(April 22, 2016 at 3:35 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: An enormously talented performer. I'm not a huge fan of his, but what I always admired about him was his fearlessness at taking risks with his music. I never got the feeling that he would kowtow or pander -- he challenged listeners to follow him as he went from rock to soul to funk to a fusion of all those genres.
Interesting, since I don't remember seeing him as that different from the mainstream in the 80ies. And I mean the actual time. His music never did strike me as particularly daring or different compared to anything else being in the charts.