Fortunately, as far as I know, no one did actually croak - although with Charlie Watts it's hard to tell - either from excitement or passively smoking Keef's interesting looking roll-ups.

Good to know no one called for the back stage defibrillator, even if Mick allegedly needed a puff or three - of oxygen, chums - to keep him going.

So, of course, there's something vaguely comical about a geriatric multi-millionaire mincing around like a demonic wind-up monkey on Viagra. But surely one of the better things about Jagger and the Stones is they look their age. And then some.

Despite it all, I thought the trio looked seriously spooky as they posed with each other at the Emmy Awards.Did you clock Kate Jackson's eyes? I tell you, one more lift and they'll be behind her ears.

But I don't believe so. Of course, it helps if you weren't even a crayon drawing never mind an oil painting to begin with. If you've little to lose, maybe the losing of it is easier.

What bothers me is this: just when did it become a sin to look your real age?We used to venerate and value the old. Now they're expected to disappear, die, dye or go under the knife.

It's not just that we don't see anyone over 45 on TV but that there are very few programmes made for them, even though they make up the vast proportion of the viewers.

So maybe it's not surprising if women themselves - although increasingly it's infecting men too - feel they are of little worth unless they can stay eternally 21 with the requisite pert 36DDs.

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