Cheesy old singers...

[CuppaTeaJanice]

Why do so many women find cheesy old male singers so appealing when they are well into middle age, to the extent that they turn into lovestruck teenagers - screaming, swooning, touching themselves intimately at gigs (I've seen this ). There doesn't seem to be much difference in behaviour between Justin Bieber's young fans and the gaggle of fifty-something office workers who gather outside the ITV studios every time Rod Stewart, for example, is appearing on 'This Morning'!

Some I can understand - David Essex, Donny Osmond, David Cassidy are still reasonably attractive, but Tom Jones, Rod Stewart and the sparrow-legged Barry Manilow were never what could be considered as eye-candy, even in their heyday.

Is it all about nostalgia and returning to carefree youth, even if just for a few hours?

AIBU to wonder how a leathery old crooner can turn large numbers of otherwise sensible middle aged women into shrieking, flapping schoolgirls?

My mum is devoted to Neil Diamond, she doesn't even use his last name when she speaks about him. She is nearly 70 so it's OK.
I think YABU regarding Mr Jones, I am just wondering whether I should bother trying to book tickets to his festival do in the summer.
Rod Stewart is someone I could do some serious knob damage too. I am nearly 47 though so could hardly be described as young.

Ah... nostalgia. It ain't what it used to be.... :) Mind you, if you thought Barry Manilow was sex on legs thirty years ago, you're probably similarly deluded today. I remember going to a Frank Sinatra concert in Dublin in '87 and was amazed to be surrounded by rather weepy, overcome old dears who drank gin out of thermos flasks and drowned out Frank as they sang along with warbly voices.

Let the oldsters have their pashes. I shall hold my lighter aloft now in tribute.... You... you light up my life... (all together now) ... you give me ho-hooope.... to-hoooo carry oh-oh-oh-oonnnnn...

BTW... was (still is) sex on legs. Cue the clip to about 1m 25s....

Sorry, I'd have to disagree chil, I don't think he is sex on legs, that title belongs to Adrian Chiles, he is attractive and much better since he stopped dying his hair. We saw him in Dubai about 10 years ago. He was fab.

DP's sister is obsessed with Cliff Richard.

I find it deeply disturbing.

Is it acceptable for me to want to stroke Noel Gallager's eyebrows lovingly - or is he also too old and wrinkly now?

Ok I'll admit that Mr Jones can move in a 'give people black eyes on the dancefloor' kind of way, but he still has the face and hair of middle management in an accountancy firm, and I don't think I could get past that even if he was spreadeagled on my bed wearing a silk thong with a rose between his teeth!

I won't hear a word against Tom or his hair. Then I'm mystified by this whole 'Brian Cox is a bit of a looker' thing.... surely he's just a nasally-voiced geek with girly hair?

Chil, you are right about Prof Cox, ooops your SiL is odd and not in a good way. Same goes for you and monobrow.

Do you think they look up at the permatanned, leather-faced scrawny singer on stage in the spotlight, but what they actually see is a fit, sexy 21 year old sex beast from the 1970s?

A bit like body dismorphia, but with someone else's body.

kreecher - but Noel and I are soulmates - meant to be together.

I am his Wonderwall and he is my Rock and Roll Star. I say Hello and he says let's Slide Away and Live Forever in Columbia in a Champagne Supernova in the Sky where we can be Supersonic. We won't Look Back in Anger or waste time with Cigarettes and Alcohol. Our Masterplan will be to Let There Be Love. Some Might Say Don't Believe the Truth but we say What's the Story Morning Glory?, we're Standing on the Shoulders of Giants and understand The Importance of being Idle, so Don't Go Away, Stand by Me, D'you know What I Mean?. We don't need Lyla or any subliminal Aquiecence. We'll never be Half a World Away - it's all Definitely Maybe for us.

But don't you look at Noel and see......well.....that puppet from Thunderbirds?

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No, CuppaTeaJanice - I see the future.

Thunderbirds? I'll yank his strings anyday.

I think it's because back then men were MEN

CuppaTeaJanice pmsl That is sooo funny!

Barry is a fine specimen of a man!!

Oh deary deary me. Unfortunately I remember 'The Beatles' days. But I wish Paul McCartney would stay at home these days. And Cliff...... someone needs treatment. There's something about Tom though, but decorum must be upheld at all times, get a grip I say.

Ageing groups? Now that's a whole other scary concept! Do people still throw underwear at The Rolling Stones?

Do people still wear underwear?

its the crowds at a daniel o'donnell concert that baffles me!

I'll add another. We were in Paris last week and saw a poster for Johnny Haliday. DH said he thought he'd died, I said he looked as if he had enjoyed a lot of work on his face. DD just looked bemused.
apparently he is a sex god and he is 67.

Tom Jones was actually quite dishy with his old nose. He does look terrible now though. If you want 70s sex god though, look up Teddy Pendergrass on Youtube (the singer on who Lenny Henry's Theophilus P. Wildebeest is based). Mad.

Johnny Haliday! I saw him in France 30 years ago (I was in my pram) and he looked ancient then. Surely it cant be the same man?

i don't get most of the,cliff Richards,Daniel odonel etc but don't blame my mum for her David bowie fascination,hes quite lovely

I've just noticed there's a Mumsnet competition to win Barry Manilow tickets! Maybe RustyRainbow should enter!!!!