David Bowie has died, a mere three days after his 69th birthday and, turning on the television early today to be greeted by this news was both a shock and saddening for all of us, I’m sure.

Tributes will flow from all over the world to a man who was, quite simply, a musical genius. A man whose talent spanned six decades from the late 1960s to the present day.

Very few, if any, musicians boasted such an extraordinary and prodigious talent and fewer still boasted his influence in the worlds of music, art and fashion. The word “icon” tends to be overused nowadays and can therefore lose its meaning and effectiveness, but David Bowie was an icon by anybody’s definition.

I think today will be one of those days when we remember where we were when we learned the news of David Bowie’s death. He was that great.