The world’s oldest rock band is not the Rolling Stones

It’s the Zimmers. The what? Yes, it’s true. While the combined age of the Rolling Stones’ members is only 240+, this 40 member band have a combined age of more than 3,000 years.

According to their website, they were formed earlier this year. Their average age is 78. They are not only the oldest and unlikeliest active rock band in the world i.e. performing in concerts, but are also surely one of the most celebrated, for they have recorded their debut album at none other than the Abbey Road Studios, under U2 producer Michael Hedges.

Their first single, an appropriately selected cover of The Who’s “My generation” is slated for released this 14th May (video link below). Other songs in the album would include The Prodigy’s “Firestarter”, The Beatles “When I’m (one hundred and)64″ and what else but Jermain Stewart’s “We Don’t have to take our clothes off (to have a good time)”.

Some pics of the band:

And what good is it recording at Abbey Road if you don’t take a pic like this:

Meet lead singer Alf Carretta, 90. He makes Mick Jagger look like a teenager.

Alf kicking over a drum kit:

Other prominent members of the band:
Winifred Warburton, 99, organ
Eric Whitty, 69, vocals
Tim O’Donovan, 81,
Joan Bennett, she doesn’t want to reveal her age, harmonica
Gillian (Deddie) Davies, 69, vocals
Peter Oakley, 79,
Buster Martin, 100
John & Bubbles Tree
Rob Fulford
Dennis Skillicorn (Former presenter on Radio Solent)
Grace Cook, 83, vocals

With Alf snarling “Hope I die before I get old” and kicking down a drumkit, Winifred Warburton, 99, giving it her all on the keyboards and Buster Martin, 100, flicking a middle-finger, they surely are a force to behold. And according to the Daily Mail report, they smashed up their instruments “with just as much gusto as The Who used to do in the 1960s.”