Remeber when The Beatles said Never trust anyone over thirty...?!
Question: I wonder if they have rethought that statement since Jon's younger boy is now 32 years old!
Has anyone ever heard if a reporter ever mentioned this particular quote to any of the FAB FOUR?
Answers: I wonder if they have rethought that statement since Jon's younger boy is now 32 years old!
Has anyone ever heard if a reporter ever mentioned this particular quote to any of the FAB FOUR?
Apparently it was not them but Jack Weinberg, twenty-four- year-old leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, California who said: "We have a saying in the movement that we don’t trust anybody over 30".He said this back in 1965.
Weinberg later said he did not actually believe the statement, but said it as a kind of taunt to a question asking if there were outside adults manipulating the organization.
But maybe in music generally, we should believe that we shouldn't rock out to anyone much over 30.
The evidence seems to point that way.
From "Spectator":
"So how old is too old to rock? In his review of the Beatles songbook, "Revolution in the Head", the late critic Ian MacDonald noted in passing that the quality of rock music declines precipitously after its creators turn 30. I thought this too harsh a judgment, until I crosschecked the rockers with their birthdates in the All Music Guide.
Mick and Keith turned 30 in 1973, the year, not coincidentally, of Goat's Head Soup, the Stones last good album. Paul McCartney turned 30 in 1972, one year before his last decent album, Band on the Run. John Lennon turned 30 in 1970; last decent album, Plastic Ono Band, 1970. Bob Dylan, born 1941, last decent, New Morning, 1970. Lou Reed: born 1942, last good, Transformer, 1972. Rod Stewart, born 1945, last decent, A Night on the Town, 1976. Pete Townshend, born 1945, last good, Quadrophenia, 1973. Iggy Pop, born 1947, last good, Lust For Life, 1977. Elvis Costello, born 1955, last good, Blood & Chocolate, 1986. Prince, born 1958, last good, Sign 'O' The Times, 1987. Bono (U2), born 1960, last decent, Achtung Baby, 1991. Michael Stipe (REM), born 1960, last good, Automatic For the People, 1992."
I hope Sean Lennon has better luck, now that he's 32!
I don't think the Beatles said that.
Yes, I remember when they said that....and I remember when Paul sang," Will you still need me when I'M 64?" Well he's now 65 or 66, and I still love him and his music and all Beatle music!! They were the best.
What about The Who's anthem statement, "Hope I die before I get Old"...I wonder do they still perform that song if and when they do a concert.
Their generation still rocks by the way.