Getting older ...

[andy-hughes]

A couple of days ago, I heard a track off the new Paul McCartney album, and Sir Thumbs Aloft in the studio talking about it, and it dawned on me. Both talking, and more importantly singing, he sounds OLD.

Of course, he is approaching seventy, but I want Paul mcCartney to be as young as he was in his Beatles days, and to be frozen in time with that voice, and those songs.

If I hear that he is getting old, I have to acknowledge that I am getting old as well. The Beatles have been part of my life since I was nine, and I'm 57 now, and in coversation with my youngest daughter who is 22, I had to explain who George Harrison was.

We all get older a day at a time, no-one any faster, no-one any slower - although the illusion of both is all around us.

I don't want to be old, and I don't want The Beatles to be old either, so regretfully, I shall be steering clear of Paul's live and recorded output because it reminds me that he won't be here for ever, and by logcail extention, neither will I.

[ummmm]

I don't want to get old either.

[craft1948]

You think he sounds old, have you listened to Rod Stewart lately?

[rowanwitch]

Funny it doesn't bother me at all... time passes and we are mortal but I wouldn't trade being young again for what I have now... As for PM I don't think he's done anything decent since the frog chorus anyway...

[TheOtherHalf]

pop stars do get older but some still retain their charisma and we will always have memories of what they were like when we were in our teens

[jno]

well, John isn't old - but give me Paul's way any time!

[sunny-dave]

Leonard Cohen - has sounded old for the last 45 years - and is now singing better than ever ...

[chi-chi66]

now he's given up the dreaded weed for his daughter,I expect he will
sound even older, gone will be the' youthful ' gesture!! be more like a thumbs down.

[craft1948]

I think it's weird that he's given up weed for this daughter but not for his other children.............

[Mosaic]

The thing is Andy, we were never meant to become old. It was our parents and grandparents who were old. I think the pre-boomers aged badly, and fashions made them appear old.
It is very strange to realise that we are now the old - but I don't think we are 'old' in the old-fashioned sense - if that makes any sense......
Personally I don't want Clint Eastwood to stop looking like Harry Callaghan - ever. He's keeping very well for his age but looks disturbingly like Ramesses II nowadays.
Don't dwell on it, just concentrate on misbehaving for a good few years to come.

[LoftyLottie]

I am steering clear of Paul's live and recorded output because I can't stand his voice and I can't stand that new My Valentine thing he has put out. I agree with Rowan about Paul.

Rod sounds old, but I still love him.

[LoftyLottie]

Mosaic you are right. Us baby boomers will never get 'old' as such!!!! My bones ache these days and the mirror isn't kind but I am not 'old' ;o). I am proud to be the first generation of those who remain young until they peg it!!

[jno]

we are not 'old' in the old-fashioned sense, Mosaic, we are 'young' in the new sense of 'self-deluding', which makes *real* young people snigger behind their hands

[Everhelpful]

I'm nearly 72 but as daft as I was when I was 22.! Golden Wedding coming up on March 17th. where has the time gone.!!

[LoftyLottie]

Hi Triggs. Thank you x

[andy-hughes]

Mosaic - how true! I watch Dirty Harry and I yearn for the first time i saw it - the fashions then were current, and the 'vigilante' cop was a new concept.

I completely embrace my age personally, it's the touchstones of my youth getting older that bothers me, but I still accept that as well.

[Hopkirk]

What worries me most is that Linda Lusardi's boobs must be heading south.

[shoota]

Suits me Hop - I live down south! :-)

[andy-hughes]

Hopkirk - I bet they're not you know - she has always looked after herself very well.

I interviewed Linda when she first started acting, and when they say you should always look above a woman's chest, apart from the fact that I think that's simply courtesy, I had no problem zeroing in on her eyes, they are gorgeous!

[Hopkirk]

You've met her!

You lucky, lucky b........

If you had stared at her chest, you would hardly have been the first.
(You could say she could hardly complain)

I know what you mean about her eyes. Lovely