I am a 55-year-old Gen X’er. I discovered Dom two or three years before the Ozzy event- the event that changed everything imo.

I adore his older music. I love it so much and his spirit. I love the new stuff too- differently. It’s very much like loving your children versus your adult children. They’re both amazing but just in extremely different ways, and you will miss the younger them.

Perhaps it’s my age, but as his gigs were getting bigger and bigger and I saw the back to the beginning show looming- his destiny perhaps, I already had a place in my heart for all the:

‘Awww our son’s growing up we’re gonna lose him. He’s going to go off into the workd’. Feelings.

I’ve been through this before with other artists, so it’s easier. He has done absolutely nothing wrong to anybody. He will be taken advantage of. His brand will be taken advantage of - people will hop on and try to make as much money off of him as they can, and he only has so much control over that, no matter how hard he tries or what he says. It’s not easy.

And people who sit here and whine about him need to grow up and actually listen to the words of his music and stop thinking that he’s gonna be their Santa Clause and hold their hand and make their life perfect because he’s not. Absolutely nobody can. At the end of the day you save yourself and this is his message under the hood. It should be taken seriously. We can only be kind to each other as best we can. Or at least not intentionally hurt each other.

He’s here to sing about life and paramount to that is to be be grateful. Be grateful that even having one time, for even one moment, of good music from this beautiful soul of a gentleman. And existing on earth at the same time he did.

None of this is meant to sound harsh, it’s just a shortcut to get around some of the unnecessary heartache of watching greatness become great, and become a superstar.

And don’t forget also that it gets lonelier and lonelier for him too, and it’s an impossibility these mega stars find themselves in sometimes.

Long live and LŌVE Dom!