Rod Stewart's Rock Classics album almost didn't happen

Rod Stewart is in the midst of a tour behind his latest album, Still The Same...Great Rock Classics Of Our Time. The collection debuted at Number One on the Billboard album chart and has been generating buzz thanks to the success of Stewart's cover of the Creedence Clearwater Revival tune, "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" Before even considering a rock covers album, though, Stewart told us that he had something else in mind: "I wanted to do like a blue-eyed soul album, you know, obscure songs from the Sixties. But that got washed aside by Mr. Clive Davis. He said 'No, I think we should do a rock album.' So that's what we did."

Stewart's tour stops in Auburn Hills, Michigan on Tuesday, January 23rd.

The 62-year-old singer recently told Reuters that he has decided not to perform his 1978 hit "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" in concert anymore. He said, "That's gonna be gone forever. I always say that, but it seems to creep its way back in because people like it, right?"

Stewart and his fiancee Penny Lancaster plan to tie the knot this summer.

Still The Same follows up Stewart's Grammy-winning Great American Songbook series.

Stewart was recently made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Britain's Queen Elizabeth.