Cancer scores a hat trick on creative men
Come on, cancer, couldn’t you have picked a few we wouldn’t miss? Donald Trump is 69. And Rupert Murdoch is eighty bloody four.
All across the cultural landscape, we are mourning David Bowie above all others. Lemmy might have had 280,000 Motorhead fans watching his memorial service live-streamed on YouTube (I was one of them, convalescing at home after my own bout of anti-cancer surgery), but it was Bowie’s death that rocked us. A librarian friend made an elaborate shrine to him in her local library. Brixton had a spontaneous street party in his honour, the local cinema honouring ‘Our Brixton Boy, RIP’. Thousands of flowers and candles created a sudden vivid memorial outside his apartment building in New York.
