tedmaul Posted 23 July, 2011 Share Posted 23 July, 2011 Christ, i'm quite shocked. Despite her lifestyle, I was hoping and thinking she'd get herself together at some point. She was the most incredibly talented female singer/songwriter. Is just stunningly good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 23 July, 2011 Share Posted 23 July, 2011 Seriously? Which bit are you struggling to believe? The woman has been in the papers most months for the last three or four years, with various visits to re-hab centres, drug fueled binges, and other exploits. Is it such a stretch of the imagination to believe that someone who hit the self destruct button many years ago has finally departed this mortal coil? Obviously her lifestyle wasn't sustainable, but plenty of people with wilder lifestyles that have lived to longer than 27. Jagger & Richards are f*cking ancient, and they've got over 6 decades of heavy drug abuse behind them each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 23 July, 2011 Share Posted 23 July, 2011 I would put her in the Janis Joplin box, good but not great. Jim Morrison was great and Hendrix a genius, you can't really compare her to either, as sad as her passing is. Luckily this is a pretty isolated case nowadays, years ago there were whole bands ruined by drugs, and many many tragic cases. People like Clapton and Elton John not only broke their habit's but are helping others to do so now.............. 100% agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 23 July, 2011 Share Posted 23 July, 2011 All my thoughts and sympathies are with the families of those who were slaughtered in Norway to be quite honest. Winehouse chose this lifestyle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolution saint Posted 23 July, 2011 Share Posted 23 July, 2011 Christ, i'm quite shocked. Despite her lifestyle, I was hoping and thinking she'd get herself together at some point. She was the most incredibly talented female singer/songwriter. Is just stunningly good. Really? It's a bit boring and without passion I thought. Of course it's all subjective but personally I'd rather eat glass than listen to her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 23 July, 2011 Share Posted 23 July, 2011 (edited) I would put her in the Janis Joplin box, good but not great. Jim Morrison was great and Hendrix a genius, you can't really compare her to either, as sad as her passing is. Janis Joplin was easily one of the best vocalists ever to have lived - and probably that will ever live. Her range was absolutely incredible. Edited 23 July, 2011 by SuperMikey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 23 July, 2011 Share Posted 23 July, 2011 she wrote some good stuff - tears dry on their own, rehab, back to black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 23 July, 2011 Share Posted 23 July, 2011 Looks like she's already been cremated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigShadow Posted 23 July, 2011 Share Posted 23 July, 2011 A tragic waste of a talented life for sure but lets not kid ourselves about the pressures she faced. Facing expectation and media attention whilst having a stoked bank account is a pressure many of us may not understand, but would be willing to try. Having to find a job to feed the family and keep a roof over their heads - that's pressure - and millions of people deal with it everyday. RIP Amy - my thoughts are with your friends and family - but you made your own choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 23 July, 2011 Share Posted 23 July, 2011 Out of interest, did anyone have her in this years dead pool thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedmaul Posted 23 July, 2011 Share Posted 23 July, 2011 All my thoughts and sympathies are with the families of those who were slaughtered in Norway to be quite honest. Winehouse chose this lifestyle. "Winehouse" as you call her, is Amy a talented young lady who is now dead. This thread is about her. It's not a competition on who you feel sorry for. Or what you saw in the news today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 23 July, 2011 Share Posted 23 July, 2011 "Winehouse" as you call her, is Amy a talented young lady who is now dead. This thread is about her. It's not a competition on who you feel sorry for. Or what you saw in the news today. I never said it was a competition. I just have no sympathy for someone who lives a lifestyle like that whilst repeatedly refusing to get out of it. As for referring to her by her last name - I would find it odd calling someone I have never even seen in the flesh by their first name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedmaul Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 So your rule is unless I've met them in the flesh I'll call them by there surname? Why? In case they think i'm being a bit informal? Seems a bit weird to be honest. I guess Winehouse deserved to die really. She repeatedly refused to get out of it. Shame on her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintscottofthenortham Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 So your rule is unless I've met them in the flesh I'll call them by there surname? Why? In case they think i'm being a bit informal? Seems a bit weird to be honest. I guess Winehouse deserved to die really. She repeatedly refused to get out of it. Shame on her. As sad as it is, the writing has been on the wall for a very long time. And unfortunately, I don't have the same feel of sympathy for Amy Winehouse as I do for those that have had there innocent loved ones taken from there lives due to some loony. So I'm with Clarky I'm afraid. Sad loss but absolutely no surprise whatsoever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpbury Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 Well, her 'bland dinner party' music (good description) paved the way for a raft of similar-ish female vocalists to make their mark. Particularly Adele who seems more talented, more fun and much more successful. Also, not afraid of a pie or two. Maybe Winehouse saw what she could have been. Anyway, I'm guessing she didn't mean to do herself in, it just goes with the drug taking territory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 Out of interest, did anyone have her in this years dead pool thread? yep, she was in the very first post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solentstars Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 she wrote some good stuff - tears dry on their own, rehab, back to black Agree she reminded me of those great black blues singers of the 1950s who sang from the heart and emotions unlike today artists who sound like her but without the emotions. Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 Stupid cow. Hardly a surprise.!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 Docherty is next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 Docherty is next Don't think anything to argue with on that score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swansea_Saint Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 Docherty is next Not that you should wish a death on anybody but this bloke really is a complete waste of breath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 There is an awful lot of assumption on this thread, considering the cause of death is not yet known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dark Sotonic Mills Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 There is an awful lot of assumption on this thread, considering the cause of death is not yet known. The Police Superintendent in charge of the investigation said that an overdose was suspected. That is another thing; most suspicious or unexplained deaths get a DI as SIO, maybe a DCI if murder is suspected. But a Superintendent? There seems to be more to this than meets the eye when you realise that Winehouse was just a ticking time-bomb with no-one knowing exactly what time for detonation was set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 The Police Superintendent in charge of the investigation said that an overdose was suspected. That is another thing; most suspicious or unexplained deaths get a DI as SIO, maybe a DCI if murder is suspected. But a Superintendent? There seems to be more to this than meets the eye when you realise that Winehouse was just a ticking time-bomb with no-one knowing exactly what time for detonation was set. Maybe she was about to reveal some information about Rupert Murdoch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solentstars Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 she was a great female artist and talent which only comes around once in a lifetime won 5 grammy awards in a single night in america which i doubt any other british female singer will ever repeat r.i.p http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Winehouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintscottofthenortham Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 Not that you should wish a death on anybody but this bloke really is a complete waste of breath. Do you know anything about him other than the fact he has been on a few right royal benders...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 A very sad end to a troubled life. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 Mrs D here, as the daughter of an addict I don't blame her family at all. If she didn't want to be helped then nothing they did or didn't do would make a bit of difference. People have to WANT to be helped or it doesn't work. I don't blame her family. As I said it was her life. But it was also plainly obvious from her last public performance that she needed some serious help. AW was surrounded by people who had the money and influence to do better for her. She wasn't your run of the mill drug addict who could probably hide away from people and decline without people intervening. They (the people that worked with her) tried to put her on stage, less than a month ago - just imagine the pressure of having to perform. Everybody who saw that performance could see that she was a very troubled woman - what about the management, producers, promoters, musicians and yes, family and friends that put that tour togeather. They were all blind - or just irresponsibly blind. It's not their fault, it's Amy's fault. But in life, we all need help and perhaps she didn't quite get all the help she needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 Oh well, in other news, here's a skateboarding dog... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 she was a great female artist and talent which only comes around once in a lifetime won 5 grammy awards in a single night in america which i doubt any other british female singer will ever repeat r.i.p http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Winehouse Come off it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OttawaSaint Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 Come off it. I know eh, Annie Lennox, Bjork, Tina Turner, Madonna etc etc. just off the top of my head... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atticus Finch of Maycomb Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 I would put her in the Janis Joplin box Good thinking. Winehouse was always very skinny, and Joplin will be nothing but dust by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 I keep hearing news reports about how her fans are leaving bottles of wine instead of floral tributes, and flocking to her local in Camden to neck the booze in her honour. Oh, the irony.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 Not that you should wish a death on anybody but this bloke really is a complete waste of breath. bit harsh to say that about thedelldays! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 24 July, 2011 Share Posted 24 July, 2011 at least she has kept the boring phone hacking story off the news for a few days. Thank you Miss Whitehouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 25 July, 2011 Share Posted 25 July, 2011 A thought-provoking article in today's Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/24/amy-winehouse-alcoholism-addiction?intcmp=239 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dark Sotonic Mills Posted 25 July, 2011 Share Posted 25 July, 2011 Her ex, Blake Fielder-Civil claims with great pride that he was the one that introduced her to the joys of heroin and other drugs. I hope a lot of the blame and criticism is now directed at him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntingdon Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 It's her funeral today Elton John will be performing 'Candle Under the Spoon' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 Brian Jones, Jimmy Hendrix, Janice Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and now Amy Winehouse, all died aged 27. Only 10 years left Beiber you little w*nker!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Bognor Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 It's her funeral today Elton John will be performing 'Candle Under the Spoon' What have Amy Winehouse and Imogen Thomas got in common? They are both not doing Giggs anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 26 July, 2011 Share Posted 26 July, 2011 You never see an old drug addict. Such a shame as she had a wonderful talent. Keith Richards must be around 26 now, so not long left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gingeletiss Posted 27 July, 2011 Share Posted 27 July, 2011 Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse - all made front page news when they died aged 27 from drug overdoses - PATHETIC rolemodels..........Andrew Found, Martin Lamb, Daniel Prior, Steven Dunn, Graham Shaw - none made front page news when they died aged 27 members of our Armed Forces killed in action in Afghanistan - PERFECT rolemodels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingbattigger Posted 27 July, 2011 Share Posted 27 July, 2011 Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse - all made front page news when they died aged 27 from drug overdoses - PATHETIC rolemodels..........Andrew Found, Martin Lamb, Daniel Prior, Steven Dunn, Graham Shaw - none made front page news when they died aged 27 members of our Armed Forces killed in action in Afghanistan - PERFECT rolemodels. Best post on this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefunkygibbons Posted 27 July, 2011 Share Posted 27 July, 2011 Congratulations to Amy Winehouse for being sober for 4 days now Too soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted 27 July, 2011 Share Posted 27 July, 2011 I keep hearing news reports about how her fans are leaving bottles of wine instead of floral tributes, and flocking to her local in Camden to neck the booze in her honour. Oh, the irony.... Reminds of the Bill Hicks sketch about JFK and the sniper rifle pendant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 27 July, 2011 Share Posted 27 July, 2011 Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse - all made front page news when they died aged 27 from drug overdoses - PATHETIC rolemodels..........Andrew Found, Martin Lamb, Daniel Prior, Steven Dunn, Graham Shaw - none made front page news when they died aged 27 members of our Armed Forces killed in action in Afghanistan - PERFECT rolemodels. Why is Jimi Hendrix, for example, an 'pathetic' role model? As a musical genius who revolutionised electric guitar playing (and who incidentally served in the 101st Airborne), his accidental death (from drinking too much and mixing it with sleeping pills) was a tragedy and a huge loss. No one is belittling the deaths of servicemen - and frankly, looking at the appalling quality of 'front page' coverage of AW's and others' deaths, who the hell else would want it? So tell me more about how 'pathetic' Hendrix was. Really - I want to know. In what way did he offend you in life or death? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 27 July, 2011 Share Posted 27 July, 2011 Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse - all made front page news when they died aged 27 from drug overdoses - PATHETIC rolemodels..........Andrew Found, Martin Lamb, Daniel Prior, Steven Dunn, Graham Shaw - none made front page news when they died aged 27 members of our Armed Forces killed in action in Afghanistan - PERFECT rolemodels. I agree with the sentiment of your post, but nevertheless could she f**king sing or could she f**king sing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solentstars Posted 27 July, 2011 Share Posted 27 July, 2011 Why is Jimi Hendrix, for example, an 'pathetic' role model? As a musical genius who revolutionised electric guitar playing (and who incidentally served in the 101st Airborne), his accidental death (from drinking too much and mixing it with sleeping pills) was a tragedy and a huge loss. No one is belittling the deaths of servicemen - and frankly, looking at the appalling quality of 'front page' coverage of AW's and others' deaths, who the hell else would want it? So tell me more about how 'pathetic' Hendrix was. Really - I want to know. In what way did he offend you in life or death? Agree its sad how small minded some people are but hey that's life Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted 27 July, 2011 Share Posted 27 July, 2011 Why is Jimi Hendrix, for example, an 'pathetic' role model? As a musical genius who revolutionised electric guitar playing (and who incidentally served in the 101st Airborne), his accidental death (from drinking too much and mixing it with sleeping pills) was a tragedy and a huge loss. No one is belittling the deaths of servicemen - and frankly, looking at the appalling quality of 'front page' coverage of AW's and others' deaths, who the hell else would want it? So tell me more about how 'pathetic' Hendrix was. Really - I want to know. In what way did he offend you in life or death? I don't think he said he was offended, rather he questioned the portrayal of them as role models. But don't let that stop you going off on one, Verbal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 27 July, 2011 Share Posted 27 July, 2011 I don't think he said he was offended, rather he questioned the portrayal of them as role models. But don't let that stop you going off on one, Verbal. No, he said Hendrix was 'pathetic'. So clearly offended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now