Amy Don't Need No Rehab Anymore

[PhilKing]

Just heard that Amy Winehouse OD'd and died this afternoon.  It's a sad waste of talent as she had a great voice.  Just a shame she fell into drugs.

[Afghan Dave]

I'm not gonna be a hypocrite - I thought she was just another waste of space junkie.



Drugs are Baaaadd, m,kay...

[Dmoney]

I blame News Of The World. Probably hacked her phone and left messages telling her drugs are awesome. Andy Coulson was her dealer. It'll all come out.

[gwEm]

i'm with Phil, this is a real pity, but sadly inevitable. drugs are terrible things.

[AndyR]

That's sad. I saw her a few years ago on the telly, I didn't know much about her, but I think she'd already "made it" by then. Watching it I thought "WHAT a voice, and a presence... but, unless it's an act, looks like she might have problems in the future though...". I heard afterwards she already had a bit of reputation.

As far as I can remember, everything I heard about her after that was to do with her problems. Never heard/saw her perform like that again...

It's very sad, on the strength of what I saw, I do think she was very talented. But it's all gone now... I feel most sad for her - that no one was able to help her to help herself :(

[Dr. Stein]

Has the cause of death actually been determined? Obviously she has a reputation with drugs but last I heard the death was being treated as unexplained.

Maybe the silver lining is that some of the kids who thought of her as a role model might get a bit of a shock.

[Telerocker]

Very sad. Why people around her didn't take care of her.

[nfe]

A real shame. Just a young lassie.

It's a shame with todays media and in the advent of camera phones and whatnot that Hendrix is simply a legend and Winehouse is just a junkie.

[Elliot]

I don't quite get you.  Hendrix was not a junkie and he revolutionised guitar playing for all times, thus earning legendary status.  Amy Winehouse was a burned out junkie with a moderate degree of talent who would have been long forgotten but for her tabloid antics.  The better analogy surely is Janis Joplin.

[mikeluke]

I think that lots of people DID try to help her but ultimately she chose to go her own way.

Personally I find it difficult to find much sympathy - people use the word 'tragedy' but when you see more than 90 people lose their lives in Norway just because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, somehow AW just seems somewhat of an irrelevance....

[Philly Q]

Seems to me she was someone who had some talent and perhaps the potential to achieve greater things, but got vastly overhyped (just like Joss Stone, Adele, Duffy and all these other solo singers who've emerged the last few years).  

And then she self-destructed, which became the story instead of the music and just added to the hype - "oh just think what she might have done if only....", when in fact she might have done nothing at all.  And now we'll never know either way.

They couldn't save her but still, her father got to make an album out of it all, eh?

[nfe]

I don't quite get you.  Hendrix was not a junkie and he revolutionised guitar playing for all times, thus earning legendary status.  Amy Winehouse was a burned out junkie with a moderate degree of talent who would have been long forgotten but for her tabloid antics.  The better analogy surely is Janis Joplin.

He was a famous musician who caused his own death through over-indulgence. The same might be said of plenty other 60's and 70's stars, and indeed 80's ones. The only difference is that they didn't have hangers on in the digital age to feed a media circus, otherwise all of their efforts would have been overshadowed by their partying and scandal too.

[Dmoney]

In term of impact on music in general I'd say there isn't that much of a comparison between her and Hendrix. She might have been the big voice forming part of some kind of soul revival, but It's not like she was revolutionising music or playing in the way Hendrix did. Hendrix might not have had hangers on feeding the media circus, but thinking about it, it's almost like the facilities for help with addiction have increased along with the media's desire to know gorey details about celebrities dependencies. I guess if Hendrix wanted to go cold turkey the help and understanding available at the time would be somewhat inferior to what we have now?

Give it up by not taking it up. That's my message kids!

[Afghan Dave]

...people use the word 'tragedy' but when you see more than 90 people lose their lives in Norway just because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, somehow AW just seems somewhat of an irrelevance....

My thoughts exactly!

Also, 2 "good for the period" albums that don't hold a place among the all time greats + a trainwreck of a life do not a legend make.

She was a poor facsimile of "legend"  
 

[Afghan Dave]

still, her father got to make an album out of it all, eh?

That man always creeped me out... he just loved the attention he got by reflection.

I bet the royalties/interview requests he will receive and accept in the next year will allow him space to grieve.  :roll: