Beyoncé brought her six-night run at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to an emotional close on Monday, telling fans she didn’t want to leave as she was overcome with gratitude on stage.
Wearing a shirt bearing an image of Tina Turner, the superstar paused during the final moments of her Cowboy Carter Tour show to tap her chest and point to the late music icon, who died last year in a sweet tribute.
As the crowd erupted into applause and chants of her name, Beyoncé smiled and admitted: “I don’t want to go home”.
She then composed herself before starting her iconic hit, If I Were a Boy to fans’ delight.
It was a fitting end to a record-breaking residency that saw more than 275,000 fans attend across six shows—earning over £45 million in ticket sales, according to venue figures.
The run made her the highest-grossing artist in Tottenham Hotspur Stadium’s history and the first to perform six concerts at the venue, beating her own five-show record set during 2023’s Renaissance World Tour.
The evening also featured a touching tribute to another music legend.
Performing her rendition of The Beatles’ Blackbird—renamed Blackbiird on her Cowboy Carter album—Beyoncé thanked Sir Paul McCartney for writing the song, which she described as “one of the best songs ever made.”
She later reiterated those sentiments on social media.
Sharing a carousel of tour images on Instagram, she wore a custom Stella McCartney shirt featuring two black birds and the word “Blackbiird” on the hip—a nod to both the song and the designer, who is McCartney’s daughter.
“Thank you Sir Paul McCartney for writing one of the best songs ever made,” she wrote.
“Every time I sing it I feel so honoured. And it is a full circle moment to wear your beautiful daughter’s design.”
The singer included Blackbiird in every night of her London setlist, using the original Beatles recording as part of the arrangement. First released in 1968, the song was inspired by the American civil rights movement and remains a powerful anthem of resilience.
McCartney, 82, has previously praised Beyoncé’s cover.
Beyoncé has paid a heartfelt tribute to Sir Paul McCartney, thanking him for writing The Beatles' classic Blackbird, which she described as “one of the best songs ever made.”
The tribute came after the final night of her six-show run at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where she closed out the UK leg of her Cowboy Carter tour.
McCartney, 82, has previously praised Beyoncé’s cover.
“I am so happy with @beyonce’s version of my song Blackbird,” he wrote on Instagram last year.
“I think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the civil rights message that inspired me to write the song in the first place. I think Beyoncé has done a fab version and would urge anyone who has not heard it yet to check it out. You are going to love it!”
McCartney also revealed that the two had connected directly: “I spoke to her on FaceTime and she thanked me for writing it and letting her do it. I told her the pleasure was all mine and I thought she had done a killer version of the song.”
