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Amy, 27 (Paperback)
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Amy, 27 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R310
Discovery Miles 3 100
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The death of Amy Winehouse at the age of 27 was a tragedy. She was
one of the brightest music stars in years -a brilliant, original
song writer with a mighty voice and great personal charm. Amy was
loveable, but troubled. She was as notorious for her messy personal
life, drug addiction and alcoholism, as she was celebrated for her
songs, and her death in 2011, while shocking, was not unexpected.
Amy was also the latest in a series of iconic music stars who died
at the same young age; starting with Brian Jones of the Rolling
Stones whose death in 1969 was followed by Jimi Hendrix and Janis
Joplin in 1970, Jim Morrison in 1971, and Kurt Cobain in 1994. All
were gifted. All were dissipated. All were 27. The 27 Club was
first used as a collective term for these lost souls after a
comment by Kurt Cobain's mother. 'He's gone and joined that stupid
club,' she said after Kurt shot himself. 'I told him not to ...' In
this ground-breaking book, Howard Sounes delivers a detailed and
insightful study of Amy Winehouse's life, and sets that life in the
context of the 27 Club. That six big music stars died at 27 --
along with 44 less well-known names -- is on one level a
coincidence. But behind this coincidence Sounes reveals is a
disturbing common narrative that explains how these artists met
their fate, and casts new light on Amy's death in particular.
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