This summer at the Desert Trip festival in California’s Coachella Valley, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan,TheWho,PaulMcCartney, Roger Waters and Neil Young assembled on the same bill for the first time to give 75,000 mostly baby boomers, average age 51, the live experience of a lifetime. With a combined age among the core performers of well upwards of 700 years – Ronnie Wood being the spring chicken at a sprightly 69 – it was an event unapologetically stuck in the past. But in a year that has seen the tragic loss of so many important senior musicians and cultural figures, it was also somehow timely.
The Stones’ first new album in 10 years, Blue & Lonesome, shows even less enthusiasm than Desert Trip to admit to occurring in the age of…
