Too Old to Rock and Roll Teenage Greg and his forty year-old Dad are left alone after the death of Greg's mother Valerie, an old friend, comes to the house often to help out, and, gradually, after a very unhappy time, things start to look a bit more cheerfu Greg likes Valerie, and he is beginning to hope that perhaps she and Dad will get togethe Dad begins to both dress and look younge and is clearly happy to have Valerie around the house, and it looks as though Greg's hopes will be realised, Then one night Dad announces that he's going to a party with some of the younger people he works with Valerie will not be going. Soon Dad is going out more often A few days later Greg talks to Dad about Valerie Dad makes it clear that Valerie is a friend and no more And soon after Dad turns up with his new girifriend ho is twenty-four and looks eighteen