Posted July 23, 2011 by Eddie "STATS" 11 comments

OKP News: Amy Winehouse Dies at 27

One of the great talents of her generation, musician Amy Winehouse was found dead by ambulance crews called to her home in the Camden section of London this morning. Though there has been wide speculation that Winehouse succumbed to a drug overdose after a long and public battle with addiction, the official cause of death will not be known until after an autopsy is performed in the next few days. The young singer’s death (she was only 27 years old) has already prompted an outpouring of sympathy from friends and collaborators as well a lot of recaps of her brief but brilliant career and her personal troubles.

Like some legendary rockstars who came before her, Winehouse’s oversized personality and a self-destructive streak that matched her creative energies seemed to invite morbid speculation long before her actual death and it has not gone unnoticed that when it came her passing placed her in the infamous “27 Forever club” who’s membership includes Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain.

Somewhat obscured in all the tabloid appearances of recent years was Winehouse’s immense musical contribution. Although fans had been waiting for a follow up to the Grammy-winning Back to Black since 2006, there were plans as recently as last year for Winehouse’s participation in a ‘supergroup’ with Questlove and Raphael Saadiq and it is unrecorded sessions like these which may be the biggest blow to music fans–and close collaborators, who got the chance to see the the real Amy Winehouse shine in the studio, rather than watching her public persona wither and fade.

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BrotherR

Truly 1 of the GREATEST. RIP Amy x
waldo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3P9jSbvXyI this dude said ‘amy dead RIP’ on one of her videos a few hours before she died, pretty weird
http://vigoronline.com vigoronline.com

R.I.P. Amy. I covered her at the Okayplayer-affiliated Black Lily in 2007. Here’s the link: http://vigoronline.com/2011/07/23/r-i-p-amy/
Pooz30

“there were plans as recently as last year for Winehouse’s participation in a ‘supergroup’ with Questlove and Raphael Saadiq and it is unrecorded sessions like these which may be the biggest blow to music fans–and close collaborators, who got the chance to see the the real Amy Winehouse shine in the studio, rather than watching her public persona wither and fade.”
WORD!
howisya

make that former okayartist (remember those?) amy winehouse. pity, i wanted to hear her followup album and her songs with gorillaz.
rtoriq

The hell is up with all these surprise deaths? Well, i guess surprise death is a redundant term for the most part. Well i saw her for a brief second on AlJazeera (of all places) and didn’t get a chance to read the fine print as i was running out. But i had NOOO idea she died until i just saw the heading here. Wow. “Love is a Losing Game” was a song i used as a crutch to get over someone who weighed my heart down. As someone who’s never been into heavy drugs yet still had been so down enough you wanted to just seclude yourself from everyone forever, i felt like that may have her biggest problem; just being so down from perhaps the industry and negative concert feedback and feeling the pressure to follow up with such a successful album. Man, there needs to be a remix to this so-called “Motivation” song out there into one for fellow music artists, to tell people that they have to stay on their grind, else your head will get caught in the spinning craziness of media and music industry. That and a revival of the classic D.A.R.E. tshirt; i’m serious. RIP Amy Winehouse.
http://www.tropikalo.blogspot.com Kalo de 78

dearly missed.
Cone

I think Consequence is behind this somehow
loprimo

Drugs are bad!
http://www.firstregime.com/category/entertainment/ Missy

One more great loss we will miss her.
s.mack

Such a sensational voice and musical talent. And by the sounds of those who knew her, a pretty lovely lady too.