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Baby boomers and Generation X-ers, take note: mindful drinking is not the only solution to mindless drinking

I heard some gossip recently about a sixtysomething Madonna-era DJ who had to be sectioned by his PR last summer at a music festival because he’d taken so many drugs. Also whooping it up at that festival was a former pop star “completely off his nana” on booze. Which may sound funny, but his friends were seriously worried because it keeps happening and it’s not pretty.

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Emma Thompson once told me of the importance of going bananas every once in a while

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