Amy Winehouse Dead

loCAtek · Post by **loCAtek** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:03 am

Just found out, Winehouse inspired Lady Gaga's career
...that poor girl is so going to Hell.

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:24 pm

No illegal substances were found in British soul singer Amy Winehouse's body, her family said Tuesday, having received the results of toxicology tests on her remains.

Alcohol was discovered in the Grammy award-winning vocalist's system but it could not yet be determined whether it played a role in her death, the Winehouse family said in a statement.

The singer, who laid bare her struggles with drug and alcohol addictions in her music, notably in her biggest hit single "Rehab", was found dead at her home in Camden, north London, on July 23.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebri ... z1VtRmyhMc

In other news Keith Moon's family have now claimed there we no drugs in his blood stream when he died, Elvis's family has come out to state that there was no bacon in his bloodstream when the autopsy was done, and Kurt Cobain's family are denying rumours that shotgun pellets were found in his head.

Crackpot · Post by **Crackpot** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:26 pm

What head?

dales · Post by **dales** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 12:36 am

rimshot!

loCAtek · Post by **loCAtek** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:23 am

Um yea, she died of loneliness.

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:58 pm

You can't spend it when you're dead...

Amy Winehouse's Back to Black album has become the biggest-selling album in the UK in the 21st Century, the Official Charts Company (OCC) has revealed.

It said her 2006 second album had this week overtaken sales of James Blunt's 2005 work Back to Bedlam.

It had sold 3.26 million copies compared with Blunt's 3.25 million, the OCC said on Thursday.

Winehouse's Back to Black shot back to the top of the charts for three weeks following her death on 23 July.

Dido's No Angel - released in the UK in February 2001 - is the third best-selling album of the century with sales of 3.07 million.

On Wednesday, it was announced that Tony Bennett would introduce a tribute to Winehouse at this weekend's MTV Video Music Awards.

The pair recorded jazz standard Body and Soul together for Bennett's Duets II album, due for release on 20 September.

The song is also to be released as a single to help fund a foundation established by the Winehouse family to help people struggling with addiction.

Earlier this week Winehouse's family said toxicology results had shown that "no illegal substances" were in her system when she died.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14660787

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 12:19 pm

Alcohol can be a bad enough drug all by itself.

yrs,
rubato

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:59 pm

Amy Winehouse's death was the result of the singer drinking too much alcohol, a coroner has said.

A verdict of misadventure was recorded into the 27-year-old's death after an inquest heard she was more than five times the drink-drive limit.

Winehouse was found dead at her home in Camden, north London, on 23 July.

St Pancras coroner Suzanne Greenway said the "unintended consequence" of Winehouse drinking so much alcohol was her "sudden and unexpected death".

Three empty vodka bottles, two large and one small, were found at her flat, St Pancras Coroners Court heard.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15453517

The Hen · Post by **The Hen** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:01 pm

Huh, coroner?

I certainly thought her death was expected, not unexpected.

She couldn't have done much more to bring it on quicker.

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:13 pm

I believe that language was probably employed by the coroner to distinguish what happened here from deliberate suicide....

dales · Post by **dales** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:25 pm

RIP AMY WINEHOUSE

The Hen · Post by **The Hen** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:31 pm

Fiar point Jim.

And OMG, how sweet she was.

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:41 am

Gob wrote:
Amy Winehouse's death was the result of the singer drinking too much alcohol, a coroner has said.

A verdict of misadventure was recorded into the 27-year-old's death after an inquest heard she was more than five times the drink-drive limit.

Winehouse was found dead at her home in Camden, north London, on 23 July.

St Pancras coroner Suzanne Greenway said the "unintended consequence" of Winehouse drinking so much alcohol was her "sudden and unexpected death".

Three empty vodka bottles, two large and one small, were found at her flat, St Pancras Coroners Court heard.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15453517

Re: Amy Winehouse Dead

Postby rubato » Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:19 am
Alcohol can be a bad enough drug all by itself.

yrs,
rubato

5x the US limit is .40 g/Dl which is in the range to cause death.

yrs,
rubato

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:02 pm

A collection of 12 previously unreleased songs by Amy Winehouse are to be made available as an album on 5 December.

Lioness: Hidden Treasures mixes unreleased tracks, alternative versions of existing songs and "a couple of brand new Amy compositions".

Winehouse's collaborators Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson revisited recordings made by the singer for the release.

Amy's father Mitch has said the album is "a fitting tribute" to his daughter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/15522359

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:40 am

A posthumous album by Amy Winehouse, a rough and ready assortment of alternative versions of hits, unreleased tracks and covers, has been hailed as a poignant snapshot of the singer's troubled life.
Critics said that Lioness: Hidden Treasures perfectly reflects the chaotic final years of the artist, whose death in July aged 27 after years of drug and alcohol abuse shocked the music world.

"The random scrappiness of this collection of alternative takes, covers and sketchy new material is made poignant by the context in which it has been released," wrote critic Helen Brown in the UK's Daily Telegraph.

"And - as with that exposed and emotional pavement collage of bottles, candles, ashtrays, scrawled notes and battered guitars - it lays bare what made her both such a unique and such a troubled artist."

Her fans appear to agree - almost 100,000 copies have been sold since its release last Monday in Britain and the album is set to roar to number one at the weekend, according to the Official Charts Company.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/mus ... z1gHgUcaus

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:52 am

Translation - someone put together a bunch of tracks-in-progress in order to milk every last possible drop of revenue out of the dead girl.

loCAtek · Post by **loCAtek** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:59 am

...which came out better than Michael Jackson's much quicker- 'Immortal'.

Guinevere · Post by **Guinevere** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:50 am

The songs I've heard sound good, I plan to check out the album.

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Tue May 14, 2013 8:28 am

Only in retrospect and by finding odds and sods on youtube did I realise how fucking sexy she was..

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Tue May 14, 2013 12:21 pm

Great song. Good band. Winehouse could have done a good job with it, but not that day. It sounded like the band were trying to play over her at the end to get her to shut up the dumb caterwauling.

yrs,
rubato