I was never really a fan, but his music was part of the soundtrack to my life. When we moved back to the UK, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go was what introduced me to the concept of 'pop music', and he featured prominently in my parents' music collection for the rest of the 80s and much of the 90s. He was still going strong when I lost the plot with current music around the turn of the century, and a cursory glance at Wikipedia confirms that he's done a load of stuff since that I haven't heard of.
Lots of touring, sticking it to the man from the record company, and the fine piece of trolling that was the Outside video all adds up to him being a Good Egg, even without the philanthropy and LGBT/HIV activism. And he could sing, obviously.
As with Freddie, people like that don't so much die as evolve into music.