What is the retirement age for singers?

Sixty-four is the age imagined by Paul McCartney of the Beatles in 1967, on the album Lonely Hearts Club Band Sergeant Pepper, to talk of his future retirement—gardening, weeding, tinkering around the house… He is twenty-five, and so he anticipates himself at sixty-four, the age of retirement about which France has been turbulent for so many weeks. And a few months later, in the fall of 1967, Marcel Amont adapted his song into French.

In the first episode of These songs make the news This weekend, hear excerpts from:

the Beatles, When I’m sixty-four1967

Marcel Amont In forty-five years1967

Charles Aznavour, I will not say goodbye1987

jacques brel, to grow old1977

Maxime Le Forestier We’ll be old1977

jacques brel, the, the, the, 1967

montehouse, Come on Lyon1936

Leo Ferry Pensioners1964

Jan Ferrat the mountain1964

Serge Lama the retirement2023

Jovan Sears, feat. Ann Sylvester There is no retirement for artists2019

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You can also find the podcast at this link behind our voiceswith the secrets of writing and composition of eight great artists of the French scene, Laurent Volzy, Julien Clerc, Pinabar, Dominique A., Carla Bruni, Émilie Loiseau, Juliette and Gaetan Roussel.