Curious fellow from Bromley who, through the lens of a series of thinly autobiographical personas, invented the idea of the pop star as a living work of art, was early progenitor of gender fluidity, and precipitated the global financial crisis by securitising his back-catalog, and then died in 2016, illustrating that his very existence was the one thing holding the world together. Well — it hasn’t really been the same since, has it?
