[Devongone]

Jeez I can get depressed without any help from a dead lady with big matted hatted hair.

If watching someone edge unsteadily towards death is so attractive, why don't we all go and work in care homes?

Some of the footage of Amy is less like performance than abuse. Dying slowly as pornography. Disturbing. We've been doing it since Judy Garland. Couldn't we just celebrate life for once?

[Amelia Chaffinch]

I'd had enough before she died.

[themaclad]

TBH never overly keen let down by her family and now to some on Radio a legend, never got the same when Lynyrd Skynyrd checked out in a plane crash

[hibeejim21]

Wasn't a huge fan of hers when she was alive, but I've heard more of her stuff since she passed and it seems clear that she was the real deal.

I actually think she's a serious loss to music. Just a real shame what happened.

[ritchiebaby]

If you mean Amy Winehouse, she was indeed the real deal as far as pure singing talent is concerned. Sad to say, her personal life was a complete disaster, but that's the case of many excessively gifted performers.

[Devongone]

If you mean Amy Winehouse, she was indeed the real deal as far as pure singing talent is concerned. Sad to say, her personal life was a complete disaster, but that's the case of many excessively gifted performers.

I didn't realise I'd put Whitehouse till now! It wasn't a deliberate insult. I wouldn't do that to someone dead. Old age I suppose. Don't wanna alter it though. It happened because I was thinking of Mary Whitehouse at the time and imagining them meeting ......

My opinion was /is Amy was /is a death cult, a bit like Isis.

It was obvious she was dying. That was the attraction. How long could she survive? How would she go? She was Tracy Emin's bed - singing. Definitely art, but not much pleasure there.

[ritchiebaby]

If you mean Amy Winehouse, she was indeed the real deal as far as pure singing talent is concerned. Sad to say, her personal life was a complete disaster, but that's the case of many excessively gifted performers.

I didn't realise I'd put Whitehouse till now! It wasn't a deliberate insult. I wouldn't do that to someone dead. Old age I suppose. Don't wanna alter it though. It happened because I was thinking of Mary Whitehouse at the time and imagining them meeting ......

My opinion was /is Amy was /is a death cult, a bit like Isis.

It was obvious she was dying. That was the attraction. How long could she survive? How would she go? She was Tracy Emin's bed - singing. Definitely art, but not much pleasure there.

Without going into any great research about it, were there not a number of pop stars who died aged 27. Perhaps that's where the death cult bit came into it.

[St Charles Owl]

Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison are all members of the 27 club.

[hibeejim21]

I think Amy was drawn to the tragic stories of singers like Billie Holliday, artists who basically lived their lives and turmoil in full view. Y'know the drugs, the bad men, the chaos.... Remember she defined herself as a jazz singer but the public saw her as something different entirely, which was the roots of her downfall really.

When you turn all that shit off and just focus on her as a singer she's undeniable. Listen to her duet with Weller on you tube , or Tony Bennett where you can visibly see her fear of letting him down and how she flourishes with his almost fatherly support

Her private life wasn't really the attraction, people liked her because of her voice and songs....and because they sensed her vulnerability. Its the story of a lot of great singers.

[Lord Snooty]

Never really got into her music, but she did do some great recordings. However, I remember hearing her singing live once and she sounded terrible.