AND FINALLY It’s great to be rockin’ all over the world...

DO YOU ever feel tired, worried, stale, even old? Well, do something completely different!

That’s why we found ourselves last weekend at the Status Quo Fan Club Convention, at Butlin’s in Minehead, Somerset.

I’d been invited by perennial rock chick Gillie Coghlan, Facebook chum and wife of the founder drummer of Status Quo, John Coghlan.

I’d not met either of them before, but the veteran percussionist’s terrific band, John Coghlan’s Quo, was headlining on Saturday night — so, hey, let’s go to Butlin’s! Wave hands in the air, punch fists in time to that driving rhythm, and pretend it’s 1970 again.

It won’t surprise you to know that most of the crowd was my generation, though those girls head-banging next to me must have been in their early 40s.

What does it matter what age you are? In a world that can seem strange and troublesome, you shake hips and hair in front of cool musicians playing the songs you knew when you were young — so loud you feel the vibrations up through your feet — and know you’re with your tribe.

Now, I happen to fit with fans of jazz, blues, sacred music, 1960s girl groups, symphonies, reggae . . . you name it.

Sing Whatever You Want — and know live music is good for the soul.

So it did me good to be with all the grizzled geezers wearing their Quo T-shirts, yelling all the words to all the songs. Who cares if you’ve lost a lot of your hair and you’ve sized your jeans up since the good old days?

Who gives a damn if you’ve got a dodgy knee — when those banging vibes are bound to do it good?

This isn’t just nostalgia, this is a permanent ‘now’. Elvis was my first love and I saw Cliff at the Liverpool Empire on March 22, 1959 — and it felt great still to be ‘rockin’ all over the world’.

This was John Coghlan’s last gig with his band. But old rockers never retire, their music goes on with every beat of the crazy heart.

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