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Amy Winehouse dead at 27.

Amazingly, it was on wikipedia first...

I guess we don't need Gil Grissom to tell us this'll be a drink/drugs overdose thing. Y'know, I don't believe I've ever heard a song of hers - only know her from reports of being pissed and stoned. Same goes for that Pete Doherty as well.

I'd never have pegged her as 27 - doubtless a heart and liver age of about 95....

She's most famous for "Rehab," (which as others pointed out, started out as ironic, but now just seems tragic) but her take on "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" (from the Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason soundtrack) shows, at least in my opinion, that she had an amazing talent.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ludxpkyrab0[/yt]
 
I don't wish death on anyone.

But after I sat in my Uncle's hospital room and watch a neurologist essentially declare him brain dead from multiple seizures (which had been an issue since age six due to an accident) yesterday, I have little sympathy for someone who simply couldn't control herself.

It might be cold, but that's the way I feel.
 
Yeah, somewhere Roger Ebert is having about the same reaction to this as I am.
 
Very sad. She had a knockout voice and (once) a lot of potential. Stupid and wasteful way to go.
 
Yep, totally worth someone dying.

Glad you agree.

You are an awful human being.


I don't wish death on anyone.

But after I sat in my Uncle's hospital room and watch a neurologist essentially declare him brain dead from multiple seizures (which had been an issue since age six due to an accident) yesterday, I have little sympathy for someone who simply couldn't control herself.

It might be cold, but that's the way I feel.

Being indifferent about the death of a celebrity or someone you don't know is one thing, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Rejoicing in that person's death is something very different.
 
Sad, shocking, but sadly not surprising. What a waste. The dreaded '27 Club' (Morrison, Joplin, Hendrix, Cobain, Brian Jones) gets another member.

And anyone who gloats at the death of a troubled 27 year old woman, who left behind not just an impressive body of work but a grieving family, is a total piece of shit.
 
Dammit, I had it down for 6 months from now. Guess I'll loose that tenner....

In all seriousness though, this is sad, but hardly shocking.
 
It's such a waste. I don't really want to post any pictures, but if you look for "before and after" photos you get a beautiful young woman, next to a picture of someone who just about looks like a prostitute.

Terrible what drugs addiction/overdoses can do. RIP.
 
God I had a joke about this and her first single but I think it might be a bit inappropriate. I will say though that ever since that single she really did have a lot of issues and it's a shame she couldn't turn her life around.
 
Sad news. Back to Black and Frank were both great albums. I hadn't heard her name in a couple of years, really, so thought she might have been turning things around quietly. Guess it was just too much damage done too soon. RIP. :(
 
Her death at a very young age was not exactly the shock of the century considering what she did to herself and her career was essentially over for years now (even a week before her death, I had a funny feeling we'd seen the last of her), but it seems cold to gloat over her tragically premature death, since she clearly had genuine mental health issues that weren't her fault, massively exacerbating her addiction problems and magnified again by the large amounts of cash at her disposal. And look at the company she kept (Peter Doherty, who's a weirdo junkie himself).
 
Just found out this morning.

While it's tragic, I'm not the least bit surprised. It's a shame that she couldn't get her life under control.
 
Amazingly, it was on wikipedia first...

I guess we don't need Gil Grissom to tell us this'll be a drink/drugs overdose thing. Y'know, I don't believe I've ever heard a song of hers - only know her from reports of being pissed and stoned. Same goes for that Pete Doherty as well.

I'd never have pegged her as 27 - doubtless a heart and liver age of about 95....

She's most famous for "Rehab," (which as others pointed out, started out as ironic, but now just seems tragic) but her take on "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" (from the Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason soundtrack) shows, at least in my opinion, that she had an amazing talent.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ludxpkyrab0[/yt]

I actually had to stop my show last night (I play 80s new wave/alt rock at a community radio station) and play this.
 
God I had a joke about this and her first single but I think it might be a bit inappropriate. I will say though that ever since that single she really did have a lot of issues and it's a shame she couldn't turn her life around.

She had singles long before that one.
 
Wonder if her death have anything to do with her being booed off stage last month for being drunk and forgeting the words to her songs?.
 
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