RIP Wacko - am not especially shocked or sad but I did love his tunes until 1987
thereafter, only the tabloids sustained my interest in his increasingly surreal descent into a freako nonce
on the scale of shock celebrity deaths, it's not a Diana moment and its certainly not a John Lennon moment - but there was nevertheless still the whiff of a greek tragedy about his gradual decline and that desperate last gasp attempt to pay off the bailiffs - I wrote on this very forum about how I thought the gigs would be awful - well, we'll never know now but whatever your expectations of those were... this is a very, very sad, ignominious end for a man who made some of the greatest pop-soul-funk-disco boundary-subverting music ever recorded and for that and his performances ALONE he deserves to be remembered fondly
my condolences go to the family and to his remarkably loyal fans
....but my greatest sympathy goes to Bubbles - you poor bastard - I hope the counselling at the zoo is adequate..
RIP