Yep, I know what you mean. Just realised my phone corrected his name to that of a small cake. I'll wager it's not the first time that's happened.

I heard the rest if the band are going to carry on and maintain a sense of normality and continuity.

Interesting. Never heard of him or his band, but just watched "California Solo", a meh Robert Carlyle vehicle about a washed-up expat Brit rocker who gets booted out of the USA on account of an old pot bust.

Are you expecting everyone to be suddenly be immortal in 2017?

Of course. Aren't you?

2016 was the year of the celebrity death.
2017 was the year of the oh-it-seems-everyone-is-abusing-women.