Everyone's a culture critic. Lol
Not aging well, indeed!

I remember not being allowed to watch them on TV, while everyone at school was talking about it. My mom came around over the next 10 years, and I remember her saying the Beatles were actually musical geniuses. I think anything "new" takes a while for some folks to accept or embrace.

Rock and Roll died in 1958? I didn't get the memo.

Every single generation has the same sort of people who all sound just like the guy who wrote this article.

"Kids these day and their danged music!" Followed by teeth gnashing and fist waving.

Don't be this guy. He was obviously an a-hole. You're free to enjoy whatever music you like. But don't piss all over something that other people like just because it differs from your own opinions.

As I ordered my fiftieth-anniversary edition of the Stones' Sticky Fingers album last year, I recalled the ongoing "straight" cultural narrative of the Sixties and Seventies, that rock wouldn't endure culturally. The hell it didn't!

When you step in it, sometimes you really step in it!