Holding the Note: Writing on Music
By David Remnick
Picador £16,99
If there was ever an occupation that should be impossible to pursue into your senior years, that occupation is rock star.
And yet here they remain. Paul McCartney headlined Glastonbury last year at the age of 80. When Mick Jagger marked the same birthday recently, it was front-page news – as was the new Rolling Stones album, Hackney Diamonds.
It seems these people are as famous as
