Insert Foot is still grateful for the Rolling Stones.

All these older rockers are dying off. Jimmy Buffett, Tina Turner, Robbie Robertson, Gary Wright, Tim Bachman, Christine McVie … on and on. It happens, especially with the lifestyle that goes with being a rock star. Touring is difficult enough on the body, without the chemicals, loneliness, lack of sleep, picking up heavy TVs to throw out the hotel window, etc. Plus, people just get old and die. It’s unlikely, but it may even happen to me.

Then there’s the Rolling Stones, who were old when Ronald Reagan was president, back in the 1920s.

“Well, OK,” you say. Charlie Watts died a couple years ago. Brian Jones died. Ian Stewart died. So did Bobby Keys, Nicky Hopkins and Billy Preston. Lots of important people in the Stones’ musical orbit have died.

But not Mick, not Keith and not the fresh-faced youngster Ron Wood, who’s the bright-eyed kid of the band at 76.

Mick’s 80 (and singing about taking Viagra and going to Brazil). Keith’s about to turn 80. And they’re about to spit out their first new studio album of originals in 18 years and go on tour again.

Why?

Well … obviously they need the money and to prove themselves. Maybe they’re gearing up to run for president, now that they’re old enough. The Stones are coming. Hide your grandmother.

The Stones released new single “Angry,” this week, with the album Hackney Diamonds coming Oct. 20. The song is … OK. There’s a good guitar hook with Keith’s amazing full tone and a good vocal hook and … oh, who cares? They’re still breathing!

The video is really fun, with “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus” actress Sydney Sweeney – whose ancestors weren’t born yet when the Stones started their career back in 1854 – gyrating in leather and sticking her tongue out in a convertible rolling down Sunset Boulevard as the billboards show great Stones video moments. It was a good reminder of how amazing these guys were, and why we should thank whatever plant or animal we pray to every night that they still walk among us.

It was also an obvious career wrap, looking back at great moments including former members like Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman (who’s about to turn 87 and appears on the record) and dearly departed Charlie Watts (who appears on two songs even though he’s dead, which just goes to show how tough these guys are).

It’s the first single off their likely last studio record, and they had plenty of help from super producer Andrew Watt. So even if it’s not exactly “Paint it Black,” stand up and pay tribute to the world’s greatest rock and roll band.

The Beatles were the best all-round rock and roll band. Bruce Springsteen, KISS or Van Halen were probably the best live acts. But no band that walked this planet has been as badass as the Rolling Stones. And they’re still alive and playing, so lucky us.

And the Stones still like beautiful women in their videos who weren’t born when Richards first landed on Plymouth Rock.

I love the Rolling Stones, even if they haven’t made a really good record in more than 40 years (Voodoo Lounge was close, but that was still in the 1890s). I make fun because I’m old enough to remember the Stones being badass enough to try disco in the ’70s and do it WAY better than 99 percent of the rest of the planet; even if Billy Preston actually wrote the bass line to “Miss You.” They were smart enough to have Preston hanging around.)

I cover issues of aging in my day job; not as a retirement home janitor, as you might think. Agism is a real thing. Age discrimination wastes so much brain power and wisdom. We just decide humans turn a pre-determined age and we stick them in front of a TV running “Law & Order” reruns all day. Older people are incredible resources, and they should be celebrated and treated so much better than we … they … are. (I’m 56. Shut up.)

I know the Stones have slowed down on stage over the years, and I hope they make it through another tour; which, to be fair, hasn’t been officially announced yet. Part of me hopes they stay home. The other part hopes they go out kick ass doing stadiums.

Either way, at least three of the Rolling Stones have officially or just about made it to their 80s and are still making new music after 62 years. It’s not often during that time that has anyone said they’re a good example to humanity, but I’d say that’s exactly what they are. Keep going as long as you can, as long as you want to.

Follow music critic Tony Hicks at Twitter.com/TonyBaloney1967.