Breaking! Amy Winehouse Found Dead in London
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Amy Winehouse was found dead today
Winehouse was 27 years old
The L.A.Times reported at 11:05 a.m. PDT that the controversial pop star Amy Winehouse was found dead Saturday in her London apartment. London Ambulance Service received a call to her flat at 15:54 BST. The Service sent two vehicles but the 27 year-old singer was pronounced dead upon their arrival. Amy Winehouse was the same age as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain when they died.
The troubled singer had a long battle with drink and drugs which grabbed as many headlines as her recent musical career.
Winehouse’s publicists have not yet responded to requests for comment. No reason has yet been cited as a cause of death.
Her European tour dates were cancelled after a disastrous performance in the Serbian capital of Belgrade after the musician was heavily booed after she arrived late and then staggering through her performance. Moby, who toured with Winehouse during her now infamous performance in Serbia, stated After our show in Serbia I wish I’d been able to help Amy. I’m sorry.
Love or hate her, Ashton Kutcher, in his usual asshole fashion, made light of her death. On Twitter, he posted, I never know wht 2 post after paying respect 2 sum1 who died. Just seems lk anything funny is inappropriate. mayB I’ll just go C Harry Potter.
Her erratic behavior was usually the norm for Winehouse since her 2006 effort Back to Black catapulted her to stardom. On the basis of this album, many music critics considered a tough, no-nonsense R&B singer in a ’60s-inspired vintage mode. Back to Black was heavy on noir imagery and recalled the early days of Motown.
Winehouse received a Best New Artist award at the 2008 Grammys, as well as song and record of the year for “Rehab.” Winehouse was named best new artist at the ceremony. Just before the 2008 award ceremony, Winehouse was rumored to have entered a rehabilitation facility and was denied a U.S. visa. She performed on the live Grammy telecast via satellite from London.
Much of Winehouse’s post-Back to Black career was mired in by abuse and legal problems. She was scheduled to be headlined as the 2009 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, but was forced to cancel after being charged with assault for allegedly attacking a fan week before the festival.
Winehouse recorded a song for Tony Bennett’s Duets II, scheduled for release in September 2011.
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The biggest difference between Amy Winehouse and Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain,and Jimi Hendrix is that she had the lives and deaths of Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Jimi Hendrix to look back on and say, “Wow, if you continually abuse drugs and alcohol, you die, no matter how many grammys you win, or gold records you have, or how much money you make.”
Had she chosen to invest the personal resources into getting treatment that she invested into getting high, she be doing talk shows right now talking about what a miraculous recovery she’d had, and how grateful she was now to be living sober. Is it a tragedy that she died young, and took a talent like hers to an early grave? Yes. But let’s not forget that addiction is a 100% treatable disease. All the deletirious effects of drug and alcohol abuse are self-inflicted. To bad she didn’t actually get some effective rehab, rather than make an award-winning song/record about it.
Wow, I believe someone just out “self righteoused” and out “judgementaled” me here at Mad Mikes. Difference is, I usually know WTF I’m talking about.
What, you think Amy Winehouse is the only person who ever struggled with addiction? Do you think ‘it works if you work it’ is just some nice thing people say at twelve step meetings, without a grain of truth to it? Why is it fans of these trainwreck superstars will all predict the inevitable outcome of their idols’ behaviors, then act shocked and offended when some one says, ‘well, who didn’t see that coming?’
Hang on a minute, Bradley. And who are you to say that addiction is 100% treatable? Reputable psychiatrists and psychologists would not make such a blithe, dismissive statement wholly lacking in veracity.
I am not sure you understand the nature of addiction. Addicts use drugs mask emotional pain. They often can’t just “stop” their illness, as you seem to think. I include a quote about addiction research in this comment from Psychology Today.
Many people go in and out of rehab without success in overcoming their addiction. The most successful and statistically effective rehab programs do not help some people overcome their addictions.
You need a lesson in compassion and scientific research.
Janis Joplin suffered from crippling depression and used drugs to ease the pain she endured as a child. Her childhood peers routinely taunted her, calling her names like “pig,” “freak,” or “creep” because of her severe acne. She was nominated for the “Ugliest Man on Campus” while she attended college in Austin. She once said, I make love to 10,000 people every night, and then I go home alone.
Jim Morrison was bipolar. Those who suffer from this disorder walk a tightrope of mania or hypomania occasionally accompanied by ideas and aspirations hanging over a pit of depression and hopelessness. Jimi Hendrix was also bipolar. For that matter, so was Kurt Cobain
Amy Weinhouse had an addictive personality in that she smoked constantly and is also anorexic, which is a disease where a person refuses to eat in order to assert control over herself. She never tried rehab; perhaps she was unable.
Psychology Today published an articled about addictive personality as a genetic disorder.
Scientists are just beginning to understand the brain pathways associated with addiction. One new discovery is that there are genes which lead dopamine receptors in the brain to become less sensitive. Since dopamine is a brain chemical associated with pleasure and reward, this would lead to a “dulling” of normal pleasure sensations.
Mr. Scott, This isn’t about predicting her demise. a fucking 10 yr. old could have done that. This is about your self righteous judgmental bullshit. Listen sonny boy, I am a survivor of drug and alcohol addiction. I know what it takes to get clean and sober and maintain that sobriety for decades, so don’t try and school me in recovery by spewing some trivial little jingle you heard in a 12 step meeting.
Amy Winehouse was powerless over her addiction. Did they not teach you that? At 27 it’s almost impossible to be anything but when the pain inside overwhelms any good sense or intellect a person might have. I feel nothing but sympathy for her and her family. I don’t sit here blowing bullshit about what she should have done or could have done. Apparently the only thing she could hav done was OD and die.
So go make a list of all the famous people you think will die in the future from their prediction. Then make a list of your friends and family you think might suffer the same fate. Whenever one does die, check them off your list and feel real good about yourself and how fucking smart you are.
Or try this:
Develop some humility by going out and trying to help someone you might know who is like Amy Winehouse. Take them to a meeting, give them your phone number, take them out for coffer or a burger and let THEM talk about their addiction and why they want to do things different. Give them a call once a day and ask them how they’re doing.
Also:
Get a fucking clue.
Here’s one for you free of charge. . .
There is no difference between Amy Winehouse and Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain,and Jimi Hendrix or the hundreds of other people I’ve seen die from the disease of addiction. . . some of them good friends who I just couldn’t help.
I ain’t your son and I ain’t no boy, so shove that, hillbilly. And I’ve be an addict since I got drunk the first time at the age of three. Recovering since 25, so I dont’ know were you pulled that ‘At 27 it’s almost impossible to be anything’ line from. If a fucking 10 year old could have seen it coming then a 27 year old could, too, and done something about it, unless nobody taught you the other 11 steps. But what did Amy say to Rehab? “No, no, no.” A child chasing a ball into a street being run over is a tragedy. An adult poisoning themself to death is a waste.
Keep coming back Bradley. If you keep working it you may not only learn to have compassion for others, but for yourself as well (not in that order). Humility will soon follow.
G’luck to you. I really hope you make it!
BTW: I once would have responded EXACTLY the way you have here.
Unless they’ve barred all the rehab doors, disbanded all twelve step programs and burned all the books, then yes, Dorothy, addiction is 100% treatable. Not cureable, and there is no guarantee that the treatment will be 100% effective, but anyone who chooses to, (and some who don’t) can be treated. Unless they flat-out refuse. Like Amy Winehouse.
There is no way a lucid 27 year old did not realize the danger posed to her by her lifestyle, unless we’re going to believe something like Bristol Palin’s ‘I didn’t know wine coolers had alcohol in them.’ She took the risk. She refused the help. She diced with death over and over until she lost. I greive for her parents, but her death was a waste, not a tragedy.
Maybe you could, Bradley, but others may not be as superior as you. It is ill-advised for one judge to judge another by one’s own ability to overcome addiction. Whether you like it or not, there is scant, if any, scientific evidence to your claim that 100% of addicts can be cured. That’s in almost psychiatric and psychological research literature.
Accordingly, Psychology Today defines addiction as:
The word addiction is used in several different ways. One definition describes physical addiction. This is a biological state in which the body adapts to the presence of a drug so that drug no longer has the same effect; this is known as tolerance. Because of tolerance, there is a biological reaction when the drug is withdrawn. Another form of physical addiction is the phenomenon of overreaction by the brain to drugs (or to cues associated with the drugs). An alcoholic walking into a bar, for instance, will feel an extra pull to have a drink because of these cues.
That said, there are few character traits more ugly than false superiority (if I can stop, so can you) or lack of compassion. Your statement neither addresses nor demonstrates a salient position for your perspective. Anecdotal comments are insufficient to demonstrate proof.
I left the rest to one of our muses, Sagacious Hillbilly.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Dorothy, Less than 10% of those who are introduced to recovery from addiction actually stay clean and sober. Some say it is less than 5%.
Bradley is looking at the only data he can see at this point: his own experience. I’ve been there. The thinking is that “if I can make it anyone can.” As we mature in recovery we realize that as a recovering person, our experience is unique and it’s not because I’m so smart, because I’ve seen lots of much smarter people not make it. It’s not because I became more desperate because I’ve seen lots of people much more desperate than I was not make it. It’s not that I had more to lose or more to gain. It’s not because I had better sponsors. It’s not because I wanted it more. Sometimes ya just gotta accept what is and go on.
Dorthy, I never claimed that 100% of addicts can be cured. Did you even read my post before putting words in my mouth, then judging me according to those words?
Hillbilly, I’m as aware as you are of the dismal statistics with regard to the efficacy of treatment, long term. But 100% (or very damned nearly) of addicts who flatly refuse to get any sort of treatment, like Amy Winehouse, even though the need is so obvious that as you said, a 10 year old could see it, will not recover. And that is what is, so you accept it and go on.
When I was at the height of my self destructive, addictive behavior, my brother grabbed be by the collar, slammed me down onto the couch, slapped me across the face and got an inch from my nose and yelled “What the fuck are you doing, you fucking garbage can? Do you want to fucking die? Do you want to go to prison? You don’t like being called agarbage can? Tough! This shit your doing is garbage, you put it in you, you’re a fucking garbage can! Now say something intellegent.”
He was a chain smoking alchoholic, so quite the hypocrite, and comitted suicide at 59, still active in his addiction. He had been in prison when he was my age, for forgery, had been a pimp and a drug dealer. He was an arrogant, self- righteous prick, none of which changes the fact that he was absolutely correct. If you feel his actions showed a lack of compassion, too bad. It worked as well as anything I ever got from a twelve step meeting.
And the feeling that ‘if i can make it anyone can’ has nothing to do with being superior. It is the hope I hold out to anyone willing to try. I said you can, I did not say you will, but you’d better at least die trying, because you will surely die if you don’t.
Amy Winehouse was a beautiful, tough and soulful woman. Her songs touch one with deep understanding of love, sadness and funk. Taken too soon……
This is just sad. Such a talent! This simply illustrates how horrible the disease of addiction can be.
It was sad indeed and I feel for her parents but I don’t think she had much in common with Janis Joplin other than they were both heavy drinkers and drug users who died young. Wasted lives…
This is terribly sad and such a waiste. It would be nice to think that all these talent actors, actresses, and sigers would do their part as good role models and stop showing us that all talents fortune and fame lead to is disasterouse destruction, jails, institutions, and deaths. VERY SAD. I love her music
I predicted this, sad to say. Loved her voice.