[78-L] Amy Winehouse

[David Lennick]

And immediately this becomes the #1 news headline, replacing that tired old 
story about the nut job in Norway. Pathetic I calls it.

dl

On 7/23/2011 3:23 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> No No No.  I won't say it.
>
> I won't say it.
>
> OK, if you insist I will say it..
>
>
> Maybe if Rupert Murdoch was still tapping phones they might have found
> out quicker that she was overdosing.
>
> There.  I said it.
>
> You do realize that this would have been the headline on tomorrow's News
> of the World.  They could always put out a Sunday edition of The Sun.
>
> It is ironic that in the past few days we have been discussing the death
> of a 94 year old, and now here comes the death of a 27 year old.  But it
> is true that our 78 era also had its share of tragic young
> substance-induced deaths.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> On 7/23/2011 3:01 PM, Erwin Kluwer wrote:
>> I think her tattoos were great!! The rest I didn't care for...
>>
>> But may her soul RIP.
>>
>> Erwin
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Royal Pemberton<ampex354 at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>
>>> A decent singer and better than a lot that's out there....but she always
>>> seemed to be more notorious for her chronic patterns of screwing up her
>>> life; that's perhaps what she'll mainly be remembered for.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:51 PM, agp<agp2176 at verizon.net>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> At 18:25 23/07/2011, CG wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> She'll be exploded into a musical media martyr now, no matter what
>>>>> the quality of her work was (I was not a fan; in fact, I was kind of
>>>>> repelled by her).
>>>> On a peer basis she was far better than drivel on the radio today.
>>>> One may argue that this is not saying much. I always felt that her
>>>> voice had a 'blues/soul/ r&b' tint to it and that with the right
>>>> direction could have matured to be part of many genre.
>>>>
>>>> I agree that she was 'repellant' with her tattoos and piercings and
>>>> general presence -- drunkenness and drugged out. To some of 'our
>>>> generation' this is rather disgusting, but apparently not to her
>>>> peers. I have to wonder how many of us would have reacted to, say,
>>>> Billie Holiday, given a similar environment.
>>>>
>>>> To a very big extent, I think that the evil that is the music biz
>>>> today simply chewed her up and spit her out and really didn't give a
>>>> rat's a$$ about her destructive nature or their part in sustaining it.
>>>>
>>>> T
>>>>