I don't think I can ever fully express what he and his music meant to me. He was a giant, every second o listening to his songs has been a moment of perfect beauty. And he was always present in my life. I can't remember the firsttime I heard his song. They were just always there, my parents loved him. Of course I didn't really understand the songs untill much later.
He was the greatest singer/song writer there was, his music could transform pain and loss into extatic beauty. It's music at it's finest, it's a sculpture of sound and life and love and pain and happiness. I can only hope he died knowing how much he and his music meant for so many people around the world.
It's rare for me to really feel for the death of someone I didn't personally know. Singers, actors etc. I may be sorry to hear about their passing, but in the end they were faces on the screen, voices in the radio. There are few who mean so much to me that impersonal distance does not exist. He was one of those few, and his death hurts so very much.
