Pop's performing pensioners

Today's stars now rock right past the retirement age. How do they do it? And shouldn't some of them stop?Dave Swarbrick, one-time fiddler with Fairport Convention, can laugh about his "death" now. It was 1999 and he'd been taken ill in Austria. The Daily Telegraph ran the influential folk musician's obituary. "I read it in my hospital bed," he laughs. "It was fantastic. I sold it at gigs. I still get people asking me to sign it."A decade on, the much-loved "Swarb" is still playing. In fact, he p...

Read full article Share article