The number of well-known pop and rock musicians over the age of 70 who are still performing and recording is growing. Why? It’s not for the money – they have bucket loads already – they’re still at because it’s simply what they love doing.
So why keep on doing it when they could all just put their feet up? “I get a £34 state pension, so I can’t stop,” jokes the fabulously rich Wyman. More seriously, he says that playing music “is where my heart is”. Swarb, who before a double lung transplant was performing in a wheelchair with oxygen tanks on stage, used to work as a printer, but never thought of himself as one. A fiddler, he says, is “who I am. If I stopped, I might as well chop my head off.”
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