65 over 65. 65 famous people who turn 65 this year

I was recently castigated for saying that ‘If you’re old enough to remember the sixties, the chances are that you’re at least sixty.’

Of course, it’s true that people in their forties and above also remember the sixties. But to have been at the cutting edge of the sixties pop culture of fashion, music and sexual revolution, there’s a good chance that you were at least 16 in 1967 - making you at least 60 this year.

And if you were at the leadership end of that culture, you will almost certainly be older than that.

Even so, I was still more than a little surprised to find that all of the following were born in 1946 – the first year of the post-war ‘baby boom’ - and will therefore celebrate their 65th birthday this year.

I never thought that so many of my heroes, role-models and (dare I say it) pin-ups would be so old. See if a shiver runs down your spine too!

 John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin, more recently ‘Them Crooked Vultures’ and also currently performing at Covent Garden in ‘Anna Nicole)

 Jane Asher
 Julian Barnes
 Marianne Faithful
 Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
 Timothy Dalton (Bond)
 Ray Dorset (long side-burned Mungo Jerry frontman)
 Alan Bleasdale
 Sue Townsend
 Hayley Mills
 Tim Curry (of the Rocky Horror Show)
 Lesley Joseph
 Donovan
 Graham Gouldman (10cc)
 Dave Mason (Traffic)
 Paul Smith (fashion)
 Robert Fripp (King Crimson)
 Lewis Collins (Professionals)
 Noddy Holder
 Maurice Saatchi
 Sue Lawley
 Diane Keaton
 Billy Bonds
 Tony Robinson
 Alison Steadman
 Barry Gibb (BeeGees)
 Dee Dee Wilde (Pans People)
 Felicity Kendall
 Chris Tarrant
 Justin Hayward (Moody Blues)
 Benny Andersson (ABBA)
 Steven Spielberg
 Vikki Hodge (model)
 Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac)
 Jane Birkin (je t’aime)
 Peter Lorimer (Leeds)
 Joanna Lumley
 Roy Wood (Wizzard)
 Lesley Judd (Blue Peter)
 Janet Street-Porter
 Brian Patten (Liverpool poet)
 Robby Krieger (the Doors)
 Tyne Daly (Cagney & Lacy)
 Dolly Parton
 Liza Minelli
 Cher Candice Bergen
 Donald Trump
 George W Bush
 Linda Rondstadt
 Bill Clinton
 Danny Glover
 Jimmy Webb
 Susan Sarandon
 Richard Carpenter (the Carpenters)
 Uri Geller
 Patti Smith
 Mirielle Mathieu
 Ilie Nastase (tennis)
 Debbie Moore (Pineapple)
 Sylvester Stallone
 Tommy Lee Jones
 Ian Lavender (of ‘stupid boy’ fame)
 Alan Rickman
 Elkie Brooks

Thank you to Saga magazine for this information.

The point of publishing this is to remind you of two things. First, that the UK population is ageing; and second, that so-called 'older people' do not confirm to stereotype or prejudice.

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