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Joined: April 27 2004
Location: Peru
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Posted: July 23 2011 at 17:38
I'm not a fan of her music, but sure he had a great voice.
It really shocked me, I knew her condition was deteriorating too fast (Apart from the addiction, she had emphysema), it's sad, she entered to the 27 years club with people like:
Jim Morrison
Janis Joplin
Jimmy Hendrix
Curt Cobain (Nirvana)
Brian Jones (Rolling Stones)
Ron Mc'Kernan (Grateful Dead)
Helmut Kollen (Triumvirat)
Gary Thain (Uriah Heep)
Alan Wilson (Canned Heat)
Pete Ham (Bad Finger
Shanon Hoon (Blind Melon)
Steven Gaines (Lynyrd Skyynyrd)
Kristen Pfaff (Hole)
Les Harvey (Stone the Crows)
Robert Johnson (Blues musician who started the tragic list in 1938)
Joined: March 20 2005
Location: New Zealand
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Posted: July 23 2011 at 17:58
Really gutted to hear this news. I loved Amy Winehouse's music and her voice. I was hoping for a come-back but sadly not to be. Now her struggle to find happiness in her life is over. God Bless! RIP Amy
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence"
- Robert Fripp
Joined: October 21 2005
Location: Terra Brasilis
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Points: 12288
Posted: July 23 2011 at 18:26
Not a fan of her voice, her repertoire and her lifestyle but it's sad indeed. I hope you find peace, Amy.
Anyway, I'm really anger with the quick change of focus by the press. The tragedy in Norway needs reflection and the media is dealing with this case as it were only a sensation to be highlighted - not a surprise since media owners and bosses are basically are made with the same stuff of the shooter.
Joined: December 23 2009
Location: Emerald City
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Posted: July 23 2011 at 18:36
Very talented voice, that soulful sound she had was something special. Not many around now that can sing like her, tragic she could not get her life in order.
Joined: October 16 2006
Location: FL, USA
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Posted: July 23 2011 at 23:05
Negoba wrote:
Why is it so often 27 years old?
It seems to be like a threshold, like the age where bodies that have been abused for too long finally give up... Probably most of these artists started abusing drugs or alcohol at around 16-18 or even a few years later, they achieve fame money and power, and they can't last more than a few years, "peaking" at 27...
Joined: July 02 2008
Location: Australia
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Points: 14258
Posted: July 24 2011 at 06:54
She was a deeply disturbed soul
Her songs communicated a deep inner sadness.
I read, while being interviewed by Spin magazine, she broke off talking to carve her then-boyfriend Blake Fielder-Civil's name into her stomach with a shard of mirror.
Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
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Posted: July 24 2011 at 11:20
The T wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
Wasn't her whole claim to fame songs about drug abuse?
Brian that's two totally useless posts in 24 hours... Come on.
What the hell were you expecting from me anyway???
Try this one on, we all have difficulties in our lives. If our ultimate destiny is to become famous and die young, so be it. I will do neither and have myself a good time not doing it.
Just make sure you do it right the first time because nothing is worse than being a suicide chump.
Edited by Slartibartfast - July 24 2011 at 11:57
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
Joined: January 06 2008
Location: London, UK
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Posted: July 25 2011 at 05:30
I wasn't too keen on her music myself, but that's because it just wasn't to my tastes rather than it being objectively bad - I could tell she had a fearsome talent on her.
Probably the saddest part of this story for me is how incredibly unsurprised I was when I read the news. It's been, what, five years since her last album, and she spent most of that getting more attention for her drug problems than for her music.
The tabloid headlines about it this morning are absolutely disgusting.
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