Amy Winehouse Lost Her Battle With Drug and Alcohol Addiction
Drug Addiction: Amy Winehouse Lost Her Battle with Drug and Alcohol Addiction
Amy Winehouse was found dead in her apartment today. The death is listed as unexplained. In the end, Winehouse was better known for her brushes with the law and drug addiction than she was for her talent, and she was talented. She had a wonderful voice and a great musical style.
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Drug Addiction: Amy Winehouse found dead in London apartment; drug overdose suspected
LONDON – Troubled Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse was found dead this afternoon at her London home. The “Back To Black” singer — whose meteoric rise to fame has been dogged by her well-documented struggles with drug addiction — was found by paramedics around 4 p.m. London time. She was 27. PHOTOS: AMY…
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Drug Addiction: Amy Winehouse Found Dead in Home
Amy Winehouse, the volatile singer whose career was rocked by drug addiction and alcohol abuse, has died. She was 27.
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Drug Addiction: Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen 1982
Good quality video recorded live in the studio of Top Of The Pops 1982, Dexys Midnight Runners are a British pop group with soul influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid-1980s. They are best known for their songs “Come On Eileen” and “Geno”, both of which went No.1 on the UK Singles Chart. Kevin Rowland (vocals, guitar, at the time going under the pseudonym Carlo Rolan) and Kevin “Al” Archer (vocals, guitar), both previously of The Killjoys, founded the band in 1978 in Birmingham, England, naming the band after Dexedrine, a brand of dextroamphetamine popularly used as a recreational drug among Northern Soul fans at the time. The “midnight runners” referred to the energy the Dexedrine gave, enabling one to dance all night. “Big” Jim Paterson (trombone), Geoff “JB” Blythe (saxophone, previously of Geno Washington’s Ram Jam Band), Steve “Babyface” Spooner (alto saxophone), Pete Saunders (keyboard), Pete Williams (bass) and Bobby “Jnr” Ward (drums) formed the first line-up of the band to record a single, “Dance Stance” (1979). The song was released on the independent Oddball Records, was named “single of the week” by Sounds, and reached number 40 in the British charts, but the next single, “Geno” — about Geno Washington, and released on EMI — was a British Number One in 1980. It featured the band’s newest recruits, Andy Leek (keyboards) and Andy “Stoker” Growcott (drums). Rowland had been taken to see Washington perform live by his brother when he …
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