I just got to watch a video taken on June 9 for the first UK show of the Rolling Stones 60th anniversary tour in Liverpool. That gig was dedicated to their late drummer Charlie Watts. The band, made up of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, were joiined by Steve Jordan on drums.
Before performing The Beatles' "I Wanna Be Your Man", something of a rarity, the 78 old Jagger said "But, we decided instead to do a cover of a song written by some other local lads so we're doing this especially for you Liverpool, OK?"
In watching the decrepit-looking but engertic singer, I couldn’t help but compare him to Joe Biden, 6 month his elder, and who has the audacity to run precariously when he ought to take his time and walk.
I know he’s unfairly treated by the media, but all septuagenarian aren’t created equal and that the British singer is the exception rather than the rule, even though I believe that, for Mick Jagger, too it would now be ample time to call it a day and go into retirement.
Whatever we do in life, seventy years old should be the cut-off date for compulsory retirement age. Whether one is Pope Francis, Trump, Biden or Jagger. No buts and no ifs, period.
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