15 November,2010 08:40 AM IST | | Agencies
Giving a whole new meaning to Lady Gaga, a British granny is proving you're never too old to get down, rocking top clubs on both sides of the Atlantic as a DJ at the grand old age of 69.
Ruth Flowers, aka Mamy Rock, is a politely-spoken grandmother from Bristol who has just taken Los Angeles clubland by storm after moving across from Europe. "I love people, I think that's what carries me through.
I love the young ones too, because they get such a bad press often. And I haven't found them to be anything but wonderful," she said.
Forget the cliches of retirement homes, afternoons in front of the TV and knitting, Flowers seems to have more energy than most of the 20-somethings dancing to her pumping rhythms.
"I am still awake when the younger people around me are sleepy. I don't have a problem with night work," she says. "It doesn't seem so strange for me because I've always been a little bit different.
I have good health. I am fortunate with my health. If I had many of the complaints of other older people, I couldn't do it."
She came to California to record her new single, 69, and to make her US debut at an electro festival in Anaheim, south of Los Angeles.
The gig in front of 3,000 young clubbers went so well that she has been invited to DJ in New York on November 29, before heading for China and Japan at the end of the year.
