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‘I’m burping? At least I didn’t fart!’ Ten things I’ve learned about ageing rockers
Kevin Ayers wanted romance, Johnny Rotten worried about his dangly bits … Ageing rockers are Kate Mossman’s speciality. Here’s what she’s learned from meeting them
They became my specialist subject as a journalist: it was impossible to resist the combination of vulnerability, extreme oddness and sharp business nous I found in so many, while others were living in strangely compromised circumstances despite years of deathless hits. According to guitarist Jeff Beck, the rock star’s distinctive “egg-timer” face (sunken cheeks, faintly simian) was the result of bad 1960s dentistry and a teenage lust for sweets. Tweed read a definition of faggots from her phone in a slow, Beverly Hills voice: “A bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded, rolled or hammered together at high temperature.” “It’s a question of semantics,” said Gene.
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