Nothing important has happened in popular music since 1979, barring the advent of Napster and Youtube, which have merely served as mediums for pre-1980 schlock. Now, let this be a lesson for you kids dumb enough to allow MTV and VH1 to spoon feed you cliched pop culture jokes until your integrity hurts; there was once a time when Keith Richards' skin was smooth, his teeth were rotten and Jerry Bruckheimer wasn't paying imitators to dress in pirate garb. There was also a time when he tag-teamed your Aunt Marie with Mick Jagger in a Holiday Inn (that was 1966.)
Here's a clip for you hep cats and infidels alike, Keith in 1974, in all of his glassy-eyed, rotten toothed, doped-up majesty(and dressed like Betty Boop)