{"id":11788,"date":"2011-07-23T13:31:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T17:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=11788"},"modified":"2011-11-17T20:43:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T01:43:12","slug":"i-hoped-it-was-a-hoax-but-amy-winehouse-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/i-hoped-it-was-a-hoax-but-amy-winehouse-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hoped It Was a Hoax, but Amy Winehouse Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sure, she was a wreck for years, but people have come back from worse places, so I always hoped Amy Winehouse would pull herself together. Like MichaelK of Dlisted<\/a> said, “I thought Amy Winehouse would outlive us all and make a million more albums and throw spit bombs at a million more bitchy fans. You know, like Keef Richards or Courtney Love.” Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be, and the talented and troubled singer has joined music’s sad 27 Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Young and healthy Amy Winehouse, before the effects of addiction.<\/p><\/div>\n

The first report I saw was a tweet from Sky News<\/a>. In these days of hoaxes and hackings, one report does not a celebrity death confirm, so I tweeted asking if anyone had seen independent confirmation. I was flooded by tweets saying this newspaper reported it, that newspaper reported it, etc. But if a thousand websites all refer to one report, you have just that: ONE report. Eventually — and unfortunately — the police confirmed that “a 27-year-old woman<\/a>” had died at Amy’s flat and I had to believe. So disappointing. I will always treasure her music, her beehive, her awesome eyeliner and her “Blake incarcerated” Grammy speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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UPDATED TO ADD: Here’s another nice photo of Amy from 2003<\/a>. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sure, she was a wreck for years, but people have come back from worse places, so I always hoped Amy Winehouse would pull herself together. Like MichaelK of Dlisted said, “I thought Amy Winehouse would outlive us all and make a million more albums and throw spit bombs at a million more bitchy fans. You…<\/p>\n

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