Since the topic is aging entertainers, one guy I respected was Dave Clark, of The Dave Clark 5 (duh). Unlike most rock stars of his era, he had good business sense and retained control over his own music. He also refused to go on the “oldies” circuit. He once said something like, “We were good, and it was fun, but it was teenage music for a certain time in our lives, and I don’t want to ruin it and make a fool of myself by doing it over and over (no pun intended) until I’m 70.”
Yeah he’s a smart guy, a lot of these bands in the 60s allowed themselves to get ripped off blind. Probably the biggest rip off in music history was the Beatles catalog which was the Beatles manager Brain Epstein just being a complete idiot. I mean imagine, the guy makes a deal with this guy Dick James that all the songs the Beatles write James OWNS in exchange for publishing the songs and paying the Beatles a mere pittance. The guy formed a huge company out of those songs called Northern songs and then he sold it for a fortune without even telling them. That’s just incredible to me. To this day none of the remaining Beatles own any of that music. McCartney had a chance to buy it back in the 80s but being the cheap bastard he is he hesitated and the worlds most blatant pedophile Michael Jackson bought it from under his nose, but the current estimate is the rights to those songs alone make around $40 - 50 million a year.
(Dave Clark):“We were good, and it was fun, but it was teenage music for a certain time in our lives, and I don’t want to ruin it and make a fool of myself by doing it over and over (no pun intended) until I’m 70.”
That’s what Mick Jagger said up into the 1980s and why John and Paul broke up the Beatles before they turned 30. Paul is STILL singing those songs.
Hey Steve, if you are interested, tonight they are having a documentary on DC5...
https://tv.yahoo.com/news/pbs-glad-over-celebrates-dave-clark-five-120021647.html