Tag Archives: Amy Winehouse

The Very Best Of Amy Winehouse, Lyric Writer

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on December 2nd, 2011

Although we’re all still painfully aware that Amy Winehouse is no longer with us, it’s only just beginning to become clear exactly what a loss she has been as a musical talent. And not because her next album would’ve ...

Adele Caps Record-Breaking 2011 With Six Grammy Nominations

By Kevin Wicks | Posted on November 30th, 2011

That Adele would cap her astonishing, record-annihilating 2011 with a slew of Grammy nominations was a foregone conclusion. She is Grammy voter catnip. (She already won Best New Artist a few years back.

Coroner: Winehouse’s Death Was the Result of Alcohol Poisoning

By Paul Hechinger | Posted on October 26th, 2011

The formal inquest into Amy Winehouse’s death has concluded that she died of alcohol poisoning. Tests found her blood alcohol levels to be five times the legal limit for driving, enough to affect her breathing and put her into a ...

News Roundup: Adele’s Throat Unharmed By Smoking

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on October 10th, 2011

I know, it’s the first thing I thought too. Here’s Adele with a recurring throat problem, in which she blows her own voice out time and again, and apparently it has nothing to do with her fondness for the gaspers ...

News Roundup: James McAvoy To Play Elton John?

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 23rd, 2011

Film biopics of musicians often follow a very similar pattern. There’s the childhood trauma, the discovery of talent, the struggling to get noticed, the fame, the drugs, the trouble that comes with success/fame/drugs, and the ...

News Roundup: Colin Firth’s Kids Take His Oscar To School

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 13th, 2011

Can I begin with a question? If you had won an Academy Award for being the best actor in the world, where would you keep the trophy? On the mantelpiece? On the hood of your car? On a chain around your neck at all times?

WATCH: Tony Bennett And Amy Winehouse In The Studio

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 9th, 2011

This already feels like a transmission from an alternate reality, one in which the happy, tanned and smiling girl, singing her dad’s favorite song with his favorite singer, is still with us.

News Roundup: Adele’s Next Album Won’t Be About Her (New) Ex

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 5th, 2011

Adele’s first album 19 was written largely about her first major boyfriend and the turmoil she went through when they broke up. Her second album 21 was written after she split with her second major boyfriend, and that is why it ...

MTV VMAs Belonged to Three UK Singers – Jessie J, Adele, and Amy Winehouse

By Kevin Wicks | Posted on August 29th, 2011

Katy Perry wore a cheese on her head. Nicki Minaj wore a SARS mask. Lady Gaga, not content to choose her fashions from a meat locker, well, she underwent a sex change.