These guys are older now than ancient figures from the 1920s were when they started — a lot older than the “older generation” of their day. But at least they weren’t the ones who sang “I hope I die before I get old.” Those guys are still around, too.
Well, actually 50% of the original "Who" members died a decade or two ago.
In 2012, some of the Stones’ last great records from the early 1970s, like “Brown Sugar” or “Tumbling Dice,” are over 40.
As we leave the 20th century further and further behind those distinctions, which once seemed so definitive, seem to matter less and less.