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David Chase on writing the script for Not Fade Away, about a group of boys in a band who want to ride the British invasion wave of the 1960s to stardom:

[It] was right around that time when Keith Richards fell out of that palm tree, and he was very seriously injured and I thought to myself, ‘Wow, and how old are they now? How old am I now?’ So this music that was like — I don’t know what you’d call it —the apotheosis of youth, that the people who made it were fading away, that he might not recover from that ,and that some of them were gone already. … I wanted to sort of document what those moments had been like when it was happening when we were all kids

Image: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in 1978 by Lynn Goldsmith via NPR

Are the ’60s played out? Steven Van Zandt, executive producer and musical supervisor for the new movie by Sopranos creator Chase, says no: “There’s at least five great TV series waiting to happen from the ’60s, and countless movies, still.”

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