Billed as 'pensioners behaving badly', Young@Heart is a New England-based chorus like no other. With an average age of 80, their renditions of songs from the likes of OutKast, The Clash and Radiohead have garnered sensational reviews all over the world.
These pensioners refuse to while away their last days in retirement homes - instead these men and women are up on stage singing their hearts out about the big taboos surrounding old age: love and sex, loss of youth, loneliness and death.
Among the stars are Stan Goldman, a 75-year-old who suffers from acute spinal problems but sings I Feel Good; 86-year-old Lenny Fontaine, an ex-WW2 pilot whose solo of Purple Haze knocks the socks off audiences despite his occasional tendency to forget the words; and 93-year-old GI Bride and Blitz survivor Eileen Hall, whose rendition of The Clash's Should I Stay Or Should I Go? always brings the house down.
It's an intimate, moving and often hilarious portrait of an extraordinary group of people who may be old in body but refuse to grow old in spirit.
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First Shown
| Date | Time | Channel |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 06 November 2006 | More 4 |
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