Bowie grief fest was totally Aladdin Sane

Celebrities wallowing in hyperbole should get real. The songs were great but he didn’t liberate gay people or change the world

This is not the Bowie backlash. It’s really not. I wouldn’t dare. The last thing I need on a Saturday morning is a load of weeping celebrities in leotards and tear-stained make-up throwing platform boots and space helmets at my house.

And anyway I like David Bowie’s music. I had six or seven of his records on vinyl as a kid, including a couple of the “difficult” ones and a double album of the bonkers juvenilia (The Laughing Gnome holds up, I swear). And I bought Hunky Dory and the first Ziggy album again when I went over to CDs (nobody buys Station To Station twice). I even downloaded the odd Bowie song after my collection went digital, although I was 40 by then