Watching Scorsese's recent movie Shine a Light on the Rolling Stones, I couldn't help feeling that I was witnessing the final act of the "baby boomers" - the generation born between the end of the Second World War and 1960. I remember playing in a band at the same gig as the Rolling Stones in the summer of 1964. It was a college ball at Oxford. Mick pouted at the audience.
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