Winehouse & 27
By Wink
Amy Winehouse has been found dead. Very sad.
She was a Grammy winner. I knew that, but never really knew too much else about her. Okay, I knew that her reputation as drunk or drug-addled led her to being the number one comic punch line to describe someone as drunk or drug-addled.
And that would be all I would know about her until she died.
Due to her reputation, it would be easy to rip her as a bad example, but that would be unfair… so I looked up her music catalogue, and gave it a listen.
It turns out she had some singing chops, a nice bluesy voice with some soulfulness to it. I can see why she had a decent following. To her credit she was not easily categorized, blending R & B with soul and jazz. Sample some of her songs and you will see what I mean.
Sadly, she walked a self-destructive path, which led to an almost inevitable conclusion. Maybe she is at peace now…
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I am not at all in to numerology, but, as you know by now, Winehouse has joined a list of famous musical artists who died at the age of 27.
This list includes Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Brian Jones.
(Hey, forget the numerology, look at how many of these people have “J” in their names. Coincidence? I think not…)
As gifted as she was, I don’t think the musical accomplishments of Amy Winehouse approach the others on the ‘age 27’ list.
It doesn’t matter what I think though, because publicity and/or notoriety have to be figured in, and Winehouse had those in spades…
Is being dead at 27 significant? Nope. There are lots of premature deaths throughout music history….
Mozart died at 35, Hank Williams at 29, Richie Valens at 17, Buddy Holly at 22, Harry Chapin at 38 and Jim Croce at 30.
If I had the time or inclination I could make a list of other famous people who died at 35 or 29 or 17 or 22. Those lists wouldn’t mean anything either.
Had Mozart, Hank, Valens, Holly, Chapin and Croce ALL also died at 27, we may have had something to discuss…
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