Older men, young girls: a common theme of 70s pop – but still wrong

Teenage love was at rock'n'roll's core. The stars were often not much older than female fans, and industry middlemen also tried to interpose themselves into the sexual mixBack in 1968, Mick Jagger sang, "I don't care that you're 15 years old, I don't want to see no ID," on the Rolling Stones' Stray Cat Blues, "It ain't no hangin' matter, ain't no capital crime..."Needless to say, the Stones don't perform this song in concert any more, and the last time they did, the lyric was subtly amended to "...

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