![]() In February, 67-year-old former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon competed to represent Ireland in the Eurovision song contest with his hit, Hawaii, a love letter to his wife of 44 years, Nora Forster, who was living with Alzheimer’s disease (sadly she died on 6 April). “In some respects, punk was a licence for the middle classes to rebel, and that sense of rebellion continues in our later years.” “Being part of the punk generation affected how I think and it’s probably why I still have a problem with being told what to do – and it’s why I swear so much,” Eclair, 63, says. It explores what being 60 means for today’s 1960s-born “babes”. ![]() ![]() Some are railing against working the wageless “granny shift”, plugging the social and childcare gaps as sandwich carers some are packing up their homes and taking to the road as later-life nomads others are seeking, after the boot up the arse of the pandemic, to (in the new parlance) “self-actualise” as butterfly later-life creatives emerging from their chrysallises after decades of toeing the 9-to-5 line.Ĭomedian Jenny Eclair’s standup show Sixty Plus! (FFS!) XXL Show! tours across the UK from 2 September. ‘It wasn’t all sitting in doorways drinking lager with a dog on a string’: Mark Jordan. ![]()
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