elderly
adj.
old, aged, senior
n.
aged people collectively
Old Age
"Old Age" is a song recorded by the
American rock bands
Nirvana and
Hole. For years, it was known only as a Hole song, first appearing as a
B-side on their
1993 single "Beautiful Son," and again on their
1997 compilation album,
My Body, The Hand Grenade. Then, in
1998, a
tape of the song being performed by Nirvana was leaked to
the Stranger, a
Seattle, Washington weekly newspaper. The tape was recorded in March
1991, as part of a
demo for
record producer Butch Vig (who produced the band's second album,
Nevermind, later that year), and seemed to contradict the song's official standing as a
Courtney Love composition. In a Stranger article written by Kathleen Wilson following the leak of the tape, Nirvana bassist
Krist Novoselic confirmed that "Old Age" was indeed "a Nirvana song." In an interview with
UK music newspaper
Melody Maker in 1997, Love stated that "Old Age" was "something somebody had a little bit of and I said 'let me have the rest of it', and I wrote this thing in it and tried to make it goth. I found it, wrote it, and recorded it in the same night". Although, the song had been recorded a year before by Cobain, Love's lyrics were almost entirely different. Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson later clarified that the song had been given to Hole to re-write and record.
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Old age
elderly
Adjective
1. advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen"
(synonym) aged, older, senior
(similar) old
Elderly
(a.)
Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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The old man at the border lost his horse.
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