Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen.
What is it about 17 years old?
“My son turned 10 just the other day…”
Harry Chapin - Cat’s in the Cradle
*Son, I’m thirty
I only went with your mother 'cause she’s dirty
*
Kinky Afro - Shaun Ryder in his pomp.
BTW - how about albums with a specific age in them? Adele has rather cornered the market.
j
4 Non Blondes “What’s Up”:
*Twenty-five years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination *
Rolling Stones “Stray Cat Blues”:
I can see that you’re fifteen years old
No I don’t want your I.D.
Fun fact about that song – the title comes from a conversation which Nicks had with Tom Petty’s first wife, Jane. Jane had said that she had met Tom “at the age of seventeen;” Nicks misheard her (apparently because of Jane’s southern accent) as saying “at the edge of seventeen.”
Cher’s Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
I was sixteen, he was twenty-one
Rode with us to Memphis
Papa would’ve shot him if he knew what he’d done
The Tragically Hip, “38 Years Old”
“18 and Life,” Skid Row.
18 and life you got it,
18 and life to go…
Simon and Garfunkel, Old Friends from the Bookends album: “…how terribly strange to be 70.”
“7 Years” by Lukas Graham mentions:
7 years old
11 years old
20 years old
30 years old
60 years old
… and that the singer’s father “got sixty-one [years]”.
The Jayhawks’ “Big Star” starts with:
I’m flat-busted
Wild-eyed and free
I couldn’t get arrested if I tried
A has-been at a mere thirty-five
Which also mentions the ages of 21 and 35.
Harry Belafonte’s Man Piaba
Winger: “Seventeen”
Marillion: “Torch Song”
“…When you’re hidin’ 29 and you know it ain’t a crime to burn a little brighter now”
Paul Simon, Graceland
“My traveling companion is nine years old
He is the child of my first marriage”
“When I was seventeen, I had some very good beer…”
-Homer Simpson
^ Hey, you’re not Brian McGee!
“Who Do You Love?” by everybody and his sister
"I’m 22, I don’t mind dyin’/ Who do you love?’
“She’s 19 Years Old” Muddy Waters on * Live in Mississippi*
In Vietnam he was 19.
Smacks forehead
Of course, Dammit!
Last time I saw Marie, she was waving me goodbye
With hurry-home drops on her cheek that trickled from her eye
Marie is only 6 years old, information, please
Try to put me through to her in Memphis, Tennessee
Now that’s worth including just for
…hurry-home drops on her cheek…
Just beautiful. Bless you, Chuck Berry.
Link. It’s the decent thing to do.
j
Richard Thompson’s 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
I fought with the law since I was 17
I’m 21 years and might make 22.