I’m not one for simply quoting from other internet resources (go do your own searching!) but this, from the Guardian Online is just too funny to let pass.
Last week the Rolling Stones played a huge, free concert in Rio de Janeiro (apparently so Mick Jagger’s last (known) lovechild could “see what daddy does for a living” – here’s a newsflash, kid: he struts around in a leotard pretending he’s 40 years younger than he is). The Guardian covered the event (nice work if you can get it), interviewing several locals about the concert. One of those they spoke to was a local ‘celebrity’ Keith Richards impersonator who was miffed to find out that he’d been left off the guestlist. And just how old was this – apparently quite-convincing – lookalike (or ‘lookielikey’ as some annoyingly call it)? A sprightly 94 years old!
Ninety-four! Now I know a lot has been made of the Stones’ ages, and Richards has never looked younger than sixty (I swear, he has that ageing disease just without the premature death) but when it takes a man 30 years your senior to look like you, it really is time to give it a rest.
Personally, I think the Rolling Stones should have stopped at the end of the seventies. They have undoubtedly produced some outstanding music, but their output has been severely questionable since 1980 and now they are trading purely on past glories. It would have been better to have blazed, gone out on a high, and have left behind a solid, uncompromising body of work. Instead we’re subjected to witnessing them sully their own reputation by reducing what were once great songs to lip-service litanies dulled by over-familiarity. Tune out, turn in, drop off.
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