Rock may be uncool but it's not dead yet: it's the music of the aging

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"Rock is dead – deo gratias," wrote one Guardian online reader over the weekend, reflecting a very common assumption. But that's wrong: in fact, the music is alive, and packing people in – it's just that it's finally settled in on the wrong (no, the right side) of the generation gap.
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On 18 June this year, Paul McCartney will turn 70. "There's a little cell in my brain that's never going to believe that," he says in the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine, though there are signs of the burdens of old age starting to arrive.
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The avowedly clean-living Ringo Starr will soon be 72. Bob Dylan is 71. Further down the age range, John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, has just celebrated his 56th birthday – which makes him old enough (just) to be George Osborne's dad.
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All of which proves two things: that rock music and the culture it spawned are getting on a bit; and that anyone who can convincingly call themselves young will want nothing to do with either.

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Last week the genuine article was lurking on Twitter, where people responded to his performance at the Grammys. "Wait, who is Paul McCartney?" asked one tweeter, though the reply was even better: "To be honest, I have no idea."

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wfgodot said:

"Rock and roll is here to stay, / It will never die. / It was meant to be that way / Though I don't know why." (Danny and the Juniors, 1958) I'd always sort of taken that as an article of faith. Now - not so much.

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Emma Peel said:

b/c it's an article of fact. Right?

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