Making sense of the stats surrounding Prince's death

NOT another one. If you’re still trying to comprehend the idea that David Bowie was not, in fact, a star man made of star dust, but encased in a biodegradable meat sack like the rest of us, then the news of Prince will have felt like a great big purple slap, writes Suzanne Harrington. 

Whaaaaaaat? Him too? Already?

The cull of 2016 began in late 2015 with Lemmy, and has been fairly relentless in its scything down of those we adored, and of those whom we were quite fond. Lemmy, Bowie, Alan Rickman, Terry Wogan, Victoria Wood, and now Prince. Seriously. Prince and Bowie both dead. As someone plaintively howled on Twitter, “2016, stop killing my childhood!”