Death of Rock 'n' Roll

well when I notice how much rock and roll from the 60s/70s/80s/90s that my 15-yr old daughter listens to I know for certain that rock and roll is very much alive! The music lives on way beyond the people...…..and the newer stuff is good too....not all of it but all music has never all been good. There has always been crappy music. Listen to Courtney Barnett and tell me rock is dead. There are so many others.

There’s whole YouTube channels devoted to nothing but the reactions of people listening to great rock for the first time. The twenty-somethings at work all prefer 70’s rock. The Stones were absolutely great rock back in the day, but have been a nightclub act on life support for several decades already. So don’t conflate the death of rock, which is alive and well, with the health of Mick Jagger, who long ago decided he'd be better off with a retirement annuity than a band.

millercarbon

The Stones were absolutely great rock back in the day, but have been a nightclub act on life support for several decades ...

The Stones can fill entire stadiums in the US, so they're hardly a "nightclub act."

Seriously? Nightclub refers to the has-beens who perform in them.

The Stones have done nightclub gigs in the past just for a lark, selling tickets for ten bucks at venues with less than 150 capacity. Seeing the Stones at a place like that is what rock and roll is all about.