Still rocking at 60+ (your favorite older artists, then and now - please add to this)

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55. His latest project was really ambitious. From Broadway World:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Chris-De-Burgh-Re-Imagines-The-Legend-Of-Robin-Hood-In-New-Album-20210920

The concept for the 27th studio album by Chris emerged from his involvement in 'Robin Hood', a stage musical about the infamous Sherwood Forest nobleman and his band of outlaws. Chris was invited to contribute storylines and melodies to the musical, which will be produced later in the year in Fulda, Germany, by Spotlight Productions, a theatrical company that has already mounted eight successful musicals.

"Since I was writing songs for this," he explains, "I thought 'Why not expand the story and put an album out, too?'"

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As has only very recently been suggested by a respected historian, Robin Hood is thought to have been a key target of King John, his son King Henry III, and their powerful justiciar (law-maker) Hubert de Burgh - who, almost incredibly, is an ancestor of Chris himself.

Given the inconsistencies concerning the dates in which Robin Hood is thought to have lived, Chris tells his version of the legend as if it were many years after Robin's death - and in the setting of a candle-lit tavern where a small audience has gathered to hear it conveyed by a StoryTeller and enacted by his musicians, actors, and singers.

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Article in The Independent about that ancestor of Chris's and the outlaw who may have inspired the legend of Robin Hood: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/robin-hood-beheaded-nottingham-robert-wetherby-b1763946.html

Btw, I found it particularly interesting that he did a concept album based on his involvement in a stage play. The same was true for the German band Die Toten Hosen -- see reply 16 above -- but in that case the concept album they did was fairly early in their career and that song became their first real hit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_kleines_bisschen_Horrorschau