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Welcome to a whole new kind of rock and roll - awash with shiny pates, bubble perms, horn-rimmed specs and sturdy handbags.
The Zimmers are not your average band. The 40-strong group have a combined age of 3,000, a lot of attitude and are taking the world by storm.
Granted, some members might feel more at home at Mecca bingo, or doing a nice bit of crochet and fretting over a suduko, but this week they've put all that behind them and launched a bid for pop stardom with a cover version of the The Who's classic.
The plan is to storm the charts tomorrow - ideally, straight in at No. 1 and, so far, it's all looking surprisingly likely.
After all, when their video was released on the internet site YouTube last month, it attracted more than two million hits in a fortnight, along with praise from such unlikely quarters as Amy Winehouse, The Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey and even pop music's MrNasty, Simon Cowell.
Since then, they've been swamped with interview requests from media in more than 50 countries and, next week are jetting off to sunny California to appear on The Tonight With Jay Leno Show alongside George Clooney.
For Winifred, Buster and Alfie, life will never be the same again. 'The whole experience has brought me back to life,' exclaims Alfie when I meet him for tea and custard creams in his North London flat of 30 years. 'I was stuck in a rut and now I feel alive again.
'I've already had people checking me out on the street. And my little brother, Peter, 82, has a few friends from the bingo who want my autograph. I just hope any groupies can't run too fast - I'm surprisingly light on my feet for a fat man, but I'm not the swiftest'.
The Zimmers are not your average band. The 40-strong group have a combined age of 3,000, a lot of attitude and are taking the world by storm.
Granted, some members might feel more at home at Mecca bingo, or doing a nice bit of crochet and fretting over a suduko, but this week they've put all that behind them and launched a bid for pop stardom with a cover version of the The Who's classic.
The plan is to storm the charts tomorrow - ideally, straight in at No. 1 and, so far, it's all looking surprisingly likely.
After all, when their video was released on the internet site YouTube last month, it attracted more than two million hits in a fortnight, along with praise from such unlikely quarters as Amy Winehouse, The Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey and even pop music's MrNasty, Simon Cowell.
Since then, they've been swamped with interview requests from media in more than 50 countries and, next week are jetting off to sunny California to appear on The Tonight With Jay Leno Show alongside George Clooney.
For Winifred, Buster and Alfie, life will never be the same again. 'The whole experience has brought me back to life,' exclaims Alfie when I meet him for tea and custard creams in his North London flat of 30 years. 'I was stuck in a rut and now I feel alive again.
'I've already had people checking me out on the street. And my little brother, Peter, 82, has a few friends from the bingo who want my autograph. I just hope any groupies can't run too fast - I'm surprisingly light on my feet for a fat man, but I'm not the swiftest'.
• TO FIND out more about The Zimmers, visit myspace.com/ thezimmersband. For more details about Age Concern, see ageconcern.org.uk.
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