what does Star Trek/Star Wars have to do with this
The only thing Planr likes is sci-fi.
Perhaps he's in a different culture than you?
If I recall by googling, he made songs in the 60's correct? That's over 50 years ago. I've only heard of his name and the name "space odyssey," but I've not heard one song by him in my life till clicking a link on this thread. Me not hearing a song by him doesn't make me uncultured. His music is old. Not one of my friends ever mentioned his name to me in my life either. Blah.
Like your Starwars example. There's still people who haven't watched it. Yeah it's surprising but I wouldn't say they lack culture.
I'm having a hard time accumulating my words right now but I hope you get my point.
My point was that it's surprising that he has neither never heard of the guy, nor heard anything of his.
I don't know all of his songs. I know hardly a fraction of them. But I know who he is, because he's impossible to have not heard of in some way, shape or form.
As I said earlier about Star Wars, and as you pointed out, not everyone knows everything about them or has even seen them, but it's impossible to have not even heard of it before.
They're such a big cultural icon that either you should have encountered them yourself, or most definitely encountered people who have talked about it.
By the way (and not as a point against you, or meaning to sound rude), Bowie was releasing music all throughout his career, which started in the 60s.
He released an album last Friday.
