His end was not an incandescent rock-and-roll martyrdom: there was no motorcycle crash or high-octane overdose.
Peters' home of Gapuwiyak is one of the small missionary-founded communities here, small specks dotted on the gargantuan tapestry of incandescent rocks, rivers and forests that make up Arnhem Land, an area larger than Portugal but with a population a little over 16,000.
A Jap machine gun, a Nambu, chattered from the flank and the air was thick with shrapnel, roiling, incandescent; the ground rocked with explosions.
Last October, Mount Etna in Sicily began spewing ash, rock and incandescent blobs of lava.
From Brixton, where he was born, to Beckenham, where he came of age; from Berlin, which generated three of his 25 remarkable albums, to New York's Soho, his home for the past two decades, fans of David Bowie are mourning the death of one of rock's most incandescent stars.
This rolling, 1,000-yard-stare music is not hard on the western ear; its incandescent licks and fluid grooves would set most rock types to weeping.
Japanese art student Yasutoki Kariya has created a new version of Newton's cradle using light in his piece Asobi, which consists of 11 computer-programmed incandescent light bulbs that hang from strings and rock back and forth just like the original.
In late 1955, Richard had a hit with Tutti Frutti and decamped to Los Angeles for an incandescent, if brief, eruption of some of the greatest rock and roll records ever made.
Their violent impacts gouged out the large craters still visible on the Moon's face, heated Earth's surface into molten rock and boiled off its oceans into an incandescent mist.
The man who leapt into the void in suburban Paris, used women as living paintbrushes, painted with fire (with fireman on hand) and turned the world, canvases and sculptures an incandescent patented blue arrives at Tate Liverpool to ravish, annoy, rock the eyeballs and make us laugh.
