Well, the original question was about retiring because of age. But thanks for the 2 cents anyway.
Oh, that Patti Smith should just call it a day...she looks awful! And Marianne Faithfull? What happened to that adorable little "bird" who sang "As Tears Go By" on Hullabaloo? Tom Jones? Ewwww!!! He's not sexy anymore! Yuk!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/30/03
instead of forcing them to retire, try preventing all those 60-ish audience members from buying tickets to the concerts. As long as people buy, performers will sell.
As someone on the + side of 40, I gotta say "hell to the no!"
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
I'd do Tom Jones to this day. PattiB knows of my ardor for him, weird dye job and tight face and all.
I saw TJ a couple of years ago and he honestly sounds better now than he did in his heyday.
Ann Wilson is another one whose voice got better with age.
"For God's sake, give me Ann and Nancy Wilson...Now when these women wrote and sang a lyric, you know they had LIVED it...They wrote it, they snorted it, they f***ed it ok? They paved the stoney road. There was no stoney road before them. They did things that would bring these little bitches in HALF. "
--Sandra Bernhard (who def should not retire)
"For God's sake, give me Ann and Nancy Wilson...Now when these women wrote and sang a lyric, you know they had LIVED it...They wrote it, they snorted it, they f***ed it ok? They paved the stoney road. There was no stoney road before them. They did things that would bring these little bitches in HALF. "
--Sandra Bernhard (who def should not retire)
"For God's sake, give me Ann and Nancy Wilson...Now when these women wrote and sang a lyric, you know they had LIVED it...They wrote it, they snorted it, they f***ed it ok? They paved the stoney road. There was no stoney road before them. They did things that would bring these little bitches in HALF. "
--Sandra Bernhard (who def should not retire)
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
I think of that quote every time the Wilson sisters are brought up.
That section still makes me howl. That and the Mariah Carey section.
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