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WHEN I'M SIXTY-FOUR.(musical groups' trends)

The New Yorker

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Rock bands, like people, are living longer. U2 entered its twenty-sixth year by releasing a new album, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," in November. Adding to the band's aura of durability, a special black-and-red U2 edition of the iPod, the trendiest of accessories, was released in conjunction with the album. At the age of fifty-seven, David Bowie completed a hundred-and-twelve-date tour during 2004, survived being struck in the eye by a fan's wayward lollipop, and underwent heart surgery. And at sixty-three Bob Dylan is sometimes on the road for as many as twenty weeks a year, more than some musicians a third his age.

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