Barry Manilow on His Final Tour: 'For Me, It's Enough' — billboard.com

Barry Manilow says he's not kidding about the One Last Time! title of his latest -- and, he maintains, final -- concert tour. Barry Manilow Scores 50th Hit On Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart "It's the last big tour," Manilow tells Billboard. The trek starts Wednesday in Omaha, Neb., and plays 27 dates before wrapping up June 17 in his hometown of Brooklyn, N.Y. "It doesn't mean I'm retiring or anything. I'll do shows and I'll promote albums if I make any more, but no more big tours. That's it. It's too much packing. It's 40 years -- more than that, really -- of packing and waiting for room service. People think it's glamorous, but glamorous is the last word I would use for this job. You don't see anything; you see the inside of your hotel room, you see the inside of a car, you see the inside of your dressing room and then you're gone. I haven't gone sightseeing, ever. It's a job.

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