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AC/DC singer Brian Johnson said he was having much more fun as an older musician than he’d had in the past.His comments appear to be at odds with those of Mick Jagger, who recently said there was nothing good about ageing.Perhaps four years is all it takes to make the difference – Johnson is 78 while his Rolling Stones counterpart is 82. In any case, Johnson recently told USA Today that hitting the stage was more enjoyable now.“I think it’s still the unknown,” he said in the video interview. “You’re all rehearsed; you know all your parts and your bits...

Roky Erickson sat at a corner table at Curra's Grill, eating carne guisada and watching a lightning storm flash above the Austin skies. He scooped up the last of his black beans and rice, sipped his saccharin-sweetened iced tea through a clear plastic straw, then nodded at a nearby waiter. "That was real good," he said. For most people, this is mundane stuff, the routine rituals of daily life. But for Roky, an Austin rock legend who has struggled for decades with paranoid schizophrenia, these small public moments are big private victories. A little more than a year ago, Roky...