Mick Jagger says that since drummer Charlie Watts is now dead, The Rolling Stones may be pushing their luck.
Ozzy has retired due to, essentially, old age and the problems that come with that. Elton John is hanging on, though he’s left the stage many times, but you just can’t keep a good showman down. Bonnie Raitt just won a Grammy – to her own and everyone else’s surprise, as the crowd looks around and asks, “Who’s Bonnie Raitt?”
How long until Mick and Keith and the other one join the choir invisible? In their 70s? Pushing, pushing … one must eventually retire with one’s wall of gold and platinum records rising high over one’s prone, pale corpse.
Mick has taken a page from the book of Walt Disney, but he’s better than Walt so he wants something cooler.
Scientists and Lucas Film (but NOT Disney!) are hard at work at making being frozen in carbonite a real thing.
Mick Jagger as Han Solo? Yeah, that’s way cooler than anything Walt could come up with. If you’ve got the money, honey, you can be preserved for all time in carbonite.
So what’s Sir Mick doing now? He’s trying to perfect his pose for that last second when he’s frozen. Once you’ve struck a pose, you can’t be let out – ‘cuz you’re dead. So Mick is puckering those lips and flailing those hands to turn himself into a monument that future generations can rock and roll to as they dance around the Jagger carbonite maypole.
The carbonite statue will, of course, be painted black.
