Turn 70. Act Your Grandchild’s Age. - NYTimes.com

Turn 70. Act Your Grandchild’s Age.

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Ringo Starr celebrated his 70th birthday last week by playing at Radio City Music Hall and saying his new hero is B. B. King, still jamming in his 80s.

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Joining Mr. Starr in his 70s next year will be the still-performing Bob Dylan (“May you stay forever young”) and Paul Simon (“How terribly strange to be 70”). Following soon after will be Roger Daltrey (“Hope I die before I get old”) and Mick Jagger, who is reported to have said, several grandchildren ago, “I’d Turn 70. Act Your Grandchild’s Age. - NYTimes.com