Rock on, Grandpa!

These gyrating geriatrics travel around the world belting out rock classics and garnering rave reviews

A little more than a year ago, Eileen Hall was riding in the passenger seat of a car when it skidded on black ice and smashed into a pole in Chicopee, Mass. "The doctors said I wouldn't survive," says Hall. "'After all, she's 90,' they told my family." To which her son replied, "Well, not many 90-year-olds just came back from performing in Europe." Less than a year later, Hall was back on the road appearing in the concert halls of Belgium and the Netherlands with the Young@Heart Chorus, a 21-member Northampton, Mass., group in their 70s, 80s and 90s that...

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