1 May

Acting your age. Paul Prenter worked with Queen in the 1980s. This short interview snippet from then shows what remnants of the older adult world thought about the idea of rock bands playing into old age. Mick Jagger on stage at 60? Ridiculous! How quickly that’s been forgotten, in the ensuing 40 years, as the great boomer wave of kidutls flattened that old adult culture. The idea of ‘acting your age’, and making way for the next generation, is permanently gone. It’s ridiculous and perverse that teenage rock stars are still prancing on stages in the same way, now they’re over 80. But our culture now lacks any way of seeing that. To the great credit of Freddie Mercury, he thought it was ridiculous and boring to be still doing it already in his early 40s. We repeat the same teenage lives from cradle to grave. We don’t know any other way to think or act, older adult culture was destroyed.