THE DREAM: Garth Brooks enjoys retirement
Garth Brooks was so excited after his performance at “The Dream” concert, he ran off the stage and forgot to introduce the next speaker.
“I’m just so happy I didn’t forget the words,” he said, laughing, as he returned to the stage.
Brooks is, officially, still retired, though he has a hot new single, “More than a Memory,” which made history as the first song ever to debut at No. 1 on the country charts, and a big greatest hits album due in November with three new songs. The 45-year-old singer retired in 2001 to focus on his family and says he will not tour until his youngest daughter graduates from high school in 2015.
While he was part of a celebrity pile-up on the red carpet outside of Radio City Music Hall on Tuesday night, arriving behind Gayle King and Babyface and Al Roker and Deborah Roberts, he quietly stood off to the side as others made their way past photographers and reporters.
“I’m just so honored to be here tonight,” he told me, before stepping on the carpet. “I’m honored that they would even ask me.”
Onstage, he was in good voice as he did the classic “Abraham, Martin and John” and his own anthem “We Shall Be Free,” thanking the audience for their applaise, adding, “I don’t get to do his much anymore.”
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