Amy Winehouse, 27, found dead

Though we’re all saddened by Amy Winehouse’s joining “Club 27”, I reminisce about some of her songs and also remember other similar deaths.

One cannot stop noticing how incredibly short her career was (from wikipedia):

Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her 2006 follow-up album, Back to Black, led to six Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made Winehouse the first British singer to win five Grammys, including three of the "Big Four": Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. On 14 February 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist; she had also been nominated for Best British Album. (Back to Black was the world's seventh biggest selling album for 2008. These sales helped keep Universal Music's recorded music division from dropping to levels experienced by the overall music market). She won the Ivor Novello Award three times, one in 2004 for Best Contemporary Song (musically and lyrically) for "Stronger Than Me", one in 2007 for Best Contemporary Song for "Rehab", and one in 2008 for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for "Love Is a Losing Game", among other prestigious distinctions. The album was the third biggest seller of the 2000s in the United Kingdom.

Apparently, a slew of other musicians died at the same age: Rolling Stones founding member Brian Jones, guitarist Jimi Hendrix, singer Janis Joplin, The Doors singer Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain (AFP). The late Cobain’s mother Wendy is quoted to have said:

Now he's gone and joined that stupid club, I told him not to join that stupid club.

I am saddened by her death. Still, I can’t help wondering why is it that the death of Sean Hoare – who was first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson knew of hacking, revealing that the British Police and Scotland Yard were getting bribes from Rupert Murdoch’s minions – not being treated as suspicious, while Amy Winehouse’s death is considered “unexplained”?!

Sources / More info: wiki-winehouse, guard-sean-hoare

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