Amy Winehouse, erm, RIP.

Posted by: Tony Lockhart on 23 July 2011

A real shame really. A complete and utter waste.

Tony
Posted on: 23 July 2011 by JamieWednesday

So sad. So inevitable. So many people tried to 'save' her but I guess she didn't feel able to be saved. Terrible, terrible shame.

Posted on: 23 July 2011 by naim_nymph

 So very, very tragic. If only....

 

 

Debs

Posted on: 23 July 2011 by stephenjohn

how awful for her and her loved ones

Posted on: 23 July 2011 by Mike-B

Sad news,  a talented singer & I am sure could have been great jazz singer if she straightened out.  

Unfortunately she had lost her way in life.

Posted on: 23 July 2011 by lawoftrust
So talented but such a lost soul, once again...
Posted on: 23 July 2011 by MilesSmiles

Very sad news, the attempted last concert series was the last straw. 

Posted on: 23 July 2011 by Tony Lockhart
And another member of the 27 Club?
Posted on: 23 July 2011 by Gianluigi Mazzorana

Goodbye Amy.

Posted on: 23 July 2011 by Julian H
Originally Posted by Tony Lockhart:
A real shame really. A complete and utter waste.

Tony

Totally agree, tragic waste...

 

Such a talent

Posted on: 23 July 2011 by Franz K

May her tortured soul find peace

Posted on: 23 July 2011 by JamieL_v2

I should have looked here before posting in the 'music' room.

 

Sad.

Posted on: 23 July 2011 by Frank E

Baruch Dayan Emet

Posted on: 24 July 2011 by mickey
Originally Posted by Frank F:

Great voice, crazy character, predictable end??

 

If there is any justice, that prat from Baby Shambles should be next??

 

FF

What's he ever done to you to deserve that ?

Posted on: 24 July 2011 by Gale 401

I just hope it was quick.

RIP Amy.

 

Posted on: 24 July 2011 by Bruce Woodhouse

As somebody who was never touched by her music it just seems rather sad, and rather inevitable. I do find the reaction to her death somewhat overblown and with more than a whiff of commercial exploitation about it. I dare say the press will once again cover itself in glory, switching from sanctomonious villification to adulation at a stroke.

 

Lucian Freud died this week, his art meant more far more to me, but at least it seemed like a talent fulfilled who was ferociously painting almost to his end with the fire undimmed.

 

His Tate Britain retrospective of about 7 tears ago was astonishing, I could have stayed all day.

 

Bruce

Posted on: 25 July 2011 by Sister E.

The adulation is starting already.  She is quoted as being" by far and away the greatest female singer this country has ever produced" or words to that effect in the Guardian today , which is the biggest load of rubbish I've ever heard.  Certainly a talent, but a career which had hardly started - and please don't try and put her in the same category as Dusty Springfield and others,

 

Sister xx

Posted on: 25 July 2011 by mudwolf

A very good writeup on Amy in todays's LA Times by Randall Roberts.  About her unique voice and songs that came from her heart and life, not trying to be somebody else.  Sadly it all took too much out of her,  I'll look at her differently now.

Posted on: 25 July 2011 by Franz K
Originally Posted by Frank E:

Baruch Dayan Emet

Adonai natan vadonai lakach yehi shem adonai mevorach

Posted on: 26 July 2011 by Salmon Dave

27 - exactly the same age as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison.

Posted on: 26 July 2011 by Gale 401

Ellen Cohen made it to 32 but she was 27stone when she died.

Numbers.