Too bad the hold drugs get over people and that nobody around her could help.
“It is cheaper to rehabilitate an addict than to send them to prison, so criminalisation doesn’t even make economic sense.”
Ah, but it keeps so many jack booted thugs employed (and here in California a lot of them are unionized Prison Guards).
RIP Amy, the 27 club was already too damn big.
Too bad the hold drugs get over people and that nobody around her could help.
Lohan is next up for the 27 Club. She’s eligible on July 2, 2013. Mark your dead pool in the fall of 2012.
Addiction as a “romantic disease” is today’s equivalent of “consumption” (tuberculosis). But back then, living was hard enough.
My Nephew was an addict. He started doing drugs at age 19. He had a very high IQ but by the age of 26 his brain was burned out. He took his own life by breaking a Natural Gas pipe line in the apartment he was renting. In his suicide note, the line, “I’m not smart anymore” stood out. His mother and father still grieve after 7 years and still blame themselves. They had 4 kids, 3 of them are fine, one failure but not their fault IMO.
An incredibly talented individual.
R.I.P.
Well said.
No great loss in my book.
Jimi Hendrix had great talent as a guitarist. Amy Winehouse had an original voice and sound. Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain were both retarded screeching hacks with a talent for attention-seeking and nothing else.
Russell Brand is a pretty fair writer.
“...that voice, a voice that seemed not to come from her but from somewhere beyond even Billie”
Can’t agree. Winehouse was a great singer in her own right, but Billie was most emphatically in the room every time Amy opened her mouth.