Amy Winehouse, 27, has been found dead at her London home. According to a statement by the Metropolitan Police, they were called by London Ambulance Service to an address in Camden Square NW1 at around 4 p.m. local time Saturday. Enquiries continue into the cause of death.
Last month, Winehouse called off all of the remaining dates on her European tour. That announcement came a day after the singer canceled dates in Athens and Istanbul following a disastrous performance in Belgrade, Serbia.
“Everyone involved wishes to do everything they can to help her return to her best and she will be given as long as it takes for this to happen,” Winehouse representative Chris Goodman told the Associated Press at the time. There was no mention of why Winehouse was in the state she was in during the Belgrade show.
Much of her Belgrade performance, which started an hour late, was caught on video. Winehouse stumbled about the stage and only intermittently sang her songs. The crowd roundly booed Winehouse, and a local newspaper referred to the concert as “the worst in the history of Belgrade.”
Only a few weeks before hitting the road, Winehouse spent two weeks at London’s Priory Clinic, though it was never made clear what she was being treated for.
(Reporting by Mandi Bierly and Kyle Anderson)
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May she finally find peace
True dat. Let this be a lesson to you, Charlie and Lilo. You are not invincible.
it’s like part of music has been taken from everyone, yet we are still the same. Tragic.
be that a lesson to the GLBT community. Don’t let your drug addiction get the best of you as it obviously did to one of our fellow members
Does Feist get a grammy now?
Guess she should have said YES YES YES to rehab after all….DOH!
Where is LOL to make sense of it all and tell us that America loves crap? WE NEEEED YOU LOL!!!!!!!!!
@ jerry: which member?
I hate the Kardashian Girls!!! they have done nothing for humanity to be celebs. all because of a TV show-Bull
It is a shame there was not a man around to protect her. She must have hung around a bunch of losers
Jerry, WTH are you implying by “lesson for the GLBT com.”? This can be a lesson to anyone and has NOTHING to do with the LGBT even if she did. As a gay man who does not drink or do any kind of drugs whats so ever(neither does my boyfriend) and didnt like Amy Winehouse and saw this coming long ago, I say, WTH. Where is the logic in your comment.
Jerry, Amy Winehouse was in love with the wrong man and that was the start of most of her troubles . There’s no evidence to suggest that she was gay. Please take your agenda somewhere else.
I got married to my Blake today in New York—make some noise for my BLAAAAAAAKE!
Brian
Ick!!!!!
Isn’t it ridiculous that someone actually printed that she “passed away?” She killed herself. After trying for years to do so, she finally succeeded. That should be the headline, “Amy Winehouse Finally Succeeds in Killing Herself.” Period. Anyone that feels any different is just plain stupid.
I absolutely love her music and was hoping she could find some peace here on earth and crank out another album. Very Very Sad! Guess I’mma be listening to Back to Black today!
I’ll be listening to it too.
Amy Winehouse overdosed on drugs. Man if people also overdosed on stupidity we could be rid of the Kardashians.
Check out FRANK as well. I’m a 50-something guy, I’m so saddened by this news. I too was hoping we’d hear some new brilliance from this poor young woman. A terrible tragedy.
Ha! Crack… out another album.
Was she really only 27?
i agree with louisk! Frank is an awesome album. didnt get any play over in america, but its really great. less radio ready, but more jazzy and soulful. i put it on when i am cooking or cleaning. great music to casually jam out to
I’m really disappointed. Back to Black is easily one of my favorite albums. I had been hoping she would eventually get healthy and reignite her music career.
The GLBT world has lost one of their own today.
Amy wasn’t gay.
she wasn’t gay, she had surgery to fix it
About the we are all the same yet not the same, which makes us all the same either way. Or something like that.
Absolutely stunning work as awyals! The shot on the staircase is unbelievable. I was in Victoria Secret yesterday and they had a series of shots on the wall with their main model and I though, Christa should shoot for them.
They tried to send her to rehab but now she’s in hell, hell, hell…
That was so not LOL. She accomplished more than a lot of us ever will.
Krusty, you’ll get there first.
What an in appropriate comment.
How thoughtful…
Pull the plank out of your own eye brother…who are we to judge?
It is a tragedy for her family and friends and you would do well to respect their feelings.
@Paul, and what exactly did she accomplish, other than doing more drugs, and alcohol than I ever will in a lifetime?
Its true. She most likely is in hell. The only way to heaven is thru Jesus. I never heard her mention Him….
You need to respect the dead , im sure everyone learns from their mistakes , you dont know whether shes in hell or heaven or not !
harris: So you knew her personally and what her religious beliefs were? Don’t throw stones. They may come back at you…
@krusty
okay, i lol’d a bit..good timing i guess..everyone lighten up, she would have laughed at it too.
Well this happens when you have really terrible management. Keep her drugged up and performing like a trained monkey.
I’m a Christian, and those of us who are at least vaguely familiar with the Holy Bible know that only God can judge anyone. Only God and Amy know what her demons were, what psychological torment/emotional pain she may have been in, how hard she may have tried to get rid of said demons etc. None of us know for sure, so none of us should be judging her or assuming she’s in hell. God loves us and forgives us. I believe she is at peace.
No time for haters !!!
Amy Winehouse died but so did 92 people in Norway. She was a self made junkie. They were innocent. perspective people
To Krusty, may you have a miserable life.
Yes she led a pathetic life, but maybe she had some spectacular religious experience in her final moments, maybe Jesus welcomed her with open arms – or maybe not, but I do know it’s none of your frigging business. If you can’t pity her, at least show some for her family.
She was Jewish. do your research, people!
Amy had her demons, but she wasn’t evil. She only hurt herself.
May she rest in peace.
@Bill; While I do agree she was waste of human space on this planet regarding her day to day decisions you can’t deny that she did land a record deal and releases a handful of moderately successful albums while gaining cult popularity. The only social thing I know of that you succeeded at today Bill is gaining one comment of recognition in an internet comments section; hurray to you!
@Cain-you do realize you are on an Entertainment website right. Should they not report entertainment related news because other people died in the world. It makes no sense.
Lol who cares? What did she really accomplish? Just because you have a hit song and make money that means you accomplish more than someone? No. She accomplished nothing because she failed at life. Burn in hell you junkie lol
To you haters: people who live in glass houses…
Hey Krusty! I want to make rectal love to you and your mom and dad.
You lot got totally trolled! C’mon peeps! Guys like Krusty with their tiny pee-pees get their jollies by stirring up this kind of funk!
Krusty, too soon
@harris432,
Amy Winehouse was Jewish, just like Jesus.
As a fellow Christian, I would like to ask you to not be mean-spirited and judgmental in the name of Jesus. To say that Amy is in hell is inappropriate. If you can’t say something respectful, then perhaps you need to read Jesus’ words more often.
“I’m a Christian, and those of us who are at least vaguely familiar with the Holy Bible know that only God can judge anyone.” Actually, I’m available for that service as well—just call 800-JUDGE-ME!
@nickkyg
I bet her parents are laughing their arses off. How hilarious that their baby is dead.
There is no hell. She’s on a slab in the morgue, and soon she will be in the ground. The end.
To all the people attacking Amy Wineshouse, what the hell have YOU contributed to society? Yes, Amy was a drug addict and she probably died from that, but she was also a briliant musician who’s music will be played and loved long after all you haters are dead and forgotten.
alan of montreal Sat 07/23/11 2:39 PM said: She was Jewish. do your research, people!
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So was Jesus. What’s your point?
Morons like Lola make excuses and look the other way at ridiculous, self-destructive behavior. Too bad that morons can’t drop dead from stupidity. Thank goodness that we’ll never have to have any more minutes wasted hearing about her latest overdose. Good riddance. Next. Lindsay Lohan? Charlie Sheen? Fingers crossed.
Wish her peace. Sad for her family.
Me too, may her soul find eternal peace!
Time to milk it.
her musical greatness is up there with Hall and Oats. Very sad.
We all knew the day was coming.
We just did not know what day it would be.
George Vreeland Hill
Well put George. She is up there with Bob Dylan in musical greatness.
Julie, you are on crack.
Another crack head bites the dust. Why would you give sympathy. She did this to herself. Besides, she was just a wasteless human being!
Addiction is a disease. Amy Winehouse tried rehab many times. If it were so easy to quit she would have.
Despite being an addict, she was productive artistically. She turned out some great music, which won her the a number of Grammys and other awards. Her musical legacy will be remembered.
B*ll$hit! Cancer is a disease. Diabetes is a disease. Addiction is a selfish choice that self-absorbed, hateful and hurtful people make. They don’t care about anyone. Not their families, not their friends, not themselves. As far as her ‘music’ is concerned, half of the people handing out Grammys are burnt-out, drugged-adled, boozehounds themselves. Young people are putting their very lives on the line for us every day. Those are the people who should be remembered, not some selfish idiot who wastes their life.
Hugs not drugs
Trudat
The end of a sad life.
What a shame.
Amy’s problems overcame her talent.
Some people slowly kill themselves.
It seems that was the case here.
…Really, it did not have to happen.
Amy had a lot of yes men around her when she should have had people who said no.
Lindsay Lohan needs to take notice of what happened to Amy Winehouse.
George Vreeland Hill.
Well said….
I didn’t like the racist and homophobe. I remember when Amy was caught on video making these kind of statements. After all she was only trying to imitate a jazz/blues/Motown singer and she lucked up that the record label gave her the band that Lauryn Hill was going to record her next albums with. I hate the culture vultures like her and John Mayer that show their real colors eventually. I think she was overrated anyway her voice was extremely average with no range. She always sounded like she was half way out of it.
She was a racist and homophobe.I didn’t like her.
Amy Winehouse dies of a drug overdose! So what? What about PFC Tyler Springman, SFC Kenneth Elwell, LCpl Jabari Thompson, SGT Edward Koehler, SSG Kenneth VanGiesen, SGT Brian Mowery, Cpl Mark Palin, SGT Jacob Molina, SSG James Christen, MSG Benjamin Stevenson? All KIA in Afghanistan this week.
And the legend begins…
Yes, she’s part of the “Forever 27 club” now, like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain.
I feel sorry for her parents but hopefully, she will find peace now.
Just cause she died at age 27 doesn’t mean she belongs in that group.
Jim Morrison too.
seriously? She does not compare to Morrison, Hendricks, Joplin, or even Cobain. Yes I feel terrible for the people who cared about her, but she did it to herself. She was a junkie who refused to get clean. It was gonna happen eventually.
Cobain committed suicide- he did it to himself, too. I wouldn’t call him a legend, though.
@daisy you realize all of those people had drug problems. All of them did it to themselves. Cobain literally.
I SOOOO agree!! She had a great voice (at one time) but come on, she does not deserve to be in the same sentence as Cobain or Joplin.
She had one great album, one good one and only a handful of notable songs. Meanwhile she was a mess the entire time and probably had 6 months of good performances in the last 5 years.
@sal Cobain is a legend thank you very much. and im sorry for all of you who are sad because of winehouse dying. but you know… i hate how people who have done nothing substantial in their life get all these “oh my God I cant believe theyre dead” comments just because they were famous. oh and lmao @ my spellcheck for suggesting “whorehouse” as a correct spelling of winehouse.
She WAS much better than any of those dinosaurs.
True, Winehouse was better than those dinosaurs.
come on baby light my fire? an albino, a mosquito? That says nothing to 99.9 percent of people’s lives. Amy talked about addiction in a very real way. My daddy thinks I’m fine. He was an enabler. See? A cry for help?
Pls. don’t mention AW in same sentence with Jim Morrison. She wasn’t such great talent as media promoted her. Few more-less god and not very original songs, deep voice and rude, junkie look. Very ugly girl which suffered a lot. Why? Ask her parents.
Forever 27 = Sh!theads that deserved it.
Oh man! This is a huge bummer.
Rats! i had August in the pool.
F**k with the bull (drugs) you’ll get the horns every time!! RIP
Ms. Chanandler Bong…hahahahah!!
I agree. I had an awful feeling this was gonna happen with her. But I thank her for Back to Black. I’ve been waiting for another album after that and it just never happened
nothing about 2 or about toeirrrsts. Then on my drive I was noticing everyone’s flags at 1/2 mass but just assumed someone important had died. As I walked into work I could see about 40 people crowded around the little TV in the waiting room (I worked in a hospital) and I walked up to it as well. There is sat in disbelief as I watch what had already occurred. One plane into the buildings (ok, so maybe it was an accident) then ANOTHER plane (OMG!) I was in shock. I had chills running down my spine. That day I didn’t feel like an invincible American anymore. And all of those innocent people again, Oh My God may all the victims rest in peace and may the hijackers not.
Amy Winehouse was incredibly gifted and was a brilliant artist. She had more talent in her pinky than Morrison had in his whole body — and I’m a Doors fan. However, his voice was mediocre at best. Oh, and lyrics? C’mon, Amy may have been high when she wrote her music, but the audience didn’t have to be high to understand her lyrics. The same can’t be said for The Doors.
We all know that if Morrison, or Cobain for that matter didn’t die young, they would have destroyed any legacy by continuing to make increasingly pointless music — and the public would have eventually caught on.
^That^
Are you kidding me you really think Amy Winehouse was more taalented than Jim Morrison? Thats nuts. She wasn’t even as good of drunk as he was. Still, it is sad she is gone. She had an amazing voice.
Please, please, don’t put in same sentence Jim Morrison and A.W.
SHE WAS NOT even close shadow of Mr.Morrison significance.
Average, but driven by ambition and with deep nice voice girl who lost orientation.
Her parents are probably more guilty for lack of love given in her childhood.
Did she love anyone, by the way?
Did she show respect for anything btw?
Please, be realistic.
What made Morrison significant? Please share your vast knowledge of someone YOU never knew. Please, if Morrison didn’t die when he did, his significance would be nil.
Yeah, but can we get back to those Lost ‘Lost’ clips?
heroin overdose
RIP. You had your demons and hopefully you are at peace.
thank you chris why cant people ever be happy for what people acomplish. Im glad you said this it sums it up to what she was having to deal with.
Thank you Chris. Some people are being so nasty concerning the fact that a fellow human being has died.
This is the internet, not the real world. What did you expect?
@Duh,
Just because this is the internet doesn’t mean that people have to be nasty over the fact that someone died. Snark is OK for a story on the Kardashians or Paris Hilton. But cruelty and snark should be off-limits when discussing the death of a someone.
The problem with the internet is that anonymity allows people to let the worst of themselves take over.
Sad she is dead at 27.
She had talent.
She also dies of something at her own hand. She did not die of cancer. She died because she willingly did drugs from the age of 19.
If you don’t want to die, don’t do drugs. The saddest thing is that she will not be the last by a long shot.
Caren… So that’s the secret to eternal life? Don’t do drugs? Everybody’s gonna die.
And hopefully your demons can find new management positions at some other company.
Boom! Roasted.
There were a lot of good albums and meoivs in 2010! One of my favorite CDs this year was Together by The New Pornographers, and my favorite meoivs were How to Train Your Dragon, Toy Story 3 and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. It was a great year for entertainment!
Not a huge shock since she was such a mess.
sad but not shocking
Sad. I hope it wasn’t an OD…
An OD???? Amy Winehouse? Nah. Probably a bizarre toaster accident.
lol
Losers. Someone’s daughter just died.
Wow, your cruelty is only trumpted by your ignorance. Drug addiction is tough but not as tough as a cruel and insensitive heart. Your fate is far worse than hers.
Ha. Bad taste but still humorous.
and how is Esox’s comment any different from the people saying her death isn’t surprising??? C’mon people.
What you said is horrible, but it still made me crack up. Now I feel bad for laughing. :/
Nice one! Come on people…it was funny. Stop waxing poetic about someone you never even knew. There are millions and millions of children in this world that need more sympathy than Amy Winehouse.
Moronic humor is only funny to morons. The sympathy people feel isnt just about Amy but her loved ones too.
How does that explain the love for Dumb and Dumber, Airplane, and the Naked Gun movies? Moronic humor at it’s best, and loved by geniuses everywhere.
@Esox
Pardon me. I meant moronic, ill-timed and insensitive humor is only funny to morons.
@Classy! You taking the bait makes you a douche.
Lily you are such a slut. But I still love you.
@ Sarah
There was no bait douche.
IT’S NOT A JOKE.WOULD YOU BE SO STUPID IF IT WAS YOUR SISTER.AMY WAS THE STAR.TRY TO REMEMBER THAT.
ill give you 9 to 1 odds that she od,d. no doubt in my mind. she had already planned on it
she was a racist .. let this be a lesson
Winner gets her silicone implants.
Tragic, but sadly not surprising.
Not unexpected, but really sad to hear this. I didn’t even know she was that young. I was hoping she would turn her life around.
Same here. I had hoped she’d pull a Robert Downey and get her act together, but the way she was going I guess it was only a matter of time, sadly.
It took RDJ about 25 years to get his act together. Amy, unfortunately, didn’t get as many chances as he did.
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Raise your hand if you’re surprised (Looks around, sees no one raising hands…)
Actually I am surprised but then I tend to hope for the best rather than go around expecting people to die.
90% of white celebrities take drugs every day for rcnreatioeal use that’s why they died young like Michael Jackson.Even typical European and American people, a lot of them from every social economic class also use drugs or sell them on the streets. they pay their doctors tons of money to write prescriptions for those drugs including morphine, oxycodone, amphetamine.. etc so it’s still legal, its a way to cheat the system. what a corrupted and trashy society !
Welcome to the 27 Club, Amy.
That’s right. It totally slipped my mind that she was 27.
Although she didn’t look a day under 45.
LOL
She looked worn out, find Belgrade concert on Youtube. She doesn’t give a $hit for other people’s opinion. Selfishness and arrogancy. She played sexuality, but it was kind of dirtiness radiating from her.
Morrison, Hendrix,Joplin right?
And also Kurt Cobain.
And Cobain… I think.
and Brian Jones
Which will even make her MORE popular! And remembered…
And Robert Johnson.
Cobain did die at 27. Suicide.
it is Morrison, Hendrix, Joplin, Cobain, and Brian Jones… and Amy Winehouse is not talented enough to be labeled with those greats who changed music. She was just a drugged out mess who made a couple of songs. There are something like 25 other singers who died at 27 who dont get to be in the club either. Amy can join them
Jay Leno.
Windhouse was more talented than that overrated mess Cobain.
The back street boys couldn’t hold a candle to her.
There are more fine musicians that were not so exposed to media, but actually better artists. Media love jerks, drunk idiots and mindless scandalists. It sells well.
Let us remember few of Club 27 musicians that deserve way more respect than Winehouse:
Robert Johnson, iconic bluesman
Ron McKernan, Grateful Dead
Alan Wilson, Canned Heat
Pete de Freitas, Echo & the Bunnymen
Rick James Edwards, Sonic Street Preachers
Bryan Ottoson, American Head Charge
27, the age of the mini-life crisis…
I think you are obviously not dumb since you knew what mkhsoa was and I didn’t.Honestly I couldn’t figure out what the hell you were talking about there at the end. As I was writing it down, the explanation that you were experiencing cat-consciousness seemed more and more plausible.I do, however, have an explanation for your personality, and indeed for your very presence in the dream. This was a horror dream. As Erin will explain in detail if you ask her, the horror genre often resorts to a female victim as a means for eliciting fear in the reader/viewer, since women are devalued by society, considered more vulnerable, more fragile, etc. Apparently women take on those same attributes in my unconscious however fervently I might deny such an opinion in waking.For evidence of this, see . The Sherrif, the Dog-Woman, and the Dead , another chase scene/horror dream, in which I *actually play* a woman. Though in this case I must admit she is rather an ass-kicking woman.Anyhow, in The Scrimshaw Knife , it is you, El Nubo, who provide the necessary lightning rod for empathic fear. You are my sister. I am trying to protect you.
She doesn’t deserve to be in that club. This is very sad but she hasn’t done nearly enough to be mentioned in the same sentence as Cobain, Hendrix, and Joplin. Let’s find everybody who died at 34.. and then whenever anybody dies that’s 34 we all say “And they all died at age 34″!
“Hasn’t done nearly enough”? Maybe not enough to you, but the impact that Back To Black had on music as a whole is more than most musicians will ever dream of. She’s already made quite a legacy with her talent, so I think she’s done quite enough to warrant being put on the same level as the others, age and cause of death aside.
Amy Winehouse is every bit as talented, and every bit as screwed up, as Cobain, Hendrix and Joplin. And I would rather listen to Amy Winehouse than any of the others. Cobain, Hendrix and Joplin are all dated. Their music is stuck in the time period it was produced in. Winehouse’s music is a timeless weaving of Jazz and Soul.
Disagree. She had two hits that will live on, and that’s it.
The others could at least perform; she was sooo out of it she couldn’t even put on a show because she couldn’t stand still. Looks like she couldn’t eat, either.
Who is Amy Warehouse?
The club doesn’t have membership rules…only that you were a singer and died at 27. It’s not a question of talent, but a sad statistical anomaly that dates back to the 1930′s. Musical taste aside, the debate shouldn’t be whether she was “worthy”. But that it’s a sad end to a young life. Addiction isnt a 1,2,3 snap out of it type of thing. It’s a grueling back breaking process.
It’s sad to hear but I don’t think it’s surprising at all. She was on quite a downward spiral the past few months.
Rehab, Me and Mr. Jones and Back to Black are all classics. I don’t know if she could have made the music she did if she didn’t lead the life she led. Still, the loss of a great artist is sad.
Wake Up Alone and Tears Dry On Their Own…Hell, the entire album is a classic.
I’m playing it right now and my dogs are crying with me in pain.
I’m not only one who thinks that most of her music is plain boring, mix of retro feel with fine, deep voice. Not more.
Dang! I had Charlie Sheen going first!!!!
So sad a young talented life gone.
Now she can rest in peace.
Glad you lost, at least he still has something to offer entertainment wise.
He’ll be following soon.
nice
Kayne left us months ago to some alien
So sad. My heart goes out to her family and friends. My she rest in peace.
You forgot her dealer and all her enablers, at least her backup dancers can find better work now.
Idiot.
@kanye>at least she didnt die for vanity, one of the 7 deadly sins!!!!
at least she didn’t die of vanity
unless it was an antique vanity
They are all out of business now.
Jul25 In sfarsit cneiva care nu o vorbeste de rau. Am auzit oameni care spuneau ca vor da petreceri in cinstea faptului ca a murit drogata aia. Paradoxul e ca toata lumea se plange la un moment dat de situatia: Bai, cata lasitate, nu iese nimeni in fata cu ceva diferit! iar atunci cand cneiva isi face curaj este aratat cu degetul.Mi-a placut tare mult de Amy si sper sa nu fie uitata prea curand.
Stop pretending to be so sad. All you people sound like a bunch of idiotic fox news viewers who want to talk about how sad everyone’s death is. She did it to herself people, get over it.
Classic albums from a tortured artist. Some of the best music of our generation. She might have done this to herself, but that does not lessen our loss.
Some of the responses make me think of another celebrity who died recently, another victim of his own vices. I felt no sadness there, I think because the body of work he left to the world was easily overshadowed by his death. There was no substance to it at all. Amy Winehouse was all substance. She never made a single song you could discount as a cash grab. She opened her soul to us and we saw and felt the darkness, the longing, the hurt, but also the love. A true artist. Very sad.
im sorry…but are you trying to say that anyone who ‘did it to themselves’ wouldnt warrent sympathy? because those of us who have had a friend or family member who died of a drug overdose or even suicide will be happy to argue with you on that point…
Your an idiot
YES.BUT NOBODY SHOULD GLOAT ABOUT IT. A DEATH IS SERIOUS.THE INTERNET IS FOR US TO LIVE IN A MAKE BELIVE WORLD.REMEMBER.YOUR DISCUSSING HER .WHO’S DISCUSSING YOU.