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Being a musician is not like being a bricklayer or a postman. Musicians do not retire, save for injury or ill-health.

The violinist Milstein was still performing, and performing better than anybody else in the world at that time, at the age of eighty-three. Only injury curtailed his career. The pianist Rubinstein also played to packed audiences until shortly before his ninetieth birthday.

The pianist Horszovski produced a new recording of Bach, Schumann and Chopin, to great critical acclaim, at the age of ninety-nine.

Blues/rock guitarist Robin Trower continues to perform and tour, his powers completely undiminished, yet he turned sixty-two earlier this month. Indeed BB King only recently decided to stop his world tours, at the age of eighty, for health reasons.

Funny, I was just playing his old 'Honky Chateau' album from 1972. Jeez its so good. But like Sir Paul and Stevie, everything they wrote past about 30 - 35 was shit.

Don't forget that being a musician isn't just about writing - there is also playing/singing.

After all, Sinatra never wrote any songs.

Macca still had it up til about 84, and managed to make inventive and contempory hits records.... Spies Like Us was his first stinker