Elderly rock stars as moral‑panic targets

A recurring cultural move may be emerging: when a moral‑panic cycle needs fresh villains, it will expand from youth institutions (fraternities, campuses) to celebrated older cultural figures (1960s rock stars), accusing them retroactively of sexual misconduct across jurisdictions. That shift would test media economics (whether outlets will jeopardize nostalgia‑driven readership) and legal‑political limits on retroactive public shaming. — If true, it changes who is politically vulnerable and how cultural memory and consumer markets (aging subscribers, nostalgia industries) mediate accountability campaigns.