It is more than forty years since Jethro Tull recorded “Too old to Rock and roll, too young to die.” The song tells of an old rocker who feels the world he had known has gone, that time has passed him by, that the music and the culture he loved has become an anachronism. He gets onto his motorcycle and rides into Scotch Corner on the A1 at one hundred and twenty miles per hour. The resulting tangle of bent metal, broken bones and torn flesh is his attempt to …