very sad news..........Breaking News on UK rolling news networks (Sky News) Amy Winehouse found dead this afternoon at her North London flat....

....bloody, bloody sad.

Rest in Peace Ms Winehouse

Really awful and sad news.  Poor woman, just lost control.

A sad end to a troubled life. May she rest in peace.

http://goo.gl/K4E75

So sad, such a beautiful voice! May all your torments be over and may you rest in peace.

KEEF tried to warn her but she didnt take his advice. Yeah the 27 Club got another member today. RIP Amy. Are they disclosing the cause of death as an overdose?

RIP

being treated as a 'Drugs Overdose' .....Sky News sources.

I just came on here & saw this, what!!?? so sad, so young too, R.I.P. Amy.

I must admit, I saw this coming.

But nonetheless....a very sad waste of a young and talented life.

RIP Amy

I am totally shocked--although I don't know why. I have been watching the 1963 version of "Lord Of The Flies" on TV, and that is such a weird movie/book. And then, I come here and see this.... Just surreal. She really had the talent. She just couldn't control her life.

steel driving hammer wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2011 at 12:51pm:


Probably was clean for a bit... most people OD after a short break, the body is healthy and the brain thinks it can still handle the same amounts you were recently doing...
I'm not surprised, it's the people that ain't dead that surprise me...

FotiniD wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2011 at 3:37pm:


Thats precisely why it was such a shock to me too. I know she's had a few 'moments' lately, but it was nothing on the scale of 2007-08 when it really did seem that her demise was imminent, she was self-harming and looked skeletal. In the last year or so she'd put on a bit of weight, was recording again and I really did begin to think that it was a story that was going to have a happy ending.


This was her last week in London. Certainly looked relatively healthy.



Never took class A drugs until she met that piece of shit that she married, either. I hope he's proud of himself today.

Here are 15 Rock people who died at 27.
http://www.spinner.ca/2011/04/05/dead-at-27-musicians-who-died/

RIP

Just woke up to this.

Beyond sad...angry too, such a waste of talent

i will never forget the rush i got the first time i heard her when this came out of the radio unannounced, I thought WTF is this?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojdbDYahiCQ


and this 27 thing really is a bit weird

I was at work today when i heard...but had no details...Such a great loss...

RIP Amy

http://www.amywinehouse.com/

Very sad and tragic news.

Now we have to listen to the fucking media's ignorance, exaggerations, one-off stories, dramatic instances, inaccuracies, and lies about drug use.  What you will not hear is that there is a certain fortitude, probably genetic, to successful hard core drug use, soft core drug use, or any drug use  Some (<<<<46 male, conservative, 163 IQ, endowed, honky) have it, some don't.  Somewhat more accurately (although not always so), some have it when they are relatively young and are sensible enough to realize its waning when they get relatively older.  Amy Winehouse didn't have any of it, at all, ever, from what I can tell.  A cannabis joint could have killed her (although it was probably cocaine).  That is the sad part of this, on many levels, she never had a chance from the day she first got high.  She couldn't handle drugs in the slightest.

sirmoonie wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2011 at 10:14pm:


Pretty much. She was one of those who completely let it engulf her and she eventually succumbed to it we presume. Keith is a #1 example of how someone can survive and succeed despite heavy drug use. Amy sadly is on the other end of that spectrum. She's like ex-Neil Young confidante and Crazy Horse member Danny Whitten. Within 3 years of becoming a junkie, he was gone. Could not handle it whatsoever. Took Amy about 5 or 6 years but she eventually flamed out too. And yet Ozzie Osbourne still walks the Earth.

Ronnie Wood dedicated yesterday's gig by The Faces to Amy, he did the same with his Absolute Radio programme

From lefty's post at The Faces thread


- Ronnie Wood


- Mick Hucknall

Prodigal Son wrote on Jul 24^th, 2011 at 5:13am:



i wouldn't say Keith was successful at drinking and drugging. He may have escaped death and long prison sentences... but after reading his book, if you really look at what he did, to his friends and family around him, and put into context, not that it's Keith our fave guitarist or read it from his narcisistic perspective. Keith did some really, really lame shit. He was a shitty Dad to Marlon, a bad husband and lover to many. He often was violent or argumentative to people unprovoked. Let's be real, when you look at people who act like this, without the glam or their view of it, they are really just lousy drunks and druggies. IMO, he was far from exempt or succesful, just lucky. He still, as we know, is a pretty sharp tongued prick too, He has succeeed despite these things, but that doesn't mean many people haven't been hurt and damaged by his actions along the way.

Love those IOW pix!

everybody always forgets about pigpen when discussing the 27 club. the loss of him and his beard make it doubly tragic.



sad that otis couldn't have lived another half year or so...he would be a sparkling addition to this club.

  Starbuck wrote on Jul 24^th, 2011 at 11:25pm:


Sad he couldn't hold on for 6 months?

Sad he couldn't live another 60+ years!

All of them really.

I don't like adding people to this death club.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/8658565/Amy-Winehouse-unfinished-album-...

It begins already. There'll probably be greatest hits and demos and live stuff put out too.
According to Amy herself, the stuff recorded for the third album is similar to Back To Black and is very "jukebox" I've heard that she was working with or planned to work with ?uestlove. Any work released could be interesting, despite being unfinished. I'm just hoping we don't get piles of tacky cash-ins.

Would anyone buy the third album if it's released in some form?

I meant anyone as in anyone on here. It's sure to be a top seller. I'd buy it too.

I'm watching Entertainment Tonight in the U.S. right now---they will soon have a report about the '27" club, and they actually showed footage of Brian Jones. He is usually left out of the "list" of rememberees, and it always makes me just want him to be remembered....not necessarily for being the first member of the club from the modern era, but for the musician and visionary he was......so, at least, it looks like they will get it right tonight.

stonedinaustralia wrote on Jul 25^th, 2011 at 6:45pm:



al "blind owl" wilson from canned heat two weeks before hendrix

Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan from the Dead, dead at 27

Honky Tonk Man wrote on Jul 26^th, 2011 at 12:04pm:


From one news report, she was drinking heavily & had a seizure, they didn't find no drugs in her place, everybody thinks drugs are bad, well, booze can be just as bad.

Heart Of Stone wrote on Jul 26^th, 2011 at 1:18pm:


Absolutely - booze can be just as bad... andshe knocked back vodka for Camden, reportedly.

This song is about Janis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYA16z2-xFg

Honky Tonk Man wrote on Jul 26^th, 2011 at 12:42am:


When the Stones stop, Sticky Fingers will enter at #1.

Rest in peace, Amy.

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jul 27^th, 2011 at 11:01pm:


I think the world has more pressing problems than this, but it is rather distasteful that they're already talking about opening the "Winehouse vaults."  

Hadley Freeman

guardian.co.uk,

'What have we learned from the death of Amy Winehouse?" asked the hapless MSNBC news anchor. As this question was posed on Sunday morning when nothing was yet known about Winehouse's death other than the sad fact of it, the only answer to this question was, well, we seem to have learned that celebrities die.

Yet even though this is proved many times every year, certain elements of the media still get the reporting of these deaths very badly wrong. Which is remarkable, considering how eagerly some tabloid newspapers and websites wish for certain celebrities – Winehouse very much included – to die, judging by their tendency to harass them and laugh at them to a degree that would make a psychotic playground bully blush.

There is nothing a tabloid likes more than a predictable story arc, and by "predictable" I mean the one that they think would sell the most copies of their publication. Hence the ongoing obsession with the Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie trifecta, and the eternal insinuation in all stories about them that, one day, Brad'n'Jen will reunite. (SPOILER ALERT: They won't.) Jude Law and Sienna Miller played the same part in the UK until they did reunite and promptly broke up again, going disobediently off the Happily Ever After script that the weekly gossip magazines had mapped out for them. Didn't they know they were supposed to stay together for ever, if only so we could admire Sienna's wedding dress and see Jude married off before all of his hair disappears?

Winehouse, was, for a while, the female counterpart to Pete Doherty: the celebrity the British tabloids trailed around London (mysteriously, these tabloids always seemed to know where they'd be), cackling with glee at, simultaneously, their wild life ("Caner of the year!") and their visible decline. To read tabloid journalists berating the drug dealers for their part in Winehouse's death is to hear the sound of a pot calling the kettle, if not black exactly, then certainly kitchen-based.

But Doherty and Winehouse both seemed to go off-script by daring to survive, if not quite being fully alive. Until this weekend, when Winehouse at last gave the media a collective orgasm of prurient crocodile tears by dying. At last we can wheel out those pre-written columns as we photograph her body being wheeled out of her house!

Which returns us to the only thing to learn from Winehouse's far-too-early death: celebrities die and many people appear at a loss as to how to cover such events. So here is a handy guide about what not to do when a celebrity you've been tormenting for years dies.

1. Don't print unproven conjectures about how they died.

A certain downmarket British tabloid * had two theories about Winehouse's death on its front page on Sunday, one claiming she "drank herself to death" and the other claiming she'd bought a buffet of drugs the night before. Now, I know you want to give your readers voyeuristic if not necessarily factually based thrills but make sure your claims don't contradict each other, at least not on the front of your website.

2. Don't use their corpse to bang your own drum.

Melanie Phillips waited a whole 48 hours before using Winehouse's death to launch into her favourite subject: "Britain has degenerated." But the prize goes to the Huffington Post with its article, "Amy Winehouse's Untimely Death is a Wake Up Call for Small Business Owners." Yes, and what does it tell us about the importance of organic vegetables? Stay classy, Arianna.

3. Don't use it to promote yourself.

More for fellow celebrities, this. U2 dedicated Stuck in a Moment to Winehouse, a gesture that would be more touching if (a) Bono hadn't already claimed it was for Michael Hutchence (one dead singer is the same as the next, eh?) and (b) if Winehouse hadn't famously told Bono to shut up at an awards ceremony and therefore, presumably was not a U2 fan. As for you, MIA, releasing a song called 27 pegged to Winehouse's death makes the time you claimed Gaddafi was "one of my style icons" look relatively tasteful.

4. And speaking of 27, enough about 27.

Yes, Winehouse died at 27. And so did some other celebrities! But how many died in the month of March? Or at 10:19pm? This 27 Club nonsense awkwardly hoiks separate individuals together and insinuates that their deaths are part of a great rock'n'roll tradition.

5. And speaking of tradition, enough of the "death foretold" nonsense.

Yes, Winehouse had her troubles but there was nothing "inevitable" about her or anyone's tragically premature death. I interviewed her in 2004 and she was funny, confident and healthy. I next saw her three years later at Benicassim, emaciated, disoriented and literally falling down the steps of an outside toilet. That was not "foretold". That was shocking.

6. Don't print photos or details that you gleaned through possibly distasteful means.

It would be very interesting to know how certain tabloids attained such detailed knowledge of Winehouse's alleged final drug purchase *, say, or how they always knew where to find her to take photos of her.

7. No puns, please.

It is a de rigueur part of covering the death of a celebrity – you gotta pun on the title of one of their songs or films, right? Actually, you don't. The New York Post's "They Tried to Make Her Go To Rehab, She Said No No No" was as predictable as it was stupid. But it was an American breakfast TV show that really, hopefully, took this schtick to its nadir, punning, sorta, on Winehouse's song title You Know I'm No Good to You Know I'm Dead.

I'm sure we're all looking forward to the Back to Black headlines following her funeral.






* The Daily Mail - no fucking surprise there.

Coroner: Amy Winehouse Died From Alcohol Poisoning
Singer was over five times the legal drunk-driving limit
Comment 3
By Matthew Perpetua
October 26, 2011 9:15 AM ET

Mitch Winehouse, the father of Amy Winehouse, and her stepmother Jane leave St. Pancras Coroner's Court on October 26th, 2011
Mitch Winehouse, the father of Amy Winehouse, and her stepmother Jane leave St. Pancras Coroner's Court on October 26th, 2011
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

A coroner has ruled that Amy Winehouse died as the unintended result of drinking too much alcohol. According to pathology reports, Winehouse had consumed a "very large quantity of alcohol" and was more than five times over the legal drunk-driving limit in Britain at the time of her death. As a result, her passing has been ruled a "death by misadventure."

Winehouse, who struggled with alcoholism and drug abuse for much of her adult life, was found dead at her home in London on July 23rd. She was 27 years old.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/amy-winehouse-died-from-alcohol-poisoning...

So Sad So Sad.

Interesting info, EG. I know they said there were no drugs found in her system, and that she had been off the bottle for a few weeks. She drank a lot--and it was the first time in awhile.

I did hear that there were Vodka bottles {plural--don't know how many} scattered about the place....I'm thinking that maybe that much alcohol, after weeks of abstinence, might have geen a factor. And this seems to be more of a problem with women--and small ones especially. Just speculating...

Bitch wrote on Oct 27^th, 2011 at 11:21pm:


The article said per hour, not per night. Hopefully you've never seen someone drink 15 drinks/shots in an hour? On second thought, that's equivalent to chugging a pint of vodka which I've seen people do. Crazy.

I'll admitt it!  I like to drink! 

It's sad, because my father has battled with alcoholism all his life.  He sobers up enough to work a few months.  Save a little money.  And, then, he goes on these drinking binges that last months!

As a child, I swore I would never drink.  It wasn't until I went to college and got influenced by other people in the dorms, that I started to drink.

The truth is alcohol makes me happy and relaxed.  Of course, I know my limit, 3 beers or one shot of hard liquor.  Just enough to give me a slight buzz.  I only drink on the weekends. I never drink when I am on my period. (Advil and alcohol are a bad combination.)

And I fucking hate Lady Gaga, Madonna, U2, etc. They are shit. If you like to purchase their products, then you are probably not shit. But it's your money.

Sounds good.

An early take of 'Tears dry on their own' ? Cool. If they put out a boxed set with 60 takes of that song, I'd still probably be all over it.

Lookin' forward to hearin' her do 'Mr Hathaway''s song too.

Love Amy.

New album just in time for the Christmas market.

Gazza wrote on Oct 31^st, 2011 at 7:31am:


Agreed - I struggle for superlatives to properly describe how much I like that song and how good I think it is

Look forward to hearing a slower take on it

The line about Amy never singing a song the same way twice reminded me they used to say the same thing about Billie Holiday.

"Like Smoke" single http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xm425c_amy-winehouse-ft-nas-like-smoke_music from 2008.

Not bad, not great either, it ain't no "Rehab" - most recent recording on the upcoming album if I got it right.

gotdablouse wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2011 at 10:27am:


Me likey...