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junglejim
23-07-2011, 17:27
News reports of Amy Winehouse found dead in flat - Just a tragedy waiting to happen !
sorry mods - header spelling wrong - can you fix please?
In North London flat, aged 27, She played a gig last night!
Andy0210
23-07-2011, 17:31
Post edited. Apologies to JungleJim, R.I.P Amy Winehouse
What a tragic short life - what a talent :(
junglejim
23-07-2011, 17:32
Live on Sky News just now !
Chris P. Bacon
23-07-2011, 17:35
Have a look here http://news.sky.com/skynews/Showbiz-News
YOUNG GOLFER
23-07-2011, 17:45
What a waste of life from a very talented young lady.
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What a waste of life from a very talented young lady.
From the BBC
Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, has been found dead at her home, the Press Association has reported.
Last month, the north Londoner pulled out of her European tour after she was jeered at her comeback gig in Serbia for appearing too drunk to perform.
For 90 minutes, she mumbled through parts of songs and at times left the stage - leaving her band to fill in.
The troubled singer had a long battle with drink and drugs which overshadowed her musical career in recent years.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed that a 27-year-old woman had died in Camden and that the cause of death was as yet unexplained.
London Ambulance Service had been called to the flat at 1554 BST and sent two ambulances but the woman died, it said.
Winehouse had won widespread acclaim, aged 20, with her 2003 debut album, Frank.
But it was 2006's Back to Black which brought her worldwide stardom, winning five Grammy Awards.
Really sad news,what an utter waste of a really talented young person
How awful. Hopefully she can be at peace now! Not been an easy life for her. RIP Amy
chocaholic
23-07-2011, 18:17
RIP Amy what a terrible tragedy. So talented and so troubled, I hopeyou find the peace you deserve. Our thoughts and prayers for your Family RIP
I too wonder why such a gifted young Woman had to leave us. Our loss too
Many will miss Her, some will mouirn Her.
R.I.P.Amy
Andy0210
23-07-2011, 18:22
RIP Amy what a terrible tragedy. So talented and so troubled, I hopeyou find the peace you deserve. Our thoughts and prayers for your Family RIP
According to at least two news sources her closest family doesnīt know, her dads on a flight to America and hasnīt been told yet. How sad the whole planet knows before him. :(
What a tragic end for such a talented entertainer. R.I.P Amy
junglejim
23-07-2011, 19:00
Amy Winehouse
Janis Joplin
JImi Hendrix
Jim Morrison
Curt Cobain
All dead at 27
What a waste of talent - thankfully Iīm well over that age and not talented at all!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
Also Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and Jim Morrison of the Doors were 27!!! Strange!
Pink shoes
23-07-2011, 19:11
Oh NO! What a shock! she was so talented. I've just logged on to here after work to read this.
It is such a waste of that young girls life.
Just going to read the web post some kind person has put on here. So sad.
caroletenerife
23-07-2011, 19:37
The saddest thing is , this did not surprise me. I hope she has found peace, she was a very troubled young woman. I hope other learn something from her untimely death, though i suspect not.
So sad to read this. Such a talented girl, RIP Amy.
princessmonika
23-07-2011, 19:53
well drugs shorten life
she is not the first and will not be the last god love her rest in peace
Malteser Monkey
23-07-2011, 20:40
Wow can't believe it at such a young age, let's wait for the outcome but she was hammering it some. How fame hits some ! Sad very sad
RIP
Sorry for the family x
Very very sad,she could have had everything she ever dreamed of.R.I.P Amy.
so very sad .......RIP Amy...
slodgedad
23-07-2011, 21:22
R.I.P. Amy
What can anyone say?
Such a tragedy - so young too.
candy2411
23-07-2011, 22:15
So, so, sad !! I'm sure everyone is quite shocked, but just hope young people can learn something from this tragedy.
R.I.P. Amy
Can't say it surprised me
just listening to her music now, so very sad for her family and friends and as an earlier poster said maybe our young people will learn something from this. R.I.P Amy x
Harmonicaman
23-07-2011, 23:35
The sad fact is I don't think young people will learn from this. She was a young person, did she learn from Michael Jackson? Did he learn from Kurt Cobain? Did he learn from Elvis?...the list goes on.:(
The 27 club continues to welcome new members
The sad fact is I don't think young people will learn from this. She was a young person, did she learn from Michael Jackson? Did he learn from Kurt Cobain? Did he learn from Elvis?...the list goes on.:(
yes see your point, but if one young person takes a different path in life that's one life not wasted x
slodgedad
24-07-2011, 00:52
yes see your point, but if one young person takes a different path in life that's one life not wasted x
I agree. I know it's happened time and time again but I'm sure these role models' fate does hit home to some.
The sad fact is I don't think young people will learn from this. She was a young person, did she learn from Michael Jackson? Did he learn from Kurt Cobain? Did he learn from Elvis?...the list goes on.:(
Thats its a bit harsh bit of respect please
The sad fact is I don't think young people will learn from this. She was a young person, did she learn from Michael Jackson? Did he learn from Kurt Cobain? Did he learn from Elvis?...the list goes on.:(
I have to agree HM. She wasn't stupid. She knew full well that her preferences could kill her. It's always annoyed me that it's so acceptable in showbiz to do drugs. Is it any wonder kids fall for it? It's become cool over the years. It gets you on the front of the papers. Very little mention of a crime being commited and they rarely get jailed for it. If sport can ban drugs then so can showbiz. I don't wish to sound unsympathetic but in reality she took her own life slowly but surely and we all watched it happen via the media. Very talented girl who I liked at first but lost all respect for the minute she entered the wonderful world of narcotics.
amy had a choice,those poor kids in norway never:(
A life is a life, who ever it is. How they lose their life is irrelevant, they are still important to someone and loved. Nobody knows the real circumstances why these people do what they do. Problems are dealt with in different ways by people. So who are we to judge other people. It's a troubled world and we have to respect a loss of life however it happens..
R.I.P Amy
She'll be remembered as a great name in British Jazz instead of a drunken smackhead.
A sad loss to many types of music
R.I.P Amy xxx
She'll be remembered as a great name in British Jazz instead of a drunken smackhead.
A sad loss to many types of music
R.I.P Amy xxx
Unfortunately I think the opposite, IMO she will be remembered as a drunk and druggie singer which is a shame. Talented non the less. her torment is now over so RIP.
Goforgold
24-07-2011, 13:25
Unfortunately I think the opposite, IMO she will be remembered as a drunk and druggie singer which is a shame. Talented non the less. her torment is now over so RIP.
Sadly, I think you're right. I'd never heard of her until her father's appearances on tv discussing her problems. So sad when someone dies so very young whatever the circumstances. Unfortunately drink and drugs has become the norm in daily life whether celebrity or otherwise. It isn't going to go away.
cainaries
24-07-2011, 14:06
A sad weekend altogether. The worst year of my life (so far) was when I was 27. So if you have any 27 year olds in your family, give them some special TLC through that year - don't know why it should be such a bad one but it does seem to be. Surely 27 is too young to start saying to yourself that the best years of your life are behind you? And that's not true anyway.
Unfortunately I think the opposite, IMO she will be remembered as a drunk and druggie singer which is a shame. Talented non the less. her torment is now over so RIP.
I don't Concur
x
West mids tyke
24-07-2011, 18:00
a musical talent destroyed by her own success and too many hangers on and an ex husband that started the ball rolling, RIP Amy, hope you find your peace now that you deserve
Like many people, the news didn't shock me, but it saddened me enormously... Such a talent, but a tortured soul :( I hope she has now found peace...
She had problems long before she found fame, that only highlighted it. One of the most moving tributes I've read was from Russell Brand. You can read it Here (http://www.mrpaparazzi.com/post/15782/Russell-Brand-pens-a-moving-tribute-to-Amy-Winehouse)
May you Rest in Peace Amy... your music will live on, though I will find it difficult to listen to your newest album (when they do eventually release it).
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a musical talent destroyed by her own success and too many hangers on and an ex husband that started the ball rolling, RIP Amy, hope you find your peace now that you deserve
No, she had the problems before him, though her choice of men certainly made the situation worse...
timmylish
24-07-2011, 21:22
Amy Winehouse. Brilliant musical abilities. Quite unique and that,s what I will remember whenever her name crops up, not her addictions, whatever they may have been.
timmylish
24-07-2011, 23:23
A very fitting addendum me thinks. I shall, just call it "THE Phone Call";-
For Amy,
"When you love someone who suffers from the disease of addiction you await the phone call. There will be a phone call. The sincere hope is that the call will be from the addict themselves, telling you they’ve had enough, that they’re ready to stop, ready to try something new. Of course though, you fear the other call, the sad nocturnal chime from a friend or relative telling you it’s too late, she’s gone.
Frustratingly it’s not a call you can ever make it must be received. It is impossible to intervene.
I’ve known Amy Winehouse for years. When I first met her around Camden she was just some twit in a pink satin jacket shuffling round bars with mutual friends, most of whom were in cool Indie bands or peripheral Camden figures Withnail-ing their way through life on impotent charisma. Carl Barrat told me that “Winehouse” (which I usually called her and got a kick out of cos it’s kind of funny to call a girl by her surname) was a jazz singer, which struck me as a bizarrely anomalous in that crowd. To me with my limited musical knowledge this information placed Amy beyond an invisible boundary of relevance; “Jazz singer? She must be some kind of eccentric” I thought. I chatted to her anyway though, she was after all, a girl, and she was sweet and peculiar but most of all vulnerable.
I was myself at that time barely out of rehab and was thirstily seeking less complicated women so I barely reflected on the now glaringly obvious fact that Winehouse and I shared an affliction, the disease of addiction. All addicts, regardless of the substance or their social status share a consistent and obvious symptom; they’re not quite present when you talk to them. They communicate to you through a barely discernible but un-ignorable veil. Whether a homeless smack head troubling you for 50p for a cup of tea or a coked-up, pinstriped exec foaming off about his “speedboat” there is a toxic aura that prevents connection. They have about them the air of elsewhere, that they’re looking through you to somewhere else they’d rather be. And of course they are. The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of the day with some purchased relief.
From time to time I’d bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was “a character” but that world was riddled with half cut, doped up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn’t especially register.
Then she became massively famous and I was pleased to see her acknowledged but mostly baffled because I’d not experienced her work and this not being the 1950’s I wondered how a “jazz singer” had achieved such cultural prominence. I wasn’t curious enough to do anything so extreme as listen to her music or go to one of her gigs, I was becoming famous myself at the time and that was an all consuming experience. It was only by chance that I attended a Paul Weller gig at the Roundhouse that I ever saw her live.
I arrived late and as I made my way to the audience through the plastic smiles and plastic cups I heard the rolling, wondrous resonance of a female vocal. Entering the space I saw Amy on stage with Weller and his band; and then the awe. The awe that envelops when witnessing a genius. From her oddly dainty presence that voice, a voice that seemed not to come from her but from somewhere beyond even Billie and Ella, from the font of all greatness. A voice that was filled with such power and pain that it was at once entirely human yet laced with the divine. My ears, my mouth, my heart and mind all instantly opened. Winehouse. Winehouse? Winehouse! That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I’d only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound. So now I knew. She wasn’t just some hapless wannabe, yet another ****** up nit who was never gonna make it, nor was she even a ten-a-penny-chanteuse enjoying her fifteen minutes. She was a ******* genius.
Shallow fool that I am I now regarded her in a different light, the light that blazed down from heaven when she sang. That lit her up now and a new phase in our friendship began. She came on a few of my TV and radio shows, I still saw her about but now attended to her with a little more interest. Publicly though, Amy increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that youtube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. This and her manner in our occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of her condition. Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death. I was 27 years old when through the friendship and help of Chip Somers of the treatment centre, Focus12 I found recovery, through Focus I was introduced to support fellowships for alcoholics and drug addicts which are very easy to find and open to anybody with a desire to stop drinking and without which I would not be alive.
Now Amy Winehouse is dead, like many others whose unnecessary deaths have been retrospectively romanticised, at 27 years old. Whether this tragedy was preventable or not is now irrelevant. It is not preventable today. We have lost a beautiful and talented woman to this disease. Not all addicts have Amy’s incredible talent. Or Kurt’s or Jimi’s or Janis’s, some people just get the affliction. All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care. We need to look at the way our government funds rehabilitation. It is cheaper to rehabilitate an addict than to send them to prison, so criminalisation doesn’t even make economic sense. Not all of us know someone with the incredible talent that Amy had but we all know drunks and junkies and they all need help and the help is out there. All they have to do is pick up the phone and make the call. Or not. Either way, there will be a phone call."
Written by Russell Brand, of all people. But, he like some others to-day are, at least being honest when talking about their own frailties. I,ve not put this up to contradict my previous statement but to make clear that there are alternatives. You just decide, as he says more eloquently thank I could, when.
That's the tribute from Russell Brand, that I posted the link for Timmylish... The best tribute I read ;)
timmylish
25-07-2011, 00:52
So sorry Maxine for my oversight. No harm done, I hope, as some people never bother to open links, so I shall not delete, if you don,t mind?
So sorry Maxine for my oversight. No harm done, I hope, as some people never bother to open links, so I shall not delete, if you don,t mind?
Absolutely no need to delete, or apologise... I merely mentioned they were the same to save people clicking on my link. I didn't post it because of the language he used.
Glad you found it as moving as I did... ;)
That's the tribute from Russell Brand, that I posted the link for Timmylish... The best tribute I read ;)
Never been a fan of Winehouse or Brand but that tribute made me think.
It's her family I feel for, I have daughters that age and to lose them... well it's unthinkable.
Goforgold
25-07-2011, 10:11
Never been a fan of Winehouse or Brand but that tribute made me think.
It's her family I feel for, I have daughters that age and to lose them... well it's unthinkable.
It is unthinkable and the loss doesn't get any easier as the year's go by............
Never been a fan of Winehouse or Brand but that tribute made me think.
It's her family I feel for, I have daughters that age and to lose them... well it's unthinkable.
I was informed about Amy Winehouse's death from an old friend who now resided in Australia because he too had an addiction to heavy drugs in the UK
His escape wasn't rehab it was cut all ties and thankfully it worked.
Along the same lines as you've mentioned we both related to and said that it's a Dad who has lost his daughter and that was pretty scary to both of us.
Anyway on a lighter note the Acid Jazz band Jamiroquai dedicated their song 'High Times' to Amy Winehouse at last night's gig in tribute to her Life they have said that
Amy Winehouse was a true British talent, with a natural gift for Jazz and Soul.
She will be missed by everyone who has a passion for music with raw emotion at it's heart.
We dedicated 'High Times' to Amy at last night's gig in tribute to her. We'll miss you, Amy x
BREAKING NEWS:An inquest into the death of Amy Winehouse has been adjourned after it found 'no cause of death', say reports.
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