Amy Winehouse Dead

[WhiteCrowNZ]

Isn't part of the problem that celebs surround themselves with people who do what they want over people who do what's best for them. Hmmm and it's not just 'celebs' ...

[Stuart Wallis]

I couldn't agree with you more!

Seriously, I'd just read an interview with Coleen Nolan before coming on here, further making the point, talking about some of the guests on Loose Women. Her point was to compare, say, Whoopi Goldberg, who had no entourage and was in her words "so nice", with Rihanna And Her Thirty Stooges (my comparison), who only brought them in for "a song about an umbrella".

C'est la vie.

[Si Hunt]

According to the Sun, she may have died because her body just couldn't cope without alcohol. Quite a chilling prospect.

She recorded a song with Tony Bennett just before she died, and did an interview about having grandchildren etc.

It's looking like she was clean and on her way up, but it was too late and damage inflicted previously took its toll.

Si.

[Si Hunt]

What's also interesting is that the police are interviewing people and tracing her wareabouts in the hours before she died. It's a good point - we don't actually KNOW her death wasn't suspicious. Because of her reputation, everyone has assumed the drink and drugs got her somehow. She could well have been slipped something maliciously, for example, and I guess the police have to rule that out.

Actually, imagine if she was clean, and the toxicology reports come back clear. They may never find out how she died. The conspiracy theorists will be on it forever more.
Si.

[SiHart]

I have a feeling the toxicology reports did come back clear. Certainly there can't have been any particualr issue from the autopsy as her funeral has already been held.

[Rob McCow]

A spokesman close to Amy Winehouse's record label has said that the late singer had recorded around 12 new songs which may now see the light of day.

The anonymous commenter is said to be linked to Universal, which owns Winehouse’s label Island, and revealed that though the songs are unfinished, their "framework" was in place. She had been in and out of the studio for the last three years, according to the spokesman, who said:

Amy had expressed an interest in getting back into the studio, and after some consultation everyone thought that would be a positive thing and a distraction from the other things she was dealing with.He added:

She had put down the bare bones of tracks and some were further along than others. People were getting very excited, quite frankly they were really good. We heard rough cuts and they sounded like vintage Amy.

Universal chief executive, Lucian Grainge heard the songs as and when Winehouse was happy for him to do so. In November 2008 he spoke at the Music Industry Trust Awards, revealing that tracks he had heard sounded "sensational".

If any new material is released, it would have be decided on by her parents, as well as her label and management company, reports The Guardian.

This time last year, Winehouse explained that her third album would be released in January 2011, saying:

The album will be six months at the most. It's going to be very much the same as my second album, where there's a lot of jukebox stuff and the songs that are ... just jukebox, really.

It'll all come out, that's inevitable. I suppose the ethics of the situation hardly matter.

[Paul Clement]

According to the Sun, she may have died because her body just couldn't cope without alcohol. Quite a chilling prospect.

She recorded a song with Tony Bennett just before she died, and did an interview about having grandchildren etc.

It's looking like she was clean and on her way up, but it was too late and damage inflicted previously took its toll.

Si.

It's not about it being too late, Si. When alcoholics go for rehab, they don't stop drinking straight away, but do it in stages and under medical supervision. Of all drugs, alcohol is the most dangerous one to give up as the body can shut down. Even heroin or crack cocaine will not prove fatal when going through cold turkey, no matter how unpleasant it is. If anything, it sounds as if she may have stopped drinking too soon and you have to wonder whether she told her Doctor what she had done.

[Stuart Wallis]

The unfortunate thing, it seems, is that this suggests that by giving it up altogether, she was prepared to make a serious effort to deal with it once and for all. What an irony if that were the case.