The film follows Amy Winehouse’s life and career, from her early days as a jazz singer in north London to her international fame as a Grammy winner.
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After her record label posthumously destroyed all unreleased recordings of her, fans thought they would never get another Amy Winehouse original. Wrong.
Can someone please have a word with Madonna and tell her it’s OK to age gracefully? Not her style I guess, although she ain’t doing so well at present.
Following the Cannes screening of the Amy Winehouse documentary her father has come under fire for his treatment of his daughter. He isn’t very pleased.
You wouldn’t expect a film covering the life and times of one of our generation’s most tortured geniuses to be anything other than hard-hitting. It looks like this one will be no different.
Tribute has been paid to Amy Winehouse, who passed away in 2011, as a bronze statue has been erected in London, with many fans present to watch the unveiling.
This interview with Amy Winehouse has been kept unpublished since 2004 – right at the beginning of her volatile and brilliant career. When journalist John Marrs met the young singer it was pre-drugs, pre-Blake drama, and pre- several tattoos. Her thoughts and clarity at the time is astounding.
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So it looks like Brazil is at the forefront of drugvertising, and Amy is there number one brand ambassador. Apparently a gang has been using her likeness to market baggies of coke, inserting her picture inside and dubbing her as ‘Amy House’. Guess who they were putting in their bags of crack? Osama Bin-Laden.
Her untimely death shocked millions of people, but as proof that every cloud has a silver lining, a duet between Amy Whinehouse and Jazz Legend Tony Bennett is to be released as a charity single. All royalties from the pop classic Body and Soul, are to go to an organisation set up by Amy’s father, curbing youth drug use.
How’s this? Amy Winehouse’s family believes that a seizure related to abstinence from drinking is actually what killed her. The family says the singer quit alcohol cold turkey three weeks before she died. They think her tiny frame could not handle the shock of withdrawal, leading to her untimely death.
Between 1969-1971, the world lost four unrivaled musicians when Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix all died either by the hand of heroin or another substance. All at the age of 27. This coincidental phenomenon generated the name 27 Club, which chronicles the untimely death of musicians like Kurt Cobain and Robert […]
We all have our lapses of judgment. But some of us make such horrendously poor decisions that one simply has to ask, “What were they on?”. Every week we bring you three contenders in what can only be described as a battle of small wits. So, with great pleasure we present this week’s three La […]
It’s not clear exactly what Amy was on when she performed in Belgrade on Saturday night, but whatever it was, it was a lot. During her 90 minute performance, Winehouse managed to mumble mostly and may have even hallucinated a few times too. The next few legs of her European tour have obviously been cancelled.