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#1 2011-07-23 12:39:09
- Kingstonian
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Amy Winehouse RIP
Show business excess claims another life.
She looked a lot healthier when she just started out.
#3 2011-07-23 13:52:15
- JDelage
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Re: Amy Winehouse RIP
Very sad. She was hugely talented.
#4 2011-07-23 14:21:25
- Maximilien de Robespierre
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Re: Amy Winehouse RIP
This is the most obvious pop-star implosion since Keith Moon. She and Moonie would have made quite a couple.
#5 2011-07-23 14:37:45
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Re: Amy Winehouse RIP
Keith Moon was the hyper active prankster type. He liked blowing up toilets and driving cars into swimming pools. I think he was more robust than Amy.
Shane McGowan is still a survivor.
#6 2011-07-23 14:55:31
- Maximilien de Robespierre
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Re: Amy Winehouse RIP
Here's a pretty good photographic chronicle of her decline and fall:
http://mediagallery.usatoday.com/The-rise-and-fall-of-Amy-Winehouse/G2525
#9 2011-07-23 15:44:30
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Re: Amy Winehouse RIP
It seems 27 is the sell by date for a lot of them: Cobain, Hendrix, Jones, Joplin, Morrison .....
#10 2011-07-23 16:03:11
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Re: Amy Winehouse RIP
It's tempting to blame the music industry of the fame game for these people's descent, but I bet all of them would have led similar lives if they had been talentless like the rest of us.
"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#12 2011-07-23 16:45:51
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Re: Amy Winehouse RIP
I was hoping she would get her shit together and put out one more album of the same quality as her last. I always assumed she'd be in and out for sobriety for about 10 years or so and then would either make a clean break of it or die
As stupid as it sounds I found her death surprising
#15 2011-07-23 20:56:41
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Re: Amy Winehouse RIP
And just a few weeks ago, some loons tried to kidnap Joss Stone with a sword. Rough month for white British soul divas.
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#16 2011-07-23 22:28:24
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Re: Amy Winehouse RIP
I have never listened to much of her stuff and most of it vicariously but she had a great voice...as the man said ..."I've seen the needle and the damage done"....
#17 2011-07-24 01:45:18
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Re: Amy Winehouse RIP
She had talent, but that quality is the most abundant and over estimated resource in the universe; its hard graft, self reliance and discipline that are in short supply. Tenacity and mission she had zero of.
Moon was a legend, a coyote trickster figure, whereas Amy is one of those sad middle class girls reduced to smoking crack around the coffee table and not much else. I wouldn't rush out to read a Whitehouse biography, but one on Moon is of interest.
May be I am being too harsh, she was introduced to bad drugs at a very early age.
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#20 2011-07-24 15:07:26
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Re: Amy Winehouse RIP
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#22 2011-07-24 17:52:46
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Re: Amy Winehouse RIP
So young, so talented and such a tragedy. l usually don't give a rip when celebrities die, but l felt sad when Amy died. l had a real soft spot for her.
#24 2011-07-25 02:19:28
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Re: Amy Winehouse RIP
I'm not convinced that Mike Myers is the right actor to play Moon. Nevertheless, any Who film is to be welcomed.
Back in the '80's I remember Townsend was on Russell Harty's talk show being interviewed on the plans for a film on Moon. It could be great.
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#25 2011-07-25 04:36:37
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Re: Amy Winehouse RIP
Like most of these people, she was off my radar. I didn't even twig to the fact she was Jewish. Maybe she fancied herself as a bit of a Joplin figure.