Two theater references in this short London Times editorial regarding AC/DC’s full-band endorsement of a line of Warburton Estate wines. Vintages include Highway to Hell Cabernet Sauvignon.
AC/DC are merely following a path trodden by other one-time hellraisers. A journey from consuming substances so toxic they make lab rats go blind to marketing your own merlot is rock’n’roll’s version of Mrs. Patrick Campbell’s journey from the hurly-burly of the chaise longue to the deep deep peace of the marital double bed…
In rock’s rendering of the seven ages of Man, AC/DC have progressed from the first (“mewling and puking” after a night of hedonistic excess) to the sixth (“lean and sliuppered pantaloon,” sipping a Sancerre). All that now awaits the band is Shakespeare’s seventh age: that’s the one “sans teeth.”
—Grapes of Rock, op-ed, Wednesday, Aug. 17, Times.
My question now, is what are we supposed to do with these old AC/DC pint glasses?
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