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Old 24-07-2011, 00:05
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Back To Black has already sold 2.4 million in the UK alone. Getting back to #1 will be a massive achievement!
It would and it should! Lets make it Diamond
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Old 24-07-2011, 00:06
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I just feel horrible that performance will be remembered as her last. She could have given so much more. I saw it myself.
You're very lucky. I would have loved to have seen her myself. I do remember thinking when I saw that performance that it would surely be the last one for a very long time. I was theorising that she'd release the album and hold back her tour until around a year afterwards. Sigh.
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Old 24-07-2011, 00:06
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Apparently her neighbour said she was screaming late last night.
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Old 24-07-2011, 00:11
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Apparently her neighbour said she was screaming late last night.

I hope that's not true...
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Old 24-07-2011, 00:19
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there are gonna be so many upsetting rumours circulating
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Old 24-07-2011, 00:19
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Apparently her neighbour said she was screaming late last night.


This might answer the question of who phoned the ambulance and how they found out she was dead, which is the biggest mystery in all this. But I hope to God that isn't what happened.
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Old 24-07-2011, 06:55
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prince has recorded a new accoustic version of love is a losing game with his new guitarist andy allo on vocals. it sounds incredible and spooky
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Old 24-07-2011, 08:25
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Her record company probarly release a greatest hits, people will be in shops buying her CD's and downloading them. Her music will probarly enter the charts and maybe go to Number 1. Sounding morbid, but she probarly make more money dead than a live.
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Old 24-07-2011, 15:11
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Amy is a very special singer to me. I used to be very snobby with music. Just pop music really. Hated everything else. I popped the brit awards on as nothing else was on and she had won Best Female and did a performance of one of her songs. I was amazed and stunned. I brought Back to Black and was immediatley opened up to the world of Soul and Jazz. I am forever grateful for her and that album to not only open me up to those genres, but to open me up to any genre out there.

I am still in shock and did cry when i heard the news. Long live Amy. I have since 2007 said nothing but nice things about her. I am so happy that she did two fantastic albums and bunch of B sides and live performances that i have burned to a disc which i did about 4 years ago. I truly hope she is not seen as a "junkie". I hope she is known for her iconic look with the beehive and most importantly, her amazing talent.
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Old 24-07-2011, 17:45
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Amy is a very special singer to me. I used to be very snobby with music. Just pop music really. Hated everything else. I popped the brit awards on as nothing else was on and she had won Best Female and did a performance of one of her songs. I was amazed and stunned. I brought Back to Black and was immediatley opened up to the world of Soul and Jazz. I am forever grateful for her and that album to not only open me up to those genres, but to open me up to any genre out there.

I am still in shock and did cry when i heard the news. Long live Amy. I have since 2007 said nothing but nice things about her. I am so happy that she did two fantastic albums and bunch of B sides and live performances that i have burned to a disc which i did about 4 years ago. I truly hope she is not seen as a "junkie". I hope she is known for her iconic look with the beehive and most importantly, her amazing talent.
As ever little-monster, summed up brilliantly! I mean Back To Black really opened Jazz,Soul into mainstream for the UK and literally started a British Invasion Stateside!
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Old 24-07-2011, 17:47
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Lovely to see an AT where we won't get the trolls coming in to be controversial and say rude things about her.

RIP Amy. I hope you're at peace, you'll be missed but never forgotten.
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Old 24-07-2011, 17:59
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I was at a wedding when I heard about it- I am still in shock.

I was only young when Frank came out but I bought it on impulse and listened to it several times- absolutley transfixed. For a time, nobody but me seemed to know who Amy was, but I knew it was only a matter of time before she broke through to become one of our most recognised singers. Back To Black is, in my opinion, a modern masterpiece and possibly the best British album of the last decade.

Thought I'd post this wonderful Shirelles cover by Amy- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_r-b8vbK48
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Old 24-07-2011, 18:06
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So many of my memories have Amy as the soundtrack.
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Old 24-07-2011, 18:09
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Old 24-07-2011, 18:56
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I was never really into her music but downloading some of it now to see what I was missing.
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Old 24-07-2011, 19:06
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Amy Winehouse was a deeply troubled young woman BUT a hugely talented singer/songwriter. It was inevitable that she was going to die sooner rather than later, but still to hear the news yesterday was a complete shock. For the last few years i've been saying what a waste of talent, but now of course I feel it more so. A real tragic story. She will go down in history for her contribution to music namely for the album 'Back To Black'.
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Old 24-07-2011, 19:11
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I was never really into her music but downloading some of it now to see what I was missing.
I loved her singles but never bought her albums. I'm going to do so. Partly because Amy deserves it, though I genuinely wanted to buy Back to Black at the time I just never got round to it.
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Old 24-07-2011, 20:00
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Amy Winehouse was a deeply troubled young woman BUT a hugely talented singer/songwriter. It was inevitable that she was going to die sooner rather than later, but still to hear the news yesterday was a complete shock. For the last few years i've been saying what a waste of talent, but now of course I feel it more so. A real tragic story. She will go down in history for her contribution to music namely for the album 'Back To Black'.
I think that album will be remembered as one of the most Iconic of the past decade. It was real Sex, Drugs 'N' Rock'n'Roll.

I love the video for Stronger Than Me. She was so witty.
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Old 24-07-2011, 22:25
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She has left behind some timeless songs. Hopefully more will be released. Still shocked by her death.
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Old 25-07-2011, 00:10
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Yeah it is being specualted her third album will be released incomplete with all demos and recordings for the album!

As soon it is available i will buy it, also Need Frank, i dont have that album yet. Back To Black brings back memories of 2007, and my grandma and Pap gave the album to me for Christmas along with a box of Turkish Delights that year. Back To Black always gives me that wintery vibe.

Also as an album it really was that Pop album that talked TO a generation! It was Soul of NOW, and Pop of NOW. So different and also so very true Literally it is one of those timeless records, i mean i span it yesterday and thought that could have been released last week kinda thing! And in ten years...the same....twenty years.....the same OOOMPH!
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Old 25-07-2011, 10:00
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It still hasn't really sunk in for me that she's gone...
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Old 25-07-2011, 11:08
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Yeah it is being specualted her third album will be released incomplete with all demos and recordings for the album!
I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing. On one hand, it's an incomplete piece of work and shouldn't be released. On the other hand, at least people might not be tampering with it like the awful MJ album last year.

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Old 25-07-2011, 13:15
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So sad she has gone. She would have offered us so much more but her mindspace was in another place. Her 2 albums were fantastic and I love her version of Toots and The Maytels 'Monkey Man'

I hope her soul finds peace. And I hope that the press etc dont keep coming up with crap about her. Let her rest now.
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Old 25-07-2011, 14:32
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It's just sooo sad. Amy's was a voice that could send a tingle through me in a way I honestly don't think anyone else ever did..

I don't know about the 3rd album. If there is really good material there that can be put together then good..

All I hope is that the more in the coming weeks that folk hear from Frank and Back to Black and whatever else, the more people will apppreciate that behind all the awful tragedy that her life became and ended, here was a great artist,

I just so wish in all my heart that she could have come through and trully developed and given so much more to remember her by. But she will never be forgotten by me

RIP Amy.
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Old 25-07-2011, 14:36
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I think this is such a loss, she must have been so low and probably just thought she'd take as much stuff as possible to be totally out of it. So so sad.

Wonderful music and so many lyrics I could relate to personally. Unbelieveably sad about this.
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