Alice and me in the kitchen early morning with Squiggs, and the newsreader announces that David Bowie has died…..what!!! So shocked, odd as I have never felt like that about any famous person dying before; I didn’t know them and they didn’t know me. Sometime sad but never upset. This though has really upset me, in fact having spent all day listening to Radio 6 seem to find myself in tears intermittently through the day.

Bowie of course has been woven in to my knowing life, from teenager through to now. There hasn’t been week in my life when I haven’t played his music. Just seemed that he would be there forever. An immortal. They say that you should never be alive to see you children pass away, it is the same here in some ways. It makes you think of your own mortality, if Bowie can die then any one can….even me.

And my generation, the self-centred, me me me generation, are not supposed to die. We just don’t grow up so how can we pass away. Well we can’t so I will stop worrying about it….

wam bam thank you man….my hero