One year ago today the world lost one of its true creative geniuses: David Bowie.
A musical tour de force, actor, painter and philosopher, Bowie died quietly of liver cancer aged 69 - and the news of his death stunned us as we began our own journeys in 2016.
So what would the original 'Space Oddity' make of life on Earth in the 12 months since he left it?
Thankfully, there are clues within his music to answer this question.
2016 would have angered Bowie
In 1979 Bowie had a Look Back in Anger at humanity and the world on his album Lodger; 10 upbeat songs about travelling the globe from Africa to the Far East.
But if life three decades ago made Bowie angry, 2016 would have had him seething.
Never-ending famines, civil wars and social inequality - what isn't there to get angry about?
Bowie believes there will be panic in Detroit
Bowie's first tour of the US made a great impression on the young artist. He wrote each song on his landmark 1973 album Aladdin Sane about a separate place in America that he had visited, and the city of Detroit came in for a special mention.
The majority of Detroit's residents voted for Hilary Clinton in the 2016 US election, while almost everyone else in the state of Michigan voted for Donald Trump.
Bowie was right about Detroit, there will be panic.
Is there really life on Mars?
There might have been millions of years ago if we're to believe NASA's Mars rover, which discovered evidence of water having once flowed across the red planet in 2016.
Bowie's song Life on Mars? was actually all about the Earth being consumed by corporate and consumer greed.
That seems even more relevant today as it did in 1971.
Bowie believes we only have five years left
OK, so he first performed Five Years in 1972 to kick-start his seminal album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, but his message is even more relevant today than it was more than 40 years ago.
Take your pick from World War III, nuclear annihilation, or a catastrophic weather event thanks to climate change; the human race could easily end within the next five years.
Planet Earth is blue without you Mr Bowie.
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