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July 23, 2011

Unexpectedly, Amy Winehouse Is Dead
— Ace

Even a straight news story about her death has to acknowledge the elephant room: She's been a top draft choice for the Dead Pool for years.

Only the most sweet-souled people could not think to themselves, upon hearing of the next drugged/drunken scandal, "She'll be dead in two years."

And so she is.

It was not a complete surprise, but the news was still a huge shock for millions around the world. The size of Winehouse's appeal was reflected in the extraordinary range of people paying tribute as they heard the news...

Addiction consumed her:

...
But in the end, the music was overshadowed by fame, and by Winehouse's demons. Tabloids lapped up the erratic stage appearances, drunken fights, stints in hospital and rehab clinics. Performances became shambling, stumbling train wrecks, watched around the world on the Internet.
Last month, Winehouse canceled her European comeback tour after she swayed and slurred her way through barely recognizable songs in her first show in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Booed and jeered off stage, she flew home and her management said she would take time off to recover.

In her first introduction to the public -- "I don't wanna go to rehab, no, no no" -- she told everyone exactly how she'd die.

I suppose it's still sad, but she seemed to be courting death for years. She finally won her man.

Posted by: Ace at 01:24 PM | Comments (94)
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1 I am sure a movie about it is already being finagled. What hollywood hooker will play her I wonder.

Posted by: mbruce at July 23, 2011 01:27 PM (Fr8N6)

2 Somewhat more notably, Gen. Shalikashvili, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is dead at age 74.

Guess which you'll hear more about.

^{Oh, and F--- Nevada.}

Posted by: DarkLord lives at the intersection of religion and Science! at July 23, 2011 01:27 PM (R9m37)

3 "She's been a top draft choice for the Dead Pool for years."
Does this mean Lady Gaga moves up as a lottery pick?

Posted by: chazmartel at July 23, 2011 01:28 PM (OV2xF)

4 A few great songs, a lot of filler (well-performed, but filler nonetheless) and a spectacular flameout. And now she'll be overrated forever.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at July 23, 2011 01:29 PM (a5ljo)

5 Amy, Welcome to the 27 Club

Posted by: Jimi, Jim, Janis, Brian, & Kurt at July 23, 2011 01:29 PM (4RFKN)

6 Not terribly surprising but sad nonethless. RIP Amy. I hope you finally rid yourself of the demons.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 23, 2011 01:29 PM (Z71Vg)

7 Similar with Cobain.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 23, 2011 01:30 PM (r7k7z)

Only the most sweet-souled naive people could not think to themselves, upon hearing of the next drugged/drunken scandal, "She'll be dead in two years."

FIFY.

and btw (shameless repost): Norway TV2 (translated): Shooting suspect released video, manifesto on the web - via @stian_pride http://bit.ly/paukWD

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 23, 2011 01:31 PM (c0A3e)

9 I wonder how long it took them to film that video. In several clips she looks like she barely knows where she is.

Posted by: AmishDude at July 23, 2011 01:31 PM (73tyQ)

10 3 "She's been a top draft choice for the Dead Pool for years."
Does this mean Lady Gaga moves up as a lottery pick?

Posted by: chazmartel at July 23, 2011 05:28 PM (OV2xF)

Nope. Charlie Sheen.

Posted by: AmishDude at July 23, 2011 01:32 PM (73tyQ)

11 If there's a rock and roll heaven, you know they got a helluva band... ...but they're all passed out so you ain't gonna hear nuthin', sucka.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 23, 2011 01:32 PM (UlUS4)

12 ghoul pool had her at 5/1 odds, which is still waaaaaay better than lindsey.

Posted by: infidelphia at July 23, 2011 01:33 PM (kKWmw)

13 I like her. She had a lot of talent. It was a shame to see how drugs had changed her. What a waste.

Posted by: ahem at July 23, 2011 01:33 PM (48zRF)

14 Whoa #5, they all died at 27? Crazy.

Ian Curtis died at 23. Mind you, with him, the media discovered him only a couple months before he died. I have real questions as to how come his bandmates didn't know what was going on.

It seems that rock stars don't have real friends, which I find depressing.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 23, 2011 01:34 PM (r7k7z)

15 Needle and the Spoon

Posted by: Lynyrd Skynyrd at July 23, 2011 01:35 PM (kU+x1)

16 Amy was a great singer, and that's how she should be remembered.

Posted by: Mystery Meat at July 23, 2011 01:36 PM (9AJat)

17 >>>It seems that rock stars don't have real friends, which I find depressing. A junkie with money will write off the real friends in favor of new (bought and paid) junkie "friends."

Posted by: ace at July 23, 2011 01:37 PM (nj1bB)

18 Kratos #8, thanks for that.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 23, 2011 01:37 PM (r7k7z)

19 Bah. Another piece of shit overdose who ended up with more money than brains. I put Lindsey Lohan at #2, after my cousin's grandmother. Who has been my number #1 pick for the last 20 years. She can't disappoint me forever. (And I swear I will drive cross-state with a hammer and stake just to fucking make sure.)

Posted by: LibertarianJim at July 23, 2011 01:38 PM (Z/VU4)

20 Eh. A pained look is trying to cross my face, but failing miserably.

Posted by: g3cko at July 23, 2011 01:44 PM (sF+C2)

21 Sad thing about this is that nobody had her in Stoaty's deathpool. Unbelieveable.

_{^{17
>>>It seems that rock stars don't have real friends, which I find depressing.

A junkie with money will write off the real friends in favor of new (bought and paid) junkie "friends."}}

_{^{Posted by: ace at July 23, 2011 05:37 PM (nj1bB)}}

Lot's of times the stars get rid of those friends because they try to keep them away from the shit. See Elvis. Then the new friends let them do anything that they want because they don't want to be shown the door and get off the gravy train. See Elvis.

Sad that Elvis' last words were probably "Sonny if I don't pinch this loaf off I'm gonna have a heart attack."

Posted by: MrCaniac at July 23, 2011 01:45 PM (eKuOw)

22 A lot of this is also that serious mental illness often strikes in the late teens/early 20s. So they get rich and famous before they go crazy, which is not a good combination cause then they have the money to avoid the consequences of their craziness. A buddy of mine is a psychiatrist and he often advises people not to marry anybody under 25. If they make it past 25 without serious mental illness, they are good to go. But that a "quirky", "creative" chick at 20 might well be clinically nutso by 25. Rock stars are selected for youth as much as talent, so they can produce some great output before their mind breaks down. The drugs are often the person trying to self-medicate -- which just accelerates the mental breakdown. This happens in sports, too, but less so because you have to perform well for months at a time. Musicians (and actors to a lesser degree) can produce genius for a day or a week at a time, and be nutball crazy the rest of the time, and still become rich and famous.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 01:47 PM (QcFbt)

23 Amy who?

Posted by: drolmorg at July 23, 2011 01:47 PM (QygYK)

Anyone is lucky to have more than one real friend.

Posted by: garrett at July 23, 2011 01:50 PM (kU+x1)

25 >>A buddy of mine is a psychiatrist and he often advises people not to marry anybody under 25. If they make it past 25 without serious mental illness, they are good to go. But that a "quirky", "creative" chick at 20 might well be clinically nutso by 25.

But the sex is always incredible, you know?

Posted by: The Cycle of Abuse at July 23, 2011 01:51 PM (SMqnS)

26 Suck it, Bitches!

Posted by: A Vigoda at July 23, 2011 01:52 PM (bbJJG)

A buddy of mine is a psychiatrist

That's almost like a real doctor!

Posted by: garrett at July 23, 2011 01:52 PM (kU+x1)

28 Fantastic talent who couldn't deal with life unless she had a needle in her vein. Yup, drugs are glamorous aren't they? Amy didn't have to die, she chose to. RIP.

Posted by: mpfs at July 23, 2011 01:52 PM (8SGNM)

29 The more a profession requires daily high performance, the fewer crazy people will succeed at it. Professions that allow periodic, intermittent high performance (music, acting, writing) allow more crazy people to succeed. The 9-5 stable job thing can be a drag for everybody, but it's really, really hard for crazy people. Also stable relationships. Stable anything really.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at July 23, 2011 01:54 PM (QcFbt)

30 what did she sing about...let me guess....pop culture values and juvenile angst, thinly disguised as insight?

Posted by: Bloviating Ass at July 23, 2011 01:55 PM (RqsWy)

31 Just look to the disaster that is called Whitney Houston. Incredible set of pipes, gorgeous, etc., look at her now.

Posted by: mpfs at July 23, 2011 01:58 PM (8SGNM)

32 I just heard about a cousin of mine who died in a halfway house about three days ago at age 37. No cause of death yet but presumably o/d. I hadn't seen him in about twenty years and didn't even know he was in the same city as me, now he's getting shipped back home across country in an urn.

Posted by: Airquote Sarctag at July 23, 2011 02:00 PM (yaV2e)

33 31

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Posted by: Rick James at July 23, 2011 02:00 PM (RqsWy)

34 I see Lindsay Lohan playing her. If they can keep her alive long enough

Posted by: Frank G at July 23, 2011 02:02 PM (1rPxL)

35 30what did she sing about...let me guess....pop culture values and juvenile angst, thinly disguised as insight?

Posted by: Bloviating Ass at July 23, 2011 05:55 PM (RqsWy)

Actually...no.

Posted by: joejm65 at July 23, 2011 02:03 PM (UZuc4)

36 Wanted Dead or Alive

Ah, that's the movie I keep remembering as a Schwarzenegger film but it wasn't in his filmography. I remember that I saw it in the theater, but the only thing could I remembered was the ending.

Posted by: toby928™ at July 23, 2011 02:05 PM (GTbGH)

37 crap wrong thread

Posted by: toby928™ at July 23, 2011 02:06 PM (GTbGH)

38 pffffft who gives a flying turd what she sang about, she was a dumb shit kid with 0 character or type of wisdom. another shambling artist acting as if he/she is experiencing anything more profound than the rest of us.

id rather watch another episode of 'lockdown' while they carry on about this stupid ass.

Posted by: str8 outta at July 23, 2011 02:06 PM (KcmZP)

39 Pretty decent voice. I had avoided her music because, frankly, she looked skanky to me. Too much success plus a self destructive personality is like a death sentence, self administered. Sad.

A man like Ringo got a great empty hole right through the middle of him. He can never kill enough or steal enough or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.
What does he need?
Revenge.
For what?
Bein' born.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 23, 2011 02:08 PM (ENKCw)

40 You know who this helps?

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at July 23, 2011 02:08 PM (JEvSn)

41 That's almost like a real doctor!

You said it!

Posted by: a podiatrist at July 23, 2011 02:09 PM (ndlFj)

Rehab, and working a good recovery plan can suck. But it appears the alternative is much worse.

Talented and Famous, found dead and alone. Bummer. Just for today, I have something she could never, ever get.

Posted by: hutch1200 at July 23, 2011 02:15 PM (0D4bx)

43 This is a prime example of why I'm for legalizing drugs. I figure after another generation or so, all the liberal hippies will OD and maybe even California can be saved.

Posted by: USNA1985 at July 23, 2011 02:16 PM (U3TDy)

44 Rockers have age 27 a an almost mythic age. Janis, Jimi, Jim M, etc. If you party hard, and are expected to die, age 27 is when it usually happens. I cannot help but think it is a self fulfilling prophesy.

As for her music, I have never heard it that I know of. I stick with classical (Bach), jazz (Bird) and country (Guy Clark, Robert Earl Keen, Billy Joe Shaver). Anyway, it is a shame to see someone piss away their life at a young age.

Posted by: NuclearJim at July 23, 2011 02:18 PM (NaIQb)

45 Cripes! I forgot Gram! Here is a list I found.

*jimi hendrix (see "barbituates") (1970)
*janis joplin (see "heroin") (1970)
*jim morrison (see "alcohol") (1971)
*brian jones (see "drowning") (1969)
*kurt cobain (see "heroin") (1994)
*robert johnson (see "poison") (193

*al "blind owl" wilson (see "heroin") (1970)
*gram parsons (see "barbituates") (1973)
*ron "pigpen" mckernan (see "alcohol") (1973)

Posted by: NuclearJim at July 23, 2011 02:20 PM (NaIQb)

46 "The size of Winehouse's appeal was reflected in the extraordinary range of people paying tribute as they heard the news..."

Or maybe an extraordinary number of people had an extraordinary amount of time to formulate their condolences since an ordinary inevitability was so extraordinarily evident. Absolutely no one is surprised, her appeal magnified because merely performing in between tripping seemed such an accomplishment regardless of her musical talent.

It's sad in that her demons won. Worse, and admittedly I didn't follow her at all, she seemed to keep laying out the red carpet for them. How tragic, really, is it when one gets to choose one's life and death?

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 23, 2011 02:26 PM (r4t7/)

47 This Amy Winehouse, I've only heard of her, never heard her. Was she any good at music or was she just famous for being famous?

Posted by: MaxMBJ at July 23, 2011 02:29 PM (deaac)

48 Eminem talked about friends that encourage your drug problems on his last album, Recovery.

"FuckinÂ’ drug dealers hang around me like yes men....
ItÂ’s in their best interest to protect their investment"

He seems to have avoided his demons, but most musicians don't.

Posted by: Crazee at July 23, 2011 02:35 PM (H3ujh)

49 Who gives a shit? How many other junkies died today?? Yesterday??

Big fucking deal.

Posted by: Portnoy at July 23, 2011 02:42 PM (KROfR)

50 10 3 "She's been a top draft choice for the Dead Pool for years."
Does this mean Lady Gaga moves up as a lottery pick?

Posted by: chazmartel at July 23, 2011 05:28 PM (OV2xF)

Nope. Charlie Sheen.

Posted by: AmishDude at July 23, 2011 05:32 PM (73tyQ)

No way. Charlie's gonna live to a ripe old age.

Lindsay Lohan, on the other hand...

Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 02:46 PM (/gOMq)

51 23 Amy who?

Posted by: drolmorg at July 23, 2011 05:47 PM (QygYK)

Yeah... was she really that big in the US? I'm not exactly plugged in these days, but I can't think of a song she may have written/performed. The only reason I know about her at all is the slow-motion train wreck that just ended.

Posted by: Ace's liver at July 23, 2011 02:51 PM (/gOMq)

52 Unexpectedly?

Yeah, I'd hit it.

Posted by: Fritz at July 23, 2011 02:55 PM (p2IBw)

"This Amy Winehouse, I've only heard of her, never heard her. Was she any good at music or was she just famous for being famous?"

Dunno. I have seriously never heard of her. Of course I never heard of Paris Hilton, Lady Gaga, Lindsey Lohan, or that fat model Anna Nicole that married the old billionaire either until they had been around for years or died. Why would anyone give a shit about these strumpets?

Posted by: drolmorg at July 23, 2011 02:56 PM (QygYK)

54 This is why I liked to listen to her sing.

"Love Is A Losing Game"

http://tinyurl.com/373oucc

Posted by: mpfs at July 23, 2011 03:04 PM (3TjSM)

55 Let's put it this way. If you are a druggie like Amy Winehouse, your chances of riding a needle "outahere" before age 90 are a hell of a lot better than your chances of riding that needle if you live on Death Row in California. Now if you live on Death Row in Texas, you and Amy were going to have a neck and neck race as to who rides the needle first. Looks like she beat you Pancho.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 23, 2011 03:07 PM (3ESDJ)

56 "Love Is A Losing Game"

http://tinyurl.com/373oucc

Posted by: mpfs at July 23, 2011 07:04 PM (3TjSM)

I never followed her music but that was nice. Thanks.

Posted by: Tami at July 23, 2011 03:16 PM (X6akg)

57 The ex-husband was a piece of shit who never did a fucking thing to help her.

Posted by: mpfs at July 23, 2011 03:17 PM (3TjSM)

58 Nobody's said it yet, so:

Guess she should've gone to rehab!

(I denounce myself)

Posted by: Trimegistus at July 23, 2011 03:22 PM (mTjOC)

59 R.I.P. Amy.

Posted by: ErikW at July 23, 2011 03:23 PM (6zHn2)

60 Before her addiction, she was a very attractive woman.

Posted by: mike at July 23, 2011 03:25 PM (BT0/s)

61 Who is this person again?

Posted by: pinchy migra at July 23, 2011 03:51 PM (pEKxc)

62 I love listening to her songs, her voice was so expressive. What a waste of a young woman with a genuine talent.

Posted by: dulce at July 23, 2011 03:58 PM (THMtB)

63 Never heard of her until today.

Posted by: Jawknee at July 23, 2011 04:07 PM (fK55S)

64 In her first introduction to the public -- "I don't wanna go to rehab, no, no no" -- she told everyone exactly how she'd die.

It's worth noting that she did do a stint in rehab, but as it turns out, little came of it.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at July 23, 2011 04:10 PM (UF15p)

65 She had a unique, old-school voice. Gorgeous. A human life is gone and the talent with it. Sheen and Lohan have no talent.

Posted by: Marybel at July 23, 2011 04:15 PM (Hic+o)

5 Amy, Welcome to the 27 Club

Posted by: Jimi, Jim, Janis, Brian, & Kurt at July 23, 2011 05:29 PM (4RFKN)

Ironic, isn't it?

Posted by: Keef Richards at July 23, 2011 04:21 PM (tSxym)

67 Fantastic talent who couldn't deal with life unless she had a needle in her vein. Yup, drugs are glamorous aren't they? Amy didn't have to die, she chose to. RIP.

Posted by: mpfs at July 23, 2011 05:52 PM (8SGNM)

This gets to the root of it. I liked her music quite a bit but she obviously liked getting high a lot more than anything else in life. I mean she even had a hit based on her unwillingness to get straight. So the fuckheads, especially the libs, who call this "A TRAGEDY": STFU & GTFO. A tragedy is when some young kid gets shot by thugs while minding his own business, or gets lukemia. Winehouse chose her demise; hear that word, cocksuckers, CHOICE. She was a fucking adult and chose to engage in extremely self destructive behavior. The only choice the libs want to celebrate is abortion (I'm not a right to life fanatic, btw; just an observer of dumbfuckery). Well fuck you; celebrate her choice of self destruction bitchezz.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 23, 2011 04:31 PM (zsvKP)

68 home of smug

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Posted by: Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Dominion Audiobook at July 23, 2011 05:26 PM (3y6Pp)

70 Society made her do it.

Posted by: Deepok Chopra at July 23, 2011 05:32 PM (RqsWy)

71 Does it make me a bad guy to say I couldn't give two shits about this? She chose to put that needle in her arm, no one made her do it.

And why call it a tragedy? Why is it sad? This wasn't some kind of accident, this was her fucking goal in life! She wanted this, she got it. Congratulations, ya dumb fuckin' bitch!

And good fucking riddance. One less trashy skanky crackhead clogging up the news with her fucking bullshit.

Posted by: Robert at July 23, 2011 05:34 PM (4q6A5)

72 What, drugs were involved? Wow, I would have thought Ms Winehouse would have gone out cage fighting polar bears or smoke jumping into California wild fires. I'm flabbergasted by this.

Posted by: UGAdawg at July 23, 2011 05:53 PM (H6JHE)

73 73

You're a real piece of work.

Posted by: mpfs at July 23, 2011 05:53 PM (3TjSM)

74 _{^{45
Cripes! I forgot Gram! Here is a list I found.

*jimi hendrix (see "barbituates") (1970)

*janis joplin (see "heroin") (1970)

*jim morrison (see "alcohol") (1971)

*brian jones (see "drowning") (1969)

*kurt cobain (see "heroin") (1994)

*robert johnson (see "poison") (193} ^{*al "blind owl" wilson (see "heroin") (1970)

*gram parsons (see "barbituates") (1973)

*ron "pigpen" mckernan (see "alcohol") (1973)}}

_{^{Posted by: NuclearJim at July 23, 2011 06:20 PM (NaIQb)}}

Not to be picky here, but shouldn't Cobain be (see "shotgun")?

Posted by: MrCaniac at July 23, 2011 05:58 PM (eKuOw)

75 This says a lot about her talent, and her devils: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebf171vP74k

Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at July 23, 2011 06:04 PM (NHeC0)

76 Amazing voice, really remarkable, she hadn't taken off in America yet, but England knew her well. And yes, it is a tragedy. That word doesn't let her off the hook. Losing something wonderful is a tragedy, even if its owner threw it away. If Van Gogh had shredded all of his paintings when he went nuts, that would have been a tragedy too. Wouldn't make him less of an a-hole for doing it.

Posted by: Splunge at July 23, 2011 07:22 PM (2IW5Q)

77 *jimi hendrix (see "barbituates") (1970)
*janis joplin (see "heroin") (1970)
*jim morrison (see "alcohol") (1971)
*brian jones (see "drowning") (1969)
*kurt cobain (see "heroin") (1994)
*robert johnson (see "poison") (193
*al "blind owl" wilson (see "heroin") (1970)
*gram parsons (see "barbituates") (1973)
*ron "pigpen" mckernan (see "alcohol") (1973)

This list is seriously old. One could add the lead guys from Gin Blossoms, Blind Melon, and, I think, Sublime.

Posted by: Splunge at July 23, 2011 07:24 PM (2IW5Q)

78 Great voice, but she really needed to get her act together, unfortunately she didn't. Sad to hear of her passing.

Posted by: Douchetastico the Wonder Dog at July 23, 2011 08:54 PM (uugwc)

79 Great talent, once-in-a-generation voice (she was singled out in her early teens, IIRC for jazz stardom -- everybody knew she was the Next One), but drugs are the devil, man...

Check out her talent from 2006 (before she got too bad) as she puts her acoustic spin on the Zutons' great song "Valerie."

Posted by: Bender Bending Rodriguez at July 23, 2011 09:17 PM (1H47k)

80 And I found my favorite TV performance of hers. Even she knew not to be too fucked up for Mr. Parkinson's show... She did "My Tears Dry On Their Own" live on Parkie, a song she co-wrote with Ashford and Simpson.

Posted by: Bender Bending Rodriguez at July 23, 2011 09:39 PM (1H47k)

Sad that Elvis' last words were probably "Sonny if I don't pinch this loaf off I'm gonna have a heart attack."

Posted by: MrCaniac at July 23, 2011 05:45 PM (eKuOw)

Elvis would still be alive today if he were a mathematician instead of a Rock and Roll singer. He would have been able to work out his problems with a pencil.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 24, 2011 05:32 AM (hbAPu)

82 35 30what did she sing about...let me guess....pop culture values and juvenile angst, thinly disguised as insight?

Posted by: Bloviating Ass at July 23, 2011 05:55 PM (RqsWy)

Actually...no.

Posted by: joejm65 at July 23, 2011 06:03 PM (UZuc4)

This is what made me much sadder than if it were Lady Gaga. Amy Winehouse actually had talent.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 24, 2011 05:36 AM (hbAPu)

83 48Eminem talked about friends that encourage your drug problems on his last album, Recovery.

"FuckinÂ’ drug dealers hang around me like yes men....
ItÂ’s in their best interest to protect their investment"

He seems to have avoided his demons, but most musicians don't.
Posted by: Crazee at July 23, 2011 06:35 PM (H3ujh) Eminem's lost his street cred, Yo

Posted by: Eminem's Pusher at July 24, 2011 05:40 AM (hbAPu)

bender @ 82: That video gives up a great representation of Winehouse at her best. True artist is right: Tony Bennett had lined her up for a another of his collaboration recording sessions in September.

Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at July 24, 2011 06:19 AM (NHeC0)

Underneath all the surface outrageousness, Gaga has tons of talent - great voice, good songwriter, great live performer. People who confidently declare otherwise are only exposing their own ignorance of her. Winehouse had a unique, old-school yet still modern sounding voice. She put out two albums (the last was five years ago) that generated a few great songs, but she could never pull herself together enough to be a consistently good performer or to produce another studio album. Her lasting fame came only from her unrelenting, unrepentent self-destructive drug abuse. Contrast that with Gaga who told Howard Stern just last week that her own hard drug use was behind her and she referred to cocaine as the devil.

Posted by: Zooropa at July 24, 2011 06:47 AM (E0N1d)

86 I was not a fan, but I have to agree that she had some vocal talent after listening to some of the posted vids. Can't stand to watch the vids, or any vids in general. The pseudodrama of the short attention span camera work just drives me to distraction. Other than that, did she ever sing any songs about a happy topic? Seems she was strung out on songs about sadness as much as anything else.

Posted by: dissent555 at July 24, 2011 07:00 AM (yR6A1)

87 #86 - Bennett and Winehouse had already recorded their duet in March. The album comes out in September. Others to be on it include Lady Gaga, Carrie Underwood, Michael Buble, Josh Groban, Faith Hill, Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, k.d. lang and Andrea Bocelli. I would think it's pretty much guaranteed now that the Bennett / Winehouse duet will be the first single. Nothing music companies do better than cash in on a dead star (see Michael Jackson).

Posted by: Zooropa at July 24, 2011 07:08 AM (E0N1d)

88 RIP for her. and ryan dunn too,

Posted by: celeb yeah at July 24, 2011 07:55 AM (fE2eX)

89 The tragedy lies in her wasted talent. No one forced her to start doing drugs, correct. The consequences for her behavior were dire, a self-imposed death sentence. But it doesn't remove the fact that she had talent, and it doesn't mean we can't be sad that she was unable to beat her demons. Addiction, despite its root cause in peoples' own behaviors, is a very, very ugly thing.

Posted by: ArmyWife at July 24, 2011 10:47 AM (p8aFa)

91 The tragedy lies in her wasted talent.

The tragedy lies in her wasted life.

Posted by: Keef Richards at July 24, 2011 12:17 PM (tSxym)

91 Out damn Keef.

Posted by: Black Mamba at July 24, 2011 12:19 PM (tSxym)

92 yeah well some rich jew girl from England singing with an accent as if she experienced life in a ghetto for 50 years to me is just a poser who took full advantage of her singing ability to dupe her listeners. She is right up there with Mick Jagger May she RIP

Posted by: Krazy Kat at July 24, 2011 12:40 PM (A23u6)

<i>"...some rich jew girl from England.."</i>

Ain't you sweet. According to you, then, no limey's ever allowed to sing the blues? Or.. no Jewish girl is? But a white gentile American is?

Or a Black American who's not poor enough?

She's dead and she really was a fine singer. Aside from herself, who did she hurt?

And what the hell do you know about England, anyway?

Posted by: Black Mamba at July 24, 2011 03:25 PM (tSxym)

94 Everything i have been trying to type about this comes across as mean or snarky, so I'll just say nothing about it because that is what it ultimately means to me (oooh, there is that snarky again...).

Posted by: Clutch at July 24, 2011 05:33 PM (X67eL)

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