Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck 'Making Progress' on New Collaboration

Classic rock fans, get ready for the first studio collaboration between Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck in over a quarter century. The pair, who famously tracked Curtis Mayfield's 'People Get Ready' for Beck's 1985 album 'Flash' are planning to work together this year.

"Jeff and I had lunch together just before Christmas," Stewart told Rolling Stone. "He's going up to record some tracks with his band in February in San Francisco and to send them over to me, so we're making progress."

Prior to 'Flash,' the pair previously teamed on the late 1960s sets 'Truth' and 'Beck-ola.' "They have some really clever things planned," Stewart's manager Arnold Stiefel added. "It's mind-f---ing stuff."

Beck and Stewart reunited in 2009 to perform their Mayfield cover at a Beck concert held at the El Rey theatre in Los Angeles. The album would be Stewart's first bona-fide rock project in years. For much of the past decade he has sustained on the strength of his 'American Songbook' standards collections.

Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck's 'People Get Ready'