My first reaction when I heard this was to feel bloody angry with him. And even more angry that he's not there to be angry at.

If he was going to go out being shot it ought to have been that he was shot by some bastard he annoyed, and who deserved to be annoyed. There were always plenty of them. I hate to think they won't have to worry about him getting at them any more.

He wrote some good songs too.

As for the stuff about him being 67 and past it - that's the prime of life. He should have had years more, and better stuff to write than he'd ever written yet.