# Kate Mossman has strong feelings about rock stars past their prime

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Podcast: [Word In Your Ear](https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187)
Published: 2026-06-16T17:31:27+00:00
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## Resource

Kate’s an old pal of ours from Word magazine who writes scintillating columns and profiles for the New Statesman and Observer. We loved her book ‘Men Of A Certain Age: My Encounters With Rock Royalty’ – just out in paperback! – where she relives her meetings with a variety of legends, eccentrics and old lags whose music she finds particularly compelling and wonders what they all have in common. This typically funny and colourful conversation stops off at …   … the attractive fallibility of rock stars past their peak   … a lifetime’s devotion to Paul Simon   … “Olivia Dean is the Carole King of her generation”   … the ridiculous expectations we heap on musicians’ creativity   … why Arts Criticism is under threat   … when the first record you buy (aged five) is the Chicken Song   … “One-Hit Wonders have achieved infinitely more than most of us”   … Ray Davies and his “eternal sense of apartness”   … why George Michael is under-appreciated and the time he found someone living under his floorboards   … the days when Jeff Beck modelled PVC jackets for Rave  … the genius of Pat Metheny’s Orchestrion   … and the new acts who’ll still be huge in ten years’ time.   Order copies of ‘Men Of A Certain Age’ here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Men-Certain-Age-Encounters-Royalty/dp/1788705645 Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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