Peter Noone talks music, life and health at 65

Gabbing on the phone for more than an hour, the once and forever Herman's Hermits frontman touches on everything from his love of John Lennon ("he was a funny guy") to his good genes and great health ("but I don't go to the doctors, because they might find something wrong with me") to his unending annoyance with cellphone users.

The world has gone all weird, like, people are constantly, -always with that invisible third person.

[...] folks whose arms flop into his seat on airplanes, encroaching his space.

"Show business is loaded up with all these ridiculous people who think we don't know that they just had a couple of chins taken away," says Noone, 65.

Noone and his garrulous good cheer will breeze into the Capital Region this Saturday, when the "60s Spectacular" with a line-up of vintage acts plays Proctors.

Besides Noone and his band, the bill also includes the Happenings ("See You in September"), Jay and the Americans ("This Magic Moment") and Mary Wilson of the Supremes ("Baby Love"),

With his wavy blonde hair and chirpy sense of fun, he wooed the radio masses without worrying what anyone else thought.

The first ten people in line are in wheelchairs....Do you know how unlucky it is to even sit in a wheelchair?

Every now and then, Noone's iPhone rings — emitting the sci-fi tone that sounds like a whining Theremin.

(No, he doesn't answer it.) He has different ringtones for different friends, and different pictures for different friends, and he likes to mix them up — putting the wrong face on the right ringtone.

[...] you know, little things amuse me, and I wade in the really shallow pool of intellect, he says.

Wherever he goes, he peppers his shows with local patter and wings it with the set list, shouting out titles from the group's memorized store of about 300 tunes.

Besides those Herman's Hermits...