Death is a star

Well, it only took 49 years and 27 albums, but David Bowie finally topped the Billboard charts with Blackstar. The honour comes posthumously, which answers the question, “What does David Bowie have to do to get a No. 1 album?”

No lazyitis here

Shoppers at a Manchester Oxfam store were surprised to find Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder volunteering behind the till recently. You’ve got to wonder who would okay the guy who sang, “I’m the man that shot the boss/I pinned him down and blew his face off.”

Blowfly bows out

On the heels of David Bowie’s death, fabulously profane rap forefather Blowfly passed away from liver cancer at 76. God’s currently asking him to justify the line, “As the funk from her pussy started fuckin’ with my nose”.

Fake-Nard news

Saturday Night Live player Kyle Mooney dressed up as Nardwuar for an eerily accurate comedy sketch in which he interviewed Real Estate’s Matt Mondanile. That he accidentally connected Mondanile to Master P was the only tip-off “Nardwur” wasn’t real.