'Bring It All Back'
S Club 7 are with us again! Now can anyone explain why this is a good thing... ?
Band reunions - they're all the rage, aren’t they? S Club 7, Blur, Pulp, Rage Against The Machine - any more mid-to-late 1990s and you’d have to assume Tony Blair was still in power.
You only need to look at the box office receipts to understand why musicians who out-and-out loath one another can be persuaded to let bygones be bygones - The Eagles' Hell Freezes Over Tour took its name from the event Messrs Frey, Henley, Walsh, Felder and Schmit said would have to occur before they'd share the same stage again. The things is, do we really want to see the acts of yesteryear on the road again?
On the one hand, old men playing rock 'n' roll seems to violate one of the most important things about the form, namely that it's a young man's game. "Hope I die before I get old," Roger Daltrey sang back in 1965. And he's still belting it out today even though he's pushing 80 and hard living and old age has reduced The Who from a thrusting four-piece to a two-man operation battling catastrophic hearing loss.
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