Man, I was just going onto the main Beefheart fan website to look at the news updates and I saw a BBC link with an obituary and I literally had to double-take at it. I'm pretty shocked to be honest, didn't expect that.
My favourite artist of all time ever since I first listened to his music a few years ago, theres just nothing else like Beefheart and this is a sad day for music, a true musical genius gone.
R.I.P. Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart