Posted by Charlie on July 25, 2011
For all the witty plays that Amy Winehouse had on rehab, the realities of alcohol and drug abuse and addiction are just sad.
On Saturday, Winehouse was found dead in her London apartment at the age of 27. Her struggles with addiction were well played out in the public’s eye, but in the end she was human after all. At this point there is no evidence that drugs were in her apartment, or even that they had anything to do with her death. It is clear that they took a toll on her.
Fellow Brit Adele, who Winehouse paved the way for, released a statement today saying Amy was ‘brilliant” and “fearlessly hilarious.”
M.I.A., known for her hard hitting track Paper Planes released the tribute track “27” on her Twitter feed. Have a listen:
Winehouse’s 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her 2006 follow-up album, Back to Black, led to six Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the then record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made Winehouse the first British female to win five Grammys,[3][4] including three of the “Big Four“: Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. On 14 February 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist; she had also been nominated for Best British Album.
She won the Ivor Novello Award three times, one in 2004 for Best Contemporary Song (musically and lyrically) for “Stronger Than Me“, one in 2007 for Best Contemporary Song for “Rehab“, and one in 2008 for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for “Love Is a Losing Game“, among other distinctions. The album was the third biggest seller of the 2000s in the United Kingdom – Source: Wikipedia
When it comes to her hit song “Rehab, ” Winehouse was asked by The Daily Mail on August 3, 2007 how she writes songs. Said Winehouse: “With ‘Rehab’ I was walking down the street with Mark Ronson, who produced my last album. I just sang the hook out loud. It was quite silly really.” She was then asked, “Did you sing the ‘no no no’ bit as well?’” “Yeah, I sang the whole line exactly as it turned out on the record! Mark laughed and asked me who wrote it because he liked it. I told him that I’d just made it up but that it was true and he encouraged me to turn it into a song, which took me 5 minutes. It wasn’t hard. It was about what my old management company (run by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller) wanted me to do. – Source : Artistfacts
The “27 Club,” notorious for aritists who have died at the age of 27 now contains the names; Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and now Winehouse.
