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NEW - Bob Dylan Is 85 and Back on the Road. So Is Everyone Else
Bob Dylan is 85 and just announced more tour dates. The Beach Boys are out with Mike Love at 85. Paul Simon is 84, Randy Bachman is 82, Rod Stewart and Eric Clapton are both 80. They are all on the road this summer, and concert ticket prices for all of them keep climbing.
Music journalist Eric Alper says the cynical read is that they need the money. The more interesting answer is psychological. For artists who have spent fifty or sixty years performing, stopping is not a logistical decision. It is an identity crisis. There is also a concept called terror management: the idea that humans build…
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