Hope she's now found the peace she was so evidently missing in her life - I'll miss her music, such a great loss. Ironic how Rehab will probably be the song she's remembered for the most, but as Amy sang so herself '...I told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no good' - she did try to warn us, I suppose :(
I am gutted at this terrible news. So young and talented, her music will live forever. She'll be sorely missed by many around the world. May she rest in peace.
Shock horror known drug addict found dead. Forgive me if I sound cold but she made some really stupid decisions.
Some poeple are dealt bad cards like uncurable brain tummors (my mother for one). Some people have so much money and waste their talent and lives, 27 is no age.
Yes, you do sound cold, but I know you're not alone in your thinking. The girl was ill. No one chooses to become an addict.
'Rob Wheeldon is the name. Poetry is a drug. Please partake of this drug with me, I,am a poetry pusher and taker.'
Interesting profile. Good luck with your own addiction. I hope it doesn't kill you.
she choose her lifestyle. Others do nt choose their fates like the 93 dead in norway or all the under fives dieing in africa. If you take heroin, ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine and alcohol what do you think will happen?
People do choose their lifestyle face it. I know an old school friend who went the same way( in to hard drugs) he knew full well what he was doing.Its sad her end but the truth is only she could of pulled herself out of the nose dive.
I feel bizarrely guilty, for any time I've scanned over the headlines to read about Amy's latest trouble and now she's dead. Her family must be devastated.
She now has joined the 27 club of genius musicians who donated so much to the world. So sad. so young- but wow she sure gave it all she had. I really hope she is at peace now. RIP Amy
I agree with Oldpesky. Amy was really ill and she did try to pull herself out of the horrendous situation she was in - but she just wasn't equipped.
R.I.P Amy. We'll never forget you.
new cavalcaderl julie
Yes, Rest In Peace! Amy.
Awful news only 27. Always a talented
young girl, and her music. Battled it all.
Unfortunately has joined the 27 club, as once
she mentioned some of the talented ones. I think. Had so much going for her.
But to be talented like she had. Records be top's now. All over the world. I happened be watching horserace, outside @ 150-1 leading all way, suddenly
it was kind of stopped? and re-started? near end £2 e/way I had, lost completly, and given out, Amy Winehouse d only 27 so young, I don't think have a cd
of her though. Myabe if we could all be like "Peter Andre" programme help someone, in return doing a job
whatever free, like Youth centre he did, this won't happen in future. doing jobs get things free, like
helping mum's difficult child and re-taught her and took her out, how to cope! so many things could be done. I just given away a plastic rose bracelet cheap, but yesterday why! given a dozen eggs, how nice in re-turn. World be better place.
julie
You know Val- I think she was ill too but you are quite right- she could have saved her sanity herself by laying off the drugs- it's too easy to not do it!
I think you must be weak not to get out of it.
Perhaps an unexpected source of clarity and mature reflection, but Russel Brand's piece is worth reading. Having had the benefit of knowing her in person lets him approach the sick/idiot/criminal and wasted genius/indulged celebrity issues where others can only conjecture.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jul/24/russell-brand-amy-winehouse-...
Me, I take valiswaverider's point, but for me she's a high-profile indication of a genuine, and widely misunderstood, borderline of mental and physical illness. It's sad, and maybe it will help the UK realise why it's sad.
I deliberately didn’t comment on Amy’s ‘substance abuse’ because she has finally left it behind and she should be remembered for her talent and not for her personal problems.
I’ve always thought that entertainers are amongst the most important people in the world - if they have a great talent they bring such joy and happiness simply by sharing their gift with others.
In my book Amy made very many more people happy than she made sad - that’s what really counts in the end - and it is that joy that will live on in her music.
new I agree Well-wisher Amy, made so many happy, with her music Sad,so young that counts.
May she find the Peace now. But what talent, so
many could have never achieved she never gave up
may her music live on.
cavalcaderl julie
A great talent, very sad, she spent too much of her life in the black, which is a bad place to be.
When Back to Black came out I remember looking forward to seeing Amy at 50, armed with an amazing catalogue of songs, voice packed with life experience, the diva to end all divas. And then, nothing, the ridiculous celebrity merry go round that followed Back To Black brought out the worst in her, no new recordings, no new tours, just the same old mistakes repeated again and again.
I saw the last gig on her Frank tour and the first on her Back to Black. The audience changed so much in that time, In the later cambridge gig people weren't there for the music, as soon as she started singing everyone there got their phones out and started texting their mates. 'I'm at the gig of that woman everyone's talking about' they wrote, or something to that effect. And she played out her life for this audience. An audience who didn't care about the songs, one that wanted a pissed up celebrity on the front page of their tabloid and didn't want the inconvenience of actually having to listen to her.
But for all that went wrong, she brought me moments of absolute beauty, pleasure and joy. And for that I miss her greatly.
She was very talented, but I think she was also afraid of how talented she was; and didn't want to be helped. It's such a shame that "demons" such as drink & drugs took control of her, which eventually led to her demise. I will really miss her beautiful soulful voice, I've liked her music since day one. At least now she is sleeping peacefully, where no "demons" can control her.
I also miss her music. Her fans really miss her a lot. It's just so sad that she made drugs and alcohol controlled her life. I believe that there's still more to discuss about drugs, both unprohibited and prohibited. Unsafe use of drugs has taken so much lives. More and more brand-name drugs will lose patent protection this year, with several more to follow. Some drugs are about to become a lot cheaper. Some of the best-selling prescription drugs on the industry are incorporated, so Big Pharma’s damage will be the public’s gain. spam link removed
Great entertainers often suffer from a need to escape the pressures of their high profile lives and be it a legal drug like alcohol or an illegal one like heroin they often develop an excessive habit which blights their lives...
However, I don’t think we should allow that particular habit to define how we remember them.
After all, many people hasten their deaths by smoking tobacco but we don’t say how stupid of them to smoke cigarettes and allow tobacco to rule their lives.
Yes drugs are dangerous and addictive drugs are very dangerous but it is really the source of the NEED that is the real seat of the danger.
Fast cars, mountain climbing and numerous other past times contain an element of danger and seem to addict some people almost as obsessively as drugs do others - yet when someone dies from such an addiction we accept it as a part of life that it was a chance they were willing to take to 'feed their need' and get their kicks.
People can rightly say that occasionally Amy’s performance wasn’t all that it could be due to her drinking or illegal drug taking and for people who paid to see the performance then there is some basis for complaint.
However, how she lived her life was up to her just as how you live your life is up to you.
No-one but ourselves knows truly what weights we each carry and those carrying a backpack full of feathers abusing others who carry a backpack full of lead for not making enough effort may one day find their load is too heavy to carry and hope that those with lesser weights may be a lot more understanding than they were.
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