Song 579 ( Jethro Tull - Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll, Too Young To Die )

I figured that this would be an excellent addition to my vehicle crash song theme week. This is the climax song in the pseudo rock opera that the album consists of. The songs on the album were supposed to be part of a musical sung by Adam Faith; they were written by Ian Anderson and David Palmer. After it did not come to fruition and was scrapped, Ian Anderson then decided to go ahead and make the already-written music into the next 'Tull album.
In this one the main character, Ray Lomas is a '50s-'60s Rocker/Greaser that refuses to change his image or his lifestyle with the times and finds himself as a relic. All of his friends have "sold their souls" and moved on with their lives and have families and respectable jobs, which makes him quite despondent. He ends up going on a wild bike ride down the A1 Motorway and ends up crashing. This song has a happy ending, however. After he wakes up in the hospital he finds out that his fashion has come back into style and is popular again with his musical career revived.

Here is a recording of the song on YouTube.
Here is a music video with an alternate version of the song on YouTube.
Here is the music video of the song from the Slipstream DVD with all of the visual silliness therein on YouTube.
Here is a classic live performance on YouTube.

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