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Amy Winehouse, 27, Reportedly Found Dead In Her London Apartment

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Critically acclaimed R&B singer Amy Winehouse was reportedly found dead in her London apartment today at 4 p.m. local time. She was 27 years old. According to the Daily Mail, her death is "believed to be unexplained." Winehouse appeared at a concert on Wednesday featuring her 15-year-old Goddaughter Dionne Bromfield, and according to one source, "staggered onstage" to tell the audience to buy Bromfield's new record.

Winehouse cancelled 11 dates of a European tour after a disappointing performance in Belgrade, Serbia, last month, and later refused payment for the concert. Before embarking on the tour, according to Entertainment Weekly the singer spent two weeks at a clinic in London for unspecified reasons.

Winehouse is best known for her 2006 sophomore album Back To Black, which made her the first woman from the UK to win five Grammys, including Record of the Year, and tied the record held for most Grammys won on a single night by a female artist. Her struggles with drugs and alcohol that she shared with her former husband Blake Fielder-Civil are well-documented. Winehouse joins a host of musicians such as Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain who all died tragic deaths at the age of 27.


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  • Guest

    Yis'ga'dal v'yis'kadash sh'may ra'bbo, b'olmo dee'vro chir'usay v'yamlich malchu'say, b'chayaychon uv'yomay'chon uv'chayay d'chol bais Yisroel, ba'agolo u'viz'man koriv; v'imru Omein.     Y'hay shmay rabbo m'vorach l'olam ul'olmay olmayo.     Yisborach v'yishtabach v'yispoar v'yisromam v'yismasay, v'yishador v'yis'aleh v'yisalal, shmay d'kudsho, brich hu, l'aylo min kl birchoso v'sheeroso, tush'bechoso v'nechemoso, da,ameeran b'olmo; vimru Omein.     Y'hay shlomo rabbo min sh'mayo, v'chayim alaynu v'al kol Yisroel; v'imru Omein.     Oseh sholom bimromov, hu ya'aseh sholom olaynu, v'al kol yisroel; vimru Omein. Goodbye Amy.

  • Guest

    I find it more frightening out of all this that more people on facebook commented on Winehouse's death then the tragedy in Norway.

  • virgilstarkwell

    you're so wonderful and better than us all.

    frightening? really?

  • Guest

    Nope

    I'm just as pointless as you and the rest.

    Once you accept that

    Maybe you'll drop the ego

    And open you heart up to real emotions.

  • virgilstarkwell

    thanks, gandhi.

  • Guest

    Oh man

    Quite the insult there chico

    I would say though

    People might not spit on you so often

    If you woke up

    And realized we are end up just like her

    The man in your pic knows that

    Maybe you should look up the word sincerity

    You might find a point

    Or maybe not

    Fuck I care

  • MEDICNYC

    She was actually very talented but I kind of don't give a shit.

  • Guest

    You wouldn't.

  • Guest

    Just like he probably doesn't give a shit about victims that he supposedly assists. What a loser.

  • birdtird

    unlike jimi hendrix or even kurt cobain amy did not change the landscape of music and how it's perceived, her gift however were her amazing pipes which she stopped using years ago, a couple months back she was all over the internet at a show in serbia where she could barely warble out a note, where was puffy and kelly clarkson or whoever then? it's a bummer when anyone dies a tragic drug fueled death but it's a bummer when a death of one person who was documenting or having documented their decline seems to be a way to say "look at me, i'm so sad" and in reality much sadder shit is going on

  • Amy Winehouse Joined  27 Club :  http://t.co/Tc6hMlx

  • crusher153

    i'm not sad or suprised. all i can say is she profited on her habit, she didn't care about anyone else to promote a positive message in her music (at least the crap they played on the radio). its fucked up she had to learn the hard way but what can you say. hopefully you can find the peace in death that you couldn't find in life.

  • birdtird

    Is there a link between having the Ronsons as aquaintences and fucking up your life?

  • canofpeas

    She allegedly bought, coke, ecstasy and ketamine the night before her death.  If she wasn't intentionally trying to kill herself, subliminally she was doing a good job.

  • Lady gaga will be next 

  • TheOtherBob

    I hope not -- and not because I necessarily like her stuff.  Just...man, enough with this "female singer burns out violently" stuff.

  • physicsandknives

    The 27 Club continues..

  • Colonel_Ingus

    Charlie Sheen could've beat it.

  • theevilerone

    So much talent squandered, and totally unsurprising. With Winehouse, not a matter of if, but a matter of when.

    The death is "unexplained?" Blues Clues will be able to figure this one out.

    Are you watching Lindsey Lohan?

  • Not surprised but what a waste. Am listening to her great acoustic cover of Valerie. God, she was really great... http://youtu.be/lqSKVv6YO8g

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