Aging disgracefully

Keith Richards, you are not alone

Tom Jones and Barry Manilow, you’ve got new albums out. Tina Turner, you’re putting on the short skirts and hitting the road again. Jimmy Page, you want to revive Led Zeppelin, with or without Robert Plant. But let’s face it. For a bunch of high-flying entertainers, you guys don’t look so good.

Sure, it’s not fair; age is seldom kind to anyone. And it’s never nice to make fun of your elders. But then again, whose grandfather still tries to squeeze into patent leather pants? Oldies acts, this hubris has got to stop. Here are 10 singers and musicians who are challenging Keith Richards for the dubious honor of Freakiest Looking Old Rock Star.—Drew Tewksbury, Special to Metromix