brownie Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 It's always sad to see someone talented waste one's talent. Hope she'll find peace now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swinging Swede Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 And at 27 to boot. She will now be another member of the famous 27 Club: Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 Very sad. But she has nobody to blame but herself. did she blame anyone but herself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave James Posted July 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 Wow, what a tragic waste of talent. I'm extraordinarily saddened to hear this. I thought she was remarkably gifted and actually had some serious respect for the tradition. A far, far cry from the auto-tuned hacks that pass for singers these days. It's hard to believe she could drink herself to death at such a young age, but if she was mixing booze and drugs, she was rolling the dice. It was only a matter of time. R.I.P. girl. Where are your eyes that were so wild, hurroo, hurroo Where are your eyes that were so wild, hurroo, hurroo Where are your eyes that were so wild When our hearts you so beguiled Why did ye run from you and the child Oh Amy, we hardly knew ye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Goren. Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 Terrible news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jul/23/amy-winehouse-dies-aged-27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 CNN is carrying the story now as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
save0904 Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 The next one at 27, very sad news. RIP Amy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Red Menace Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 Very sad news. She clearly had talent and a spark of soul, and it's easy when you're an addict to think you'll lose that if you give up drugs forever. (Just one of the myriad ways in which your addict mind can feed you all kinds of jive to sustain your disease.) Sadly, you lose it all in one way or another anyway if you can't get off or stay off the train to oblivion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 BBC obit Sad news, but not unexpected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 (edited) Like the wasteful/senseless death of Kenny Kirkland, I'm a lot more mad than I am sad... don't know that I heard "greatness" in her, but there was definitely a sense of great potential that kept me interested (she had a great voice for broken-beat remixes, for whatever that's worth, and I was hoping that at some point she might engage the idiom directly...see below & imagine a live, engaged & energetic Winehouse working that groove...wow...)), at least until she made it clear that she herself had other priorities. Oh well, here's to life going on. Edited July 23, 2011 by JSngry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 Damn. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 RIP, they were playing some of her music at the bookstore, did not make the connection, very sad indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 (edited) Sad, but not surprising. Edited July 23, 2011 by Hardbopjazz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 The disease is cunning, baffling, powerful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 The disease is cunning, baffling, powerful. as is life, which is how the disease works it's magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 Kinda messes up her dad's scheduled (current?) gig in NYC (he's a would-be jazz-blues singer). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 The disease is cunning, baffling, powerful. as is life, which is how the disease works it's magic. Someone thinks they're clean and sober, they say they'll never touch that shit again, they have learned their lesson...then suddenly they're at it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BERIGAN Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 And at 27 to boot. She will now be another member of the famous 27 Club: Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse. Was just thinking about that when I saw her age. Very sad. Also never understand why "People" find such humor in the fact someone is an uncontrolled addict... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 She had it comin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 As I see it, the really sad news is not that she died, but that she didn't live. Did this final chapter surprise anyone here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 As I see it, the really sad news is not that she died, but that she didn't live. Did this final chapter surprise anyone here? not really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted July 23, 2011 Report Share Posted July 23, 2011 Yep. Gal can sing. Pity she's going to be a rock n' roll casualty... Remember, you heard it here first. RIP. Not that it was hard to see coming... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Her unnecessarily short life perhaps highlights the longevity of Keith Richards, who I gather did everything she did ten or twenty times over, but inexplicably lived to tell about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alankin Posted July 24, 2011 Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 And let's not forget Graham Parsons, also 27. He spent some time hanging with Keith Richards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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