Should Musicians get Early Retirement?

If the retirement goes up in Britain, there will be an awful lot of unhappy musicians. “Just imagine a 70-year-old footballer! Nobody expects sportsmen to go on and on. But that’s what we have to do night after night, to international standards, having our work picked over in the press, while we struggle against tendonitis. We’re athletes, too, but there’s no way our careers can be cut short unless we get injured.”