For some years now I’ve had a front row seat to my own inevitable demise. It isn’t exactly an exciting show. (If it were, I probably wouldn’t be able to write this.) Often the show hangs on one grey hair winding its way into my chestnut mane at the leisurely rate of 1.5 cm per month. This past week, however, […]
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Lessons from the tragicomic aging rock star
I bought my first album back in 1980: The Who’s Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy. The record was packed with classics like “Pinball Wizard,” “The Seeker” and “My Generation” in which Roger Daltrey sings that immortal line, “I hope I die before I get old.” The line may be immortal, but alas, Daltrey isn’t. Nor […]