I see his fan club are all online today.....

What interested me about this story was (a) the fact he is still described as a 'folk' artist when that description isn't really accurate (or hasn't been for decades) and (b) the fact that somebody who made a handful of (to my mind) really good pop singles in the 1960s gets to qualify for such a grandiose title.

Maybe all you have to do these days to get an 'icon' label is to not be dead yet.