1970s Japan, announced their split on September 1, 1980, and said goodbye on March 31, 1981, with a farewell concert at Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo, four years and seven months after their debut. It was the same ballpark where Candies had played their own farewell three years earlier. The night was cold, with rain mixed with sleet, and the two singers were soaked. The official live album, Sayonara Pink Lady, opens with the sound of fireworks and runs through a medley of early B-sides, hits such as "Kamereon Āmī" ("chameleon army"), their final single "OH!" and "Guddobai Songu" ("goodbye song"). As the two embraced in tears, a TV director reportedly hurried them along to fit the broadcast. Limited-time reunions followed, and in 2010 the duo declared that they were "no longer disbanded." "OH!", sung that rainy night, was sung again in 2026 at Mie's 50th-anniversary concert. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/abba-1980-03-27/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/abba-1980-03-27/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn March 27, 1980, ABBA played the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, closing a 16-day tour of Japan that took in 11 shows. It was the final leg of the tour they had begun in North America the previous autumn. All six Budokan shows sold out, and more than 100,000 people saw the group in Japan. It turned out to be the last concert ABBA ever gave in front of a paying audience. Nobody knew that at the time. Back in Stockholm, the four went on recording what became Super Trouper and kept appearing on television until the end of 1982, but they never toured again. They went on a break that became indefinite, and when they finally reunited in 2021 for Voyage, their first album in 40 years, the people on stage in London were not the four themselves but digital avatars modeled on how they looked in 1979. No press account of the last night has been found. The fan-edited setlist on record follows the running order of the 1979 tour and ends with "Waterloo," but another fan source says "Waterloo" was dropped in Japan, so the last song of ABBA's last show remains uncertain. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/kiss-2023-12-02/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/kiss-2023-12-02/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn December 2, 2023, KISS played the final show of their End of the Road World Tour at Madison Square Garden in New York, the second of two nights that Paul Stanley had called "the last two shows of the band." About 20,000 fans filled the sold-out arena. Three of the four descended from the rafters for "Detroit Rock City," Gene Simmons breathed fire and spat blood, and Stanley flew over the crowd to a small stage in the middle of the floor. After about two hours and 15 minutes they closed with "Rock and Roll All Nite," Stanley smashing his guitar under the confetti, then unveiled digital avatars of the four members. But it was the end of the road, not of the stage: in November 2025, KISS played again, without makeup, at a fan event in Las Vegas, and more shows there have been announced for November 2026. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/bish-2023-06-29/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/bish-2023-06-29/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTBiSH, a six-member Japanese group who called themselves "a punk band without instruments", announced in December 2021 that they would break up in 2023. On June 29, 2023, they played their last concert, Bye-Bye Show for Never, at Tokyo Dome, the stadium they had named as their goal in 2016, and disbanded with it. Before 50,000 fans they performed 28 songs over more than three hours with a live band, the opener twice, riding floats around the arena floor and each speaking to the fans in the encore. The last, sung by the six alone in a second encore, was their final single, "Bye-Bye Show", after which they sank out of sight beneath the stage. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/v6-2021-11-01/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/v6-2021-11-01/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTV6, a six-member Japanese pop group, broke up on November 1, 2021, the 26th anniversary of their debut. That evening they played the last show of their final nationwide tour, LIVE TOUR V6 groove, at Makuhari Event Hall in the Makuhari Messe complex in Chiba, east of Tokyo, and streamed it live. Over more than two and a half hours the six sang 41 songs chosen by the members, 14 of them sung for the first time. The main set ended with "Me o Tojireba" ("if I close my eyes"), written for the tour; after the encore, "95 groove", they waved until they were out of sight, and a farewell message on the screen closed with the words "until we meet again, someday, somewhere". https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/one-direction-2015-10-31/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/one-direction-2015-10-31/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTIn August 2015, One Direction said they would take a break the following year. On October 31, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson played the final night of the On the Road Again Tour at the Motorpoint Arena Sheffield in England. It was the band's last concert before the hiatus, seven months after Zayn Malik's departure. On the third of three Sheffield nights, the four ran through their hits and hugged on stage, Horan recalled their first-ever gig five years earlier, and afterwards the members thanked their fans and crew and promised to return. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/the-checkers-1992-12-28/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/the-checkers-1992-12-28/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTThe Checkers, a seven-piece Japanese band, announced their breakup in 1992, the tenth year since their debut. Their FINAL TOUR played seven cities that December and ended with four nights at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. The last night, December 28, was their last concert, and fans gathered outside the hall as well. On a round stage in the middle of the arena floor, the band opened with an instrumental by the four players and went on to play everything from their debut single to their last. They came back for the encore in checked outfits recalling their early days; singer Fumiya Fujii, reportedly running a fever, broke down in tears during "Long Road" and the crowd sang on. The final song, "I Have a Dream," was sung in chorus to a single acoustic guitar. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/wham-1986-06-28/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/wham-1986-06-28/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTWham! announced their split in early 1986, and on June 28 George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, both 23, played their final concert, The Final, to 72,000 people at Wembley Stadium in London. Elton John and Simon Le Bon joined them on stage, and the last song of the night was the encore, “I'm Your Man.” At the end of an eight-hour bill, the duo, dressed in black, played for about two hours, from their debut single to their farewell No. 1, “The Edge of Heaven.” Elton turned up in a Ronald McDonald costume to play piano, the two embraced as it ended, and no official film or recording of the night has ever been released. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/john-lennon-1974-11-28/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/john-lennon-1974-11-28/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn Thanksgiving night, November 28, 1974, John Lennon joined Elton John onstage at Madison Square Garden in New York and played three songs, paying off a bet that his single "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" would reach No. 1. His appearance was kept secret until Elton introduced him, and he walked on in a black suit to a roar from the crowd. He played his new No. 1 and two Beatles songs, none of which, Elton said, he had ever performed on stage. Yoko Ono, from whom he was then separated, was in the house, and the two met backstage afterward. He never played another concert, and he died on December 8, 1980, at the age of 40. His last song that night was "I Saw Her Standing There." https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/kat-tun-2025-11-08/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/kat-tun-2025-11-08/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTKAT-TUN, a Japanese pop group, disbanded on March 31, 2025. Seven months later, on November 8, its last three members, Kazuya Kamenashi, Tatsuya Ueda and Yuichi Nakamaru, came together again for one last concert, Break the KAT-TUN, at ZOZO Marine Stadium in Chiba, east of Tokyo. They performed 51 songs for about 30,000 fans; the last was "Real Face#2", the trio's remake of their 2006 debut single. It was the group's first open-air show, played on a stage built as a pirate ship. For the debut single "Real Face", the original six-member recording played while lights in the former members' colors filled their empty places. Former member Jin Akanishi watched from the audience, and the night ended with about 3,000 fireworks, a champagne fight and the pirate-ship set collapsing. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/perfume-2025-09-23/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/perfume-2025-09-23/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn September 21, 2025, the 20th anniversary of their major-label debut, the Japanese trio Perfume announced that they would go into “cold sleep” from 2026. Over the next two nights they played Tokyo Dome. The second show, on September 23, was their last concert before the hiatus, and it was streamed worldwide. It opened with the same “GAME” sequence they had staged at Tokyo Dome in 2020; the three then acted out the story of their album *Nebyura Romansu* (“Nebula Romance”) before dancing with the crowd through a Yasutaka Nakata remix of their early hits. In her closing speech, a-chan revealed that the idea of the cold sleep had first come from the people around them. The last of the 22 songs was “Megurūpu,” after which the three walked out from the center of the cross-shaped runway in three directions, reversing the opening of their first Tokyo Dome show in 2010, and vanished. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/hibari-misora-1989-02-07/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/hibari-misora-1989-02-07/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn February 7, 1989, Hibari Misora gave two shows, one in the afternoon and one in the evening, at the Kyushu Kosei Nenkin Kaikan, a concert hall in Kokura, Kitakyushu. It was only the second day of a nationwide tour, and it turned out to be her last concert. The shows were produced by her son, Kazuya Kato. The afternoon show started 15 minutes late, and when those around her considered calling off the evening show, she went on as planned. Her final single, "Kawa no Nagare no Yō ni" ("like the flow of a river"), released less than a month earlier, was among the songs she sang that day. No film of the concert exists; a cassette recorded as a sound check later became a two-disc live album. https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/bob-marley-1980-09-23/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/bob-marley-1980-09-23/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTOn September 23, 1980, Bob Marley and the Wailers played the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the U.S. leg of the Uprising Tour. The rest of the tour was called off, and Marley died on May 11, 1981, at the age of 36, so the Pittsburgh show turned out to be his last concert. The theater was sold out. The show opened with "Natural Mystic" and ran to 19 songs, five of them from the new album *Uprising*; a student in the crowd remembers Marley dancing through almost all of the roughly 90 minutes, and the band came back for three encores. The last song he performed that night was "Get Up, Stand Up." https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/number-girl-2022-12-11/https://shuenroku.net/en/performances/number-girl-2022-12-11/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTNUMBER GIRL broke up in 2002, reunited in 2019 and, in August 2022, announced from a festival stage that they would split again. Their last show, at PIA ARENA MM in Yokohama on December 11, 2022, sold out on the first day and drew about 10,000 people, with a live broadcast on Space Shower TV and in cinemas across Japan. Over a 27-song main set and a four-song encore, Shutoku Mukai restarted a song that had fallen apart and chain-lit cigarettes. The night ended with “Tōmei Shōjo,” a song they had already played three times.