So it’s come to this: surgery, deferred annuities and rock ’n’ roll.

The Rolling Stones, the bad boys of rock in the 1960s and ’70s, are showing their age. In April, the band postponed the start of its North American tour so that Mick Jagger could have surgery, reportedly to replace a damaged heart valve. Now, he is prancing onstage again, and the band’s three-month tour is off to a rollicking start.

I’d like to believe that the Stones are as ageless as Peter Pan. But it turns out that the band chose, as its sole tour sponsor, the Alliance for Lifetime Income — a trade association that promotes the sale of annuities. Yet preparing for retirement isn’t what “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” is all about.

Perhaps none of this should be surprising. The Stones started performing in the summer of 1962, and all four current members are over 70. They are not really immortal, and neither am I (or so I’m told).

And yet, as a Stones fan since the 1960s, I never expected to see this phrase: “You can get what you need, when you have an annuity.”