Comments on: Goodbye to Amy

By: MCatherine

MCatherine — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 20:35:46 +0000

Starry Starry Night—
how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
perhaps they’ll listen now.

For they could not love you
but still your love was true

and when no hope was left in sight on that starry
starry night.
You took your life
as lovers often do;
But I could have told you
Vincent (Amy)
this world was never
meant for one
as beautiful as you.

By: WendyB

WendyB — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:37:16 +0000

Somehow, I always thought things would work out for her too. So sad.

By: jlynn

jlynn — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:06:34 +0000

Also, if you haven’t seen it, you might appreciate Russel Brand’s blog post “For Amy”: http://t.co/VeAk6DG

“… From her oddly dainty presence that voice, a voice that seemed not to come from her but from somewhere beyond even Billie and Ella, from the font of all greatness. A voice that was filled with such power and pain that it was at once entirely human yet laced with the divine. My ears, my mouth, my heart and mind all instantly opened. Winehouse. Winehouse? Winehouse! That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I’d only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound. So now I knew. She wasn’t just some hapless wannabe, yet another pissed up nit who was never gonna make it, nor was she even a ten-a-penny-chanteuse enjoying her fifteen minutes. She was a fucking genius…”

By: jlynn

jlynn — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:00:51 +0000

SW, thank you for posting this- i’m sorry to say that until now i’d only ever heard “Rehab”, and I may never have heard Amy’s other music if I hadn’t seen this.
I always ignored “news” about her troubles. It sickened me to hear the cruel gossip and vicious criticism heaped on her when she was obviously suffering so terribly, so I reflexively tuned out any mention of her in the media. I’m grateful to you for sharing such a beautiful example of her talent, especially in a setting where she was being recognized, appreciated, and honored for her extraordinary gift.

I’m also grateful for your touching tribute to Amy; there is so much evidence of cruelty in the world, and it’s comforting to see someone express kindness, empathy, respect, and love for a ‘stranger’…

By: daisy

daisy — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:41:23 +0000

thank you for this tribute. i’m sick to death of all the awful pictures and comments people are making about this amazing person. i know firsthand what it is like to have a drug addicted child. it’s hard for me to believe that people still think addiction is a choice. drugs don’t care how beautiful, talented, loved, rich or smart your are. rest in peace amy.

By: Ruth Johnston

Ruth Johnston — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:05:27 +0000

I was also so sad to hear that she had died.. apart from the fact she died on my birthday.. I too thought she was off to the Caribbean to get clean again so that she could come back and dazzle us .. gutted for her family xx

By: Cricket9

Cricket9 — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:09:22 +0000

Andra, thank you – that’s exactly what I was saying. Did not mean disrespect to anyone’s feelings, and especially not to SW feelings.

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:36:49 +0000

Russell Brand’s piece on her is the most affecting and genuine I’ve read. Here if you haven’t seen it;
http://www.russellbrand.tv/2011/07/for-amy/

She’d looked better recently and seemed to be conquering the drugs, but not the drink. The new boyfriend seemed to be better for her than that waster she was with before. We may never find out what happened on Friday night, but her mum seemed to think it was coming.
I read today she spend Â£130,000 putting a friend through rehab despite her own habit. I get the impression she put everything into everyone else and nothing into herself. Very sad, and I’m so fed up of people comparing deaths as if one life was more valid than another.

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:06:31 +0000

Andra – Thank you my dear, xoxo

Judy – Well, we can never know what was anyone’s downfall. Personally, I believe that some children come into the world poorly equipped for life’s slings and arrows etc etc. “Nature loads the gun, environment pulls the trigger.”

And I’m glad you took the time to clarify your thoughts.

By: Judy

Judy — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:59:07 +0000

Sister Wolf I have compassion. And I can empathise with Amy – she was a blindingly talented, slightly chubby, disarmingly honest, sweet Jewish girl, who I believe, got caught up in the superficial and insincere world of showbiz. So she didn’t eat, covered the body she hated in tattoos, eased her troubles with drugs and clung to a man to make her feel safe. Her downfall was she wasn’t fake in the fakest industry of them all.

In a perverse way I don’t think someone could make music so real and knowing without feeling that pain and emotion to the extent Amy obviously did in her life.

I still have my views. But I do still feel sorry for her to an extent.

And your blog is beautiful, it inspired me to comment online, something which I very rarely do.