Leo Sayer announces big 2026 Melbourne & Sydney shows to cap his Sold-Out Australian Tour
Leo Sayer Still Feels Like Dancing!
The ’70s/’80s British International Chart-Topper and now proud Australian Citizen announces big 2026 Melbourne & Sydney shows to cap his Sold-Out Australian Tour
Final 2025 shows this weekend!
With the 2025 leg of his sold outStill Feel Like Dancing! Australia tour coming to a close this coming weekend, Leo Sayer is excited to announced two big shows for 2026. Leo will play a third and final encore show at the Palms at Crown in Melbourne on Sunday January 25, and a One Night Only STILL FEEL LIKE DANCING? show at Sydney’s State Theatre on Saturday 18 April.
Melbourne is on sale now; Sydney presale Thursday 30 Oct at 10:00AM, general on sale Mon 3 Nov10:00AM.
Leo has also been announced as part of the bill for the 2026 Mundi Mundi Big Bash, which takes place 20-22 August 2026. Tickets for the Big Bash are onsale now.
An international chart topper throughout the late ’70s and ’80s, the formerly British star has called Australia home for most of the millennium and has been an Australian citizen since 2009. Adored by Australian fans since the early days of Countdown, Sayer has maintained a popular presence in his adopted country and last year proved his cross-generational appeal with a headline appearance in front of 17,000 kids of all ages at Victoria’s iconic Meredith Music Festival.
Leo Sayer has spent over five decades as an iconic singer and songwriter. With these shows, Leo and his band will bring boundless energy, exuberance and a hit packed show to some of his favourite venues across the country.
Known the world over for his arsenal of hits – including Thunder In My Heart, Moonlighting, One Man Band, I Can’t Stop Loving You, More Than I Can Say, Have You Ever Been in Love, The Show Must Go On, When I Need You, and of course, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing – Leo promised a hit packed, high energy evening not to miss!
LAST SHOWS FOR 2025
● Thu 30 Oct: WOLLONGONG Anita’s Theatre, Thirroul, NSW
● Fri 31 Oct: PENRITH Evan Theatre, Penrith, NSW
NEW SHOWS FOR 2026
● Sun 25 Jan: MELBOURNE Palms at Crown
● Sat 18 April: SYDNEY State Theatre
● 20-22 August: MUNDI MUNDI BROKEN HILL: Big Bash
All shows on sale – tix available at www.leosayer.com
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Leo was born Gerard Hugh Sayer on May 21st, 1948, to his parents Thomas Sayer and Teresa Nolan at Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, on the south coast of England.
His first success was co-writing Roger Daltrey’s first solo album (Roger is best known as lead singer of The Who) in 1973.
He was discovered by David Courtney in 1972 and along with 60’s Pop Idol Adam Faith as manager, this team produced Leo’s first album ‘Silverbird’ in ‘73. The album featured Leo’s first self-penned hit ‘The Show Must Go On’, which was a UK no.2 record in the same year. It was also covered by Three Dog Night in the US, hitting the top ten in the USA charts.
Leo and David then composed his second album ‘Just A Boy’ in 1974. More hits followed from this: ‘Long Tall Glasses’ and ‘One Man Band’.
1975 saw a further UK chart hit with ‘Moonlighting’. All these hit singles featured Leo’s self-written lyrics, songs which were for the most part autobiographical, Leo telling us his life story so far.
‘Endless Flight’ released in 1976, took a departure from the previous albums, as Los Angeles based producer Richard Perry persuaded Leo to move out of his comfort zone and interpret other composers’ works. Nevertheless, the album featured an original composition, ‘You Make Me Feel Like Dancing’ as it’s first hit single. This song became his first US No.1 and hit the top of the charts in many countries worldwide. It also brought him his first Grammy, for R&B song of the year in 1978.
A second single from the album, ‘When I Need You’, also hit the US No.1 spot and hit No.1 in the UK as well. The ‘Endless Flight’ album sold multi-platinum and will have a 50 year anniversary in 2026.
Two more albums were produced in Los Angeles by Richard Perry – in 1977 and 1978, these producing many more hits for Leo.
His fame was now worldwide, bolstered by a growing reputation for putting on energetic and highly original live shows which garnered rave reviews on every continent.
Leo backed all this up in the early 80’s with his own UK TV series, featuring Leo duetting with many of the music world’s most famous and talented acts.
In 1980, Leo’s cover of Bobby Vee’s 60’s classic ‘More Than I Can Say’ returned him to the top of the international charts, and brought him attention throughout Asia, where the song sits regularly on top of the most requested Karaoke lists.
By 1990, Leo had released 12 albums and 27 singles. At this point he was keen to branch out on his own, using his experience to become his own producer, writing his songs solo whenever he could.
In this vein, he has released 5 self-produced albums since 2005, with the most recent, last year’s ‘1992’, hitting the top of the UK’s Heritage chart with the single ‘Wonderworld’.
Leo has experienced many career highlights along the way.
In 1993, he was the first western artist to play in Vietnam, two concerts in Ho Chi Minh city (nee Saigon).
2006 saw his ‘Thunder In My Heart’ song from 1977 get a remix by Meck, which gave him his second UK No.1.
He’s appeared on many TV spectaculars, working with The Muppets, Julie Andrews, Bing Crosby, Linda Carter, The Carpenters, Tina Turner, Randy Newman, Glenn Campbell, Phil Collins and many others.
Now based in Australia, he shows no signs of slowing down: ‘The voice is still strong, my energy is 100%, my hair is still growing, and I still love my job!’ he explains.
It’s hard to believe this 76-year-old has been in the music business for 54 years yet continues to impress.
The Show Must Go On, indeed…!
