Music Report: The Enduring Power Of Classic Rock
"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?" The answer is obviously a resounding "Yes". Should we book Classic Rock for our events? Tickets for the October Classic Rock Extravaganza in Coachella - the Desert Trip Festival - go on sale this morning. The event is touted globally as the biggest Classic Rock weekend of a lifetime and is expected to sell out the rumored available 70,000 tickets immediately. This may come as a surprise to many of us. We have become accustomed to living in a youth obsessed culture. Chart topping acts start their career ascent long before they can legally order a beer in the USA. It is the age of streaming music and social media self promotion. Surprisingly, it seems, the oldies but goodies continue to succeed without much attention to their social media followers. Mick Jagger has a million and a half followers on Twitter. Not bad, you think, until you see Taylor Swift. She has almost 77 million ...