Posted July 27, 200817 yr The Sunday Times July 27, 2008 Can Amy Winehouse be saved? Her phenomenal talent has been eclipsed by her terrifying ability to self-destruct. Can anything save Amy from herself? Robert Sandall The entire piece is here From the mayhem of the past year, if Amy Winehouse has learnt anything it might be the terrible truth contained in the saying “be careful what you wish for, you might just get it”. Since giving up her whimsical teenage plan to become a roller-skating waitress, the 24-year-old Winehouse has reached a summit that few pop stars even dream of; and, as it appears, promptly thrown herself off it. To recap: her hit Rehab has soundtracked the past 22 months; her second album, Back to Black, was the biggest seller in the UK in 2007 –the album has now sold 9m copies worldwide, making it one of the biggest sellers of the 21st century; at the 2008 Grammys ceremony Winehouse received five awards, including the so-called “big 3” for song, record and pop-vocal album of the year, and she also became the first Brit to win best new artist since the jazz and soul singer Sade in 1986. She’s been hailed “a style icon” by the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel, who called her beehive hairdo “an inspiration”. She was compared to Edith Piaf, Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. Her doting pop peers include George Michael, who has saluted her as the best singer and songwriter of her generation. In a poll of British under-25-year-old girls – who know her simply as “Amy” the way they know Kate Moss as “Kate” – she was voted “ultimate heroine”. On the home front, in May 2007 she married Blake Fielder-Civil, the love of her life, “my Blake – the handsomest man you will ever meet”, as she called him during a recent performance. And what has all this brought her? A severe drug habit that may have permanently damaged her lungs. (The picture of Amy sucking on a crack pipe that appeared on the front page of a tabloid in January confirmed, in lurid detail, precisely the nature of a problem that those close to her had been aware of for some time.) And a drink problem, allied to a proneness to get punchy in public. “If I have 20 units I can get violent, particularly if I am unhappy,” Winehouse said in 2006, and went on to prove it outside a couple of pubs in Camden. Meanwhile, images portraying her self-harming, her drastic weight loss and her indiscreet sexual liaisons – she once said: “I know so many men I’d rather have sex with for two hours than talk to for two minutes” – have been relayed around the world by bottom-feeding paparazzi and marauding fans with camera phones who have staked out her London homes. Etc......................................... Do you think Amy Winehouse can recover, or do you think she is going to be this generation's Kurt Cobain?
August 19, 200816 yr I don't think she will. She is a very corrupt and fragile person and I'm reluctant to say we will ever see a 3rd album. Devestating.
August 19, 200816 yr It would be wonderful if she could, but honestly i dont see it happening im afraid.
August 19, 200816 yr I don't think she will as well, and if she does it won't be for 10/15 years yet, and she'll become known for just two amazing albums instead of having a series of great ones.
