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Police: Singer Amy Winehouse dies
Yahoo ^ | 7/23/2011 | Yahoo News

Posted on 07/23/2011 10:29:11 AM PDT by Dallas59

LONDON (AP) — Amy Winehouse, the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead Saturday in her London home, police said. She was 27.

Winehouse shot to fame with the album "Back to Black," whose blend of jazz, soul, rock and classic pop was a global hit. It won five Grammys and made Winehouse — with her black beehive hairdo and old-fashioned sailor tattoos — one of music's most recognizable stars.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: amywinehouse; death; thegooddieyoung
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To: Dallas59

Not a Streisand talent for sure....just more flamboyancy and loud music.


61 posted on 07/23/2011 11:36:01 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Dallas59

Stupid woman. Talented singer with so many chances to get herself straightened out and she blew it.

When something like this happens, it’s terrible for family and friends. Those are the people I feel for right now. She was too selfish to think about them and the grief she would cause.


62 posted on 07/23/2011 11:36:50 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: yoe

Janis Joplin.


63 posted on 07/23/2011 11:37:18 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: LeonardFMason

God bless you, Leonard.


64 posted on 07/23/2011 11:39:22 AM PDT by arkady_renko
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To: Gena Bukin

What is eerie is your post number (27)!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you time that?


65 posted on 07/23/2011 11:42:54 AM PDT by sodpoodle
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To: Dallas59
OMG. As someone pointed out, not a surprise. This is a tragedy. Supertalented iconoclastic straight-talker with exceptional musical standards.

RIP, poor tragic soul.

66 posted on 07/23/2011 11:43:19 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("America will cease to be great when America ceases to be good." -- Welcome to deToqueville.)
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To: Dallas59
Boy. What a shock. Who would have seen this coming? Drugs will do it every time.

Before

After

67 posted on 07/23/2011 11:43:53 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
Wow, what is it with dead druggie musicians dieing at 27?

The human soul can only be bought and sold so many times.

68 posted on 07/23/2011 11:44:20 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("America will cease to be great when America ceases to be good." -- Welcome to deToqueville.)
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To: Dallas59

They’re just announcing it now?

She looked dead already in the last picture of her I saw...


69 posted on 07/23/2011 11:44:34 AM PDT by djf ("Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." Oscar Wilde)
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To: Dallas59

Can’t say I’m surprised. I never liked her, but hubby thought she was talented.

AFA, dead rock stars I’m more into those who died at 21-22 (Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran).


70 posted on 07/23/2011 11:44:48 AM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost, but now am found; was blind but now I see")
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To: Lazlo in PA

You know you’re in trouble when you make Keith Richards look like he’s 20!!


71 posted on 07/23/2011 11:45:50 AM PDT by djf ("Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." Oscar Wilde)
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To: Gena Bukin
I realize she isn't a musician, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lindsay Lohan made this list.

She has major issues.

72 posted on 07/23/2011 11:48:18 AM PDT by Realman30 ("I've already made a donation to Haiti. It's called taxes". . . . El Rushbo.)
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To: NY Cajun
Her choice. NEXT!!!!

where do I begin? Stupid? Ignorant? Philosphically childish?

Whatever. It's "your choice." Meditate on that when the karma train rolls into your station, YOU POOR MORON.

73 posted on 07/23/2011 11:48:23 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("America will cease to be great when America ceases to be good." -- Welcome to deToqueville.)
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To: fatnotlazy
She was too selfish to think about them and the grief she would cause.

Yes. And if you were God you could send her to hell for disappointing them. But if this comment is any indication, you don't pass the essay test for God-ness.

When will I stop being surprised at the sheer callousness and stupidity of people?

74 posted on 07/23/2011 11:51:55 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("America will cease to be great when America ceases to be good." -- Welcome to deToqueville.)
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To: DaveMSmith

That’s a “great voice”? Sounds more like a tenor version of Arthur Godfrey....


75 posted on 07/23/2011 11:58:13 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: Hawk1976

that and then some. She destroyed herself in front of the whole world. Sad when you think about it.


76 posted on 07/23/2011 11:58:16 AM PDT by Orange1998
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To: Popman
...except for the winner of the dead pool

A radio show I listen to has a death pool. Takes calls for an hour to fill it ~< 60 picks.

The last pool ended with Peter Falk, and I think Winehouse was listed as #39 in the current one.

Pity she couldn't shake that monkey off her back. I liked a lot of what I heard of her work.

77 posted on 07/23/2011 12:06:10 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Dallas59

If it wasn’t for my wife’s People magazines, I wouldn’t have a clue who this woman was.

If she was talented, sad loss. I don’t think I have ever her one of her songs.


78 posted on 07/23/2011 12:19:54 PM PDT by hattend (Its a matter of public record that I did not go to Harvard Law School, but I can add. - Sarah Palin)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

A case in point......bad choices bring bad results.


79 posted on 07/23/2011 12:21:41 PM PDT by Mercury OKC
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To: SunkenCiv
The question is what Amy Winehouse is going to do next.

I remember reading that just over a month ago and thinking she only had two options sobriety or death. Sadly it was not the former.

80 posted on 07/23/2011 12:30:26 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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