The inevitable, yet still very sad news...

[sp1814]

...Amy Winehouse has died.

Personally, I'm very sad because it looked like she had sorted herself out. Too much talent, too many demons.

[emmie]

Sp, the third thread, but yes its sad, i wasn't a big fan, so won't be hypocritical, but it is a waste.

[Whickerman]

Joins the 27 Club

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club

[VHG]

>>>it looked like she had sorted herself out.

But she was booed off stage only a few weeks ago for being drunk on stage and had to cancel the rest of her tour.

So it does not sound as though she had sorted herself out.

Very sad but not unexpected.

[sp1814]

em10

I can't see any earlier ones on the News thread...perhaps in 'Music'?

[emmie]

Sp this is the third thread, one i can see is in CB

[emmie]

the other under artists

[Maydup]

What does it matter how many threads? RIP Amy.

[notasyoungasiwas]

My sentiments exactly Maidup ...

[emmie]

Sp said couldn't see any others.

[boxtops]

search for Amy in the red box at the top, they are all listed.

[jno]

not really inevitable - look at Keith Richard. Some people survive, some don't, and she was one of the unlucky ones.

(Actually, sad though it is, this happened all the time back in the 1960s, as per Whickerman's post; somehow we've come to expect people to be immortal.)

[modeller]

OK It's my age ! But I turned the TV on and what did I get? Three quarters of an hour about the death of a Junkie. After that was the report on the FIFA corruption and then the 10 minute update of the massacre of 90 people ,most of them teenagers in Norway. So much for our sense of values.

[emmie]

Modeller, i couldn't agree more.

[Postdog]

I'm with you modeller. Here and elsewhere I've just seen a lot of comments I don't wholly agree with. Yeah, sorta sad, but a bit of perspective in relation to her history and other events is called for I think.

[jno]

don't confuse a sense of values with a sense of chronology. The most recent event on the news was the one that came first. It was also the one nearest home.

[LoftyLottie]

What a very sad ending for a girl with talent who could have had a lovely life. As jno said, it happened all the time back in the 60's and we grew used to it.

RIP Amy.

[LoftyLottie]

And I also agree with jno about news coverage.

[sp1814]

modeller

I understand your sentiments, but I should clarify something for you. Amy Winehouse was by a country mile the best British singer this country has produced in the past decade.

Q (Britain's biggest selling music magazine) named her 'Artist of the Decade' at the end of 2010, based on her peerless albums 'Frank' and 'Back To Black'.

She was also opened the door for a whole raft of great (my opinion only) female artists such as Jessie J, Adele, Estelle, Kate Nash, Lily Allen etc because record companies realised (through Amy's success) that they could make big money from strong female solo artists.

Summarising her as a 'junkie' DOESN'T belie your age, but it DOES belie your knowledge of her cultural impact.

Incidentally - the main news providers lead with the Norway story tonight, with the hacking scandal at number two and Amy third.

It's possible that when you turned on your TV, it was breaking news, so that's why there was so much news devoted to the story.

[daisya]

I can never understand how society can accept anyone who goes outside the norm or who doesn't conform to the norm of the culture of that society. It doesn't matter if they are the best person, most wonderful singer or whatever they are good at, surely what counts is the way they lead their lives as an example to those who follow them. If they fall by the wayside, yes it's sad, yet if they refuse help or ignore the warnings from their loved ones and those who admire them then it is by their own hand they fall. If more people in the public eye were ostracised for wrong doing, then perhaps the youngsters wouldn't think that anything goes just because their idol does it. It might bring people to their senses to know that there are limits to everything and that some things really are not acceptable within a decent society.

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daisya

I think you're making some assumptions here.

Amy Winehouse DID go to rehab (several times), but there are those - such as Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin and Jerry Lee Lewis whose talent outweighed their personal shortcomings.