UPDATE TO BELOW STORY....
Rod Stewart has famously said he will "never retire” because he was "put on this earth to be a singer and will keep doing so for as long as the good lord lets me.”
And with that he tells AARP (American Association of Retired Person) magazine what he's working on.
"At the moment, I’m doing a covers album of all the songs I’ve ever wanted to cover … I’m supposed to do a country album … and we’re working on a Faces album, so that’s three projects that have got to be done.”
He also has no plans to stop performing, saying he wants to tour with "a big orchestra and play those glorious songs I did from the Great American Songbook. I enjoy doing concerts more than I did back then. Maybe I’ve come full circle to appreciate how lucky I’ve been.”
And as for having all this energy at 80 years of age, he can thank Frank Sinatra who told him that in order to be a great singer you have to have powerful lungs.
“We do a lot of underwater training, where the trainer throws a brick into the pool and I have to dive in, push the brick to the end of the pool, and come up.”
Stewart resumes his Las Vegas residency, The Encore Shows, at Caesars Palace next Thursday, May 29th, followed by summer dates in the U.S., Canada and his homeland, England, when he performs at the Glastonbury festival on June 29th.
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Rod Stewart will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the American Music Awards on Monday, May 26th at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
He will also perform on the show. It will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+.