I think the emotional reaction to her death was one of the the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever witnessed. I knew people who were crying for days...as if their own mother had died. Male and female. For what? For someone none of them knew personally and who probably wouldn’t have deigned to acknowledge their presence had they run into her.
It did give us a great quote, when Keith Richards said of Elton John, “His writing is limited to songs for dead blondes.”
I recall going in to work and hearing all of the young’ish women all upset by this. I am neither young’ish or a woman...
I think I pissed some folks off when I asked, sincerely, why this mattered to anyone but her family?