Dropping Like Flies

[grateful]

Cookie Roberts. 75 is the new 27.

[WALKonBack]

It's almost shocking, that famous people die, of old age now.

[Space Freely]

It's almost shocking, that famous people die, of old age now.

Given that I'm closer to 75 than 27, I'm going to argue that 75 is not old age.

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Was kind of joking of my mid-life crisis purchase recently and realized that my mid life was over a decade ago with males avg age of 76 in the US.
I'd have to live to 96 for that purchase to be mid-life

[challenged]

https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend   

TL;DR

But there's another sense in which rock is very nearly dead: Just about every rock legend you can think of is going to die within the next decade or so.

Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month).

[grateful]

There's already like a whole thread on this topic...SMH


https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=24988.0

[Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

I like Blondie....but putting Debbie Harry in that list is re-duck-u-less

[Space Freely]

I like Blondie....but putting Debbie Harry in that list is re-duck-u-less

You're right. Women do tend to live longer.

[hutch]

https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend   

TL;DR

But there's another sense in which rock is very nearly dead: Just about every rock legend you can think of is going to die within the next decade or so.

Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month).

Those people might be alive but their rock sauce is weak dead...they are legends for their contributions four or five decades ago except Neil

If there is any hope it’s the young


The word rock has come to mean whatever young people play...it has little connection to chuck berry or rock and roll

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

I like Blondie....but putting Debbie Harry in that list is re-duck-u-less

One could make the argument she has sold more records than Bryan Ferry, Van Morrison, or Ray Davies (unless I am way off on my sales figures I just googled) and probably has more "recognizable to common people in 2019" songs than all three together. Debbie Harry being on this doesn't seem absurd to me.

[hutch]

Rock and roll in modern times is more a verb than a noun

More embodying an attitude (which changes) than a style of music

[nkotb]

I will only be sad when the following famous people die:

* Ric Flair
* Remaining Beastie Boys
* Robert Pollard
* Mick Foley

[hutch]

I will only be sad when the following famous people die:


* Robert Pollard

That will be a sad day indeed

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

I will only be sad when the following famous people die:

* Ric Flair
* Remaining Beastie Boys
* Robert Pollard
* Mick Foley

You forgot the inventor of the Wet Willie.

[nkotb]

You forgot the inventor of the Wet Willie.

already dead AND I DIDN'T TAKE IT WELL