Age is nothing more than a number that is yours to defy

A Different View with Dave O’Connell

This week sees Paul McCartney celebrate his eightieth birthday – and while he’s clearly no longer the cheeky chappie with the mop top who helped change the face of pop music forever, he’s still enough of a spring chicken to headline Glastonbury’s prime Saturday night slot at the end of the month.

Peggy Seeger turns 87 this week – although you wouldn’t have thought that if you saw her live in the Roisín Dubh last Saturday night, where she sang, told stories and played superlative guitar, keyboards and banjo for two hours or more.

Henry Kissinger turned 99 on May 27, and a long interview in the Sunday Times last weekend suggested he’s lost none of his edge or intellectual firepower either, despite the fact that he was already nearly ten years old when he and his family had to flee Nazi Germany for a new life in the United States.

Mick Jagger is 78 and the Rolling Stones are on a world tour (temporarily derailed but that’s down to Covid, which can hit you at any age); Dolly Parton is 75 and, not satisfied with her status as the Queen of Country, she’s now taken to writing thrillers with James Patterson.

There’s clearly no shortage of life in the old dogs yet.

Macca and Jagger have seemed to have remained the same age and with the same attiude as they were and had in the early sixties; two whippets who work the stage like twentysomethings, even if the music is mostly from their heyday rather than brand new.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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