The NEW 40
George W Bush will be 60 on July 6th. I am sure you will put that in your diary and celebrate in a suitable way
I started this blog when I turned 60. It was a traumatic birthday as I always think of myself as a … well … a young(ish) person.
Here is a list of others who share my age and are probably feeling as I did.
Much admired and enjoyed: - Maureen Lipman - here
People I have wanted to be … or look like:
Debbie Harry, Bianca Jagger, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Charlotte Rampling, Diane Keaton
Heroes of Rock:
Eric Clapton, Richie Blackmore (saw him at the Manchester Apollo when I was old enough to know better), John McVie, Peter Green, Robin Trower, John Paul Jones (LED Zep), Van Morrison, Pete Townsend,
Should be 60, but didn’t make it (sob):
George Best, Bob Marley, Robin Cook, Farrokh Bulsara (Hg).
Should be 60, but didn’t make it (cheers):
Harold Shipman
Won’t be sending a birthday card:
Peter Sutcliffe
Nearly my twin:
Brian Ferry - would have been pleased - until I discovered he was a fox hunting class traitor.
Politician who won’t be celebrating his 60th birthday in August as Home Secretary:
Jack Straw
3 Stewarts:
Rod (having a ‘late surge’), Al (Year of the Cat) and Eric (He’s Not in Love)
Odds and sods:
Henry Winkler (Fonz),
Sue Lyon (Peter Sellers’s Lolita),
Victoria Principal (Bobby’s Pammy from Dallas)
Davy Jones (Monkees & early Corrie)
Justin Hayward (Betty’s friend)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (just in case you think I’m not an intellectual.)
Jane Asher (got there before Linda and Heather M)
Plus: Cher, Alan Rickman, Donovan, Danny Glover, Sylvester Stallone, Dolly Parton, Joanna Lumley, Goldie Hawn.
Oh and I also discovered an actress who is just 60 with the interesting name of ‘Blair Brown’.
KAZ
posted by KAZ at 4:57 pm
8 Comments:
As, erm, Jimmie Saville tends to say, age is just a number at the end of your name (or something like that. He never normally makes much sense).
Anyway, a lot of it has to do with outlook, in which case you must be about 30 and I'm a grumpy 120!
By the way, be careful of what you say about Justin H*****, or like me you might start getting abusive e-mails from his slightly unhinged fans! You wouldn't think Moody Blues fans were like that, would you?
Ah, Bestie...
Some great - and surprising - names in there. Stallone, for God's sake!
And you might be 60, Kaz, but I doubt very much you look or act like it.
Neither does my dad, and he's got 5 years on you!
Sara: WOW to you too!
Betty: Moody Blues fans? - You mean both of them are unhinged?
I think you only pretend to be 120 years old ... in real life I bet you're a little ray of sunshine.
But I hope not!
sl:
Is your dad spoken for?
Actually, no...
...but you are! Aren't you? ;o)
Well there's the lovely Kev - but only on the rare occasions when he's sober.
Ah, looking for a fill in until the next sober episode, are you! ;o)
Hi Kaz,
I started a whole website when I turned sixty last year... it's called turningsixty.com.au. I breezed through 40 but sixty came as a bit of a shock to me too... so I've been researching 'Is 60 the new 40?'...
What do you think?
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