Kate Mossman has strong feelings about rock stars past their prime

E925 - Kate Mossman has strong feelings about rock stars past their prime

Published: June 16, 2026

Duration: 48:57

Kate’s an old pal of ours from Word magazine who writes scintillating columns and profiles for the New Statesman and Observer. We loved her book ‘Men Of A Certain Age: My Encounters With Rock Royalty’ – just out in paperback! – where she relives her meetings with a variety of legends, eccentrics and old lags whose music she finds particularly compelling and wonders what they all have in common. This typically funny and colourful conversation stops off at …

 

… the attractive fallibility of rock stars past their peak

 

… a lifetime’s devotion to Paul Simon

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