“I am hard-pressed to see why there has been 24 hours of full-time lamentation over a very odd and confused man whose only claim to fame is some kid music and sexually confused styles.”
Then why post?
His music was part of many of our childhoods and young adult years.
He made great catchy songs that defined the sound of the 80s.
Are we only allowed to listen to people whose songs are either on the country music or Christian music stations?
I never objected to his music or would care one way or another what people would like. But I come from a part of a generation where thousands of young American men came home in aluminum cans to little or no notice to anyone except their grieving families.
Every single one of them were worth more that a boat-load of drug using composers of pop music.
24 frenetic hours of non-stop adulation for wone whose sole contribution to his country was nice sounds and weird styles is discordant to me - yet another proof that we have lost our way.