I’m an ageing, male Swiftie

Over five decades, I have been lucky enough to witness some of the great rock concerts of our time. Bob Dylan at Blackbushe in the late 1970s, The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert at the Albert Hall in the early 1980s, The Rolling Stones at New York’s Shea Stadium in the 1990s and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in Paris a few years after that. 

There are many others but those are the first to light up my memory bank. Now add Taylor Swift’s Eras concerts at Wembley stadium to that list. Three nights last weekend and another five nights to come in August, this is one of the great events in modern popular music. The sheer theatrical grandeur, the dramatic staging, the superb music and dance performances and, most of all, the emotional buy-in of 88,000 people, almost entirely women, in a stadium that pulsated with light and sound for three and a half hours, made it a sensational night.