pop songs negative about ageing

The Travelling Wilburys, My Back Pages Is positive, with the chorus
'I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now'!

Thank you for the link jings - I've just given it a play - lovely ❤️

"Hope I die before I get old." They didn't. Not all of them.

Going off thread a bit, I annoy my friends and family by frequently saying 'I want that at my funeral'. Big groan and my DD threatens to edit the list of both pop and classical music that I have requested.

However I would like to come in feet first to Abba 'Dancing Queen', go out to their 'Thank You For The Music' and 'Hey Jude' and 'American Pie' somewhere in between. Plus lots of classical favourites.

One late friend's wife chose at his funeral their first record they had bought together when they were 16. It was Cliff Richard The Young Ones. When it got to the bit 'darling one day we'll teach the young ones of our own' we were all in bits - especially their three daughters.

Forget Desert Island Discs - eight is just not enough! But I did particularly enjoy Theresa May and Hugh Bonneville on that programme.

Anyone else have firm ideas for 'funeral music'? Some of my friends think I am odd enjoying thinking about this! Another friend said there was so much music they would all have to bring sandwiches and thermos flasks to my funeral.

Stansgran Yeats was 26 when he wrote the poem. It was written for Maud Gonne who he loved but who regarded him as just a friend. It is sad, but so many of his poems are- I love "An Irish airman forsees his own Death"

Tbf all these singers only sang what we all thought when we were young. I think we probably all presumed it wouldn't be much fun getting old and back in the day we probably would have agreed with them! Nowadays 60 is classed as middle aged and not particularly old, thank goodness.

They have been laying Beatles songs all morning - I loved knowing all the words. Fantastic poems.

I haven't noticed songs about getting old really but then I don't really listen to pop music - rock and heavy metal is my bag. 'Growing old disgracefully' that's me

So beautiful, but it's got to have come straight from the Yeates poem.

Me too jinglbellsfrocks - I saw GP in concert in Leicester a while ago and she sang this song - not a dry eye in the house ?

I bet The Who feel a bit daft for having sung "I hope I did before I get old" in My Generation!

Actually you are right jogginggirl

I love it!

No. I'm pretty sure that (somebody) McDonnell sings it (Irish bloke)

jinglbellsfrocks - are you thinking of Martina McBride or Gretchen Peters....? ??

But thankfully (?) we live a lot longer now so don't become decrepit so quickly.
What about this one -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfQjcbQpq-0
Only been married 40 years? You've got a long way to go.

'Memory' from 'Cats' sums it up for me

Me too. And Going Back is tinged with sadness, I agree.

Oh! Love Going Back! Loved Dusty.

There's a song (plagiarised?!) from that poem, isn't there? "When you are old and full of sleep, And death no longer makes you weep"

Can't think who sings it. Makes me go a bit tearful when I hear it.

I think When I'm Sixty-Four is a rather sweet, affectionate little song. I suppose it does stereotype older people but I'm not sure it's worth getting het up about.

One of the "positive" songs mentioned "Going Back" by Dusty Springfield is a beautiful, thoughtful song, but I also think it has a rather sad edge to it.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

Sad but beautiful and I don't know how old he was when he wrote it.

The travelling Wilburys recorded that song. With the sainted Roy Orbison.

I bet it was grumppa

That's the one Teetime ....I keep forgetting names and things lately. Very worrying.

Mind you, predictive text suggesting virile for vieille was quite interesting!