[moovova]

“One should not speak ill of the dead, of course, especially of the recently dead, but ...”

[donna]

Bowie introduced weird sex stuff to American teens.

That’s why the elites love him.

It’s like Bill Clinton was to politics.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

It is true that I know, or knew, practically nothing of him.

OK. But a lot of us did. For a lot of us, Bowie's music was an integral part of our childhoods and our teen years, and we found that his music, unlike so many other things we liked when we were young, still held up. Hence, the widespread sadness and resulting widespread media coverage over his early passing.