Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan? That's the sound of ageing | John Harris

Rock may be uncool, but it's not dead – as long as it accepts its new status as the music of the ageingOn 18 June this year, Paul McCartney will turn 70. "There's a little cell in my brain that's never going to believe that," he says in the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine, though there are signs of the burdens of old age starting to arrive. Certainly, he has finally quit smoking what some still call jazz tobacco, apparently because of the demands of raising his eight-year-old daughter. "Your sense of responsibility does kick in, if you're lucky, at some point," he reckons.The avowedly clean-living Ringo Starr will soon be 72. Bob Dylan is 71. Further down the age range, John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, has just celebrated his 56th birthday – which makes him old enough (just) to be George Osborne's dad. Even the Britpop generation is...

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