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| With then-husband Blake Fielder-Civil |
September 14, 1983
Amy Winehouse is born in London to Mitch, a cab driver, and his wife, Janis, a pharmacist. At 12, she gets into the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School. She’s expelled before graduation.
2003
January: Meets Blake Fielder-Civil, a music video gofer, at a local bar.
October: Debut album Frank is released in the UK.
2004
July: Frank is nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, as well as two Brit Awards.
2006
October: Back to Black is released in the UK.
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| At Magistrates Court in Milton Keynes last year |
2007
February: Wins British female solo artist at the Brit Awards.
March: Back to Black is released in the US and enters Billboard at No. 7 with sales of 51,000 copies.
May: Marries Fielder-Civil in Miami.
August: Photos of a battered and dishevelled Amy surface. She denies allegations her husband beat her through blogger Perez Hilton’s website.
October: The couple are arrested in Bergen, Norway, for possession of marijuana and held overnight.
November 1: Wins the artists’ choice award at MTV Europe Music Awards in Germany, followed by a shaky performance of Back to Black.
November 8: Winehouse’s home is raided. Her husband, facing trial on a charge of assaulting a bartender in June, is subsequently arrested on suspicion of trying to fix the trial’s outcome.
November 14: Exits stage after fans boo the first performance of her UK tour and goes on to cancel remaining appearances.
December: Arrested and released after questioning in connection to her husband’s criminal case.
2008
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| With her goddaughter Dionne Bromfield |
January 22: Video of Winehouse purportedly smoking crack is posted by The Sun. Scotland Yard detectives review footage.
January 24: Enters rehab.
February: Rehab wins Grammy Awards for Song and Record of the year, and Winehouse gets Best New Artiste, Pop Album and Female Vocal Performance. She performs, via satellite from London, Rehab and You Know I’m No Good.
April: Admits to British police that she slapped a man’s face with her hand. She apologises for the offence, considered common assault, and is held overnight after turning herself in.
June 23: Following reports by Winehouse’s father that she has emphysema, Winehouse’s representative issues a clarification, stating that the singer has signs of what could lead to early stages of the disease.
June 28: Appears to throw a punch at a fan during her performance at the UK’s Glastonbury Festival. A festival organiser says that the fan had tried to grab her breasts.
July: Briefly hospitalised for what is described as an adverse reaction to medication with later reports of a drinking game involved.
2009
March: Arrested and charged with common assault after a woman claims that the singer hit her in the eye at a Prince’s Trust Charity Ball. Winehouse pleads not guilty and is eventually cleared.
May: Returns to the stage, appearing at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival and is criticised for her woozy performance.
August: Divorce from Fielder-Civil becomes final. He had filed on charges of adultery; in March, Winehouse had been quoted in a magazine saying, “I won’t let him divorce me.”
October: Introducing Dionne Bromfield is the first album released on Winehouse’s new label, Lioness Records. Singer Bromfield, then 13, is Winehouse’s goddaughter.
December: Is again charged with common assault, as well as a public order offence, after attacking the house manager of a theatre.
2010
January: Pleads guilty to the December charges, is granted a two-year conditional discharge.
December: A wealthy Russian businessman pays Winehouse a reported $1.5 million for a private performance in Moscow.
2011
March: Records a duet version of Body and Soul with Tony Bennett for his album Duets II, set for release on September 20.
May: Checks into the Priory Clinic, remains there for a week.
June: Performs what is scheduled as the first date of a European concert tour, in Belgrade. She seems shaky and incoherent, and is booed by the crowd and panned by the press. She pulls out of two subsequent shows and cancels the tour a few days later.
July 20: Makes her final appearance, joining Bromfield on stage at the iTunes Festival in Camden to sing Mama Said.
July 23: Found dead in her London apartment at age 27.
The ‘Forever 27’ Club
In a quirk of fate or what is perhaps the greatest myth in the world of rock and roll, Amy Winehouse joins some of music’s greatest stars who died at the age of 27
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Robert johnson
Legendary blues singer and musician. Recorded the very famous and influential set of 29 songs that influenced many famous musicians after him. Considered the first of the 27 Club, there have been different accounts and theories attempting to shed light on the cause of his death although typically credited to strychnine poisoning.
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BRIAN JONES
The guitarist and founder member of the Rolling Stones was found dead at the bottom of his farmhouse swimming pool on July 2, 1969, under the influence of alcohol and drugs. The coroner stated ‘death by misadventure’.
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KURT COBAIN
The troubled lead-singer of American grunge rock band Nirvana overdosed on champagne and sedatives before shooting himself in the room above his garage in his Seattle home where he was discovered on April 8, 1994.
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JANIS JOPLIN
American folk singer and queen of psychedelic soul died of a heroin overdose, possibly combined with the effects of alcohol. She was found in her Hollywood apartment on October 4, 1970.
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RICHEY EDWARDS
The lead guitarist of Welsh band Manic Street Preachers went missing in February 1995, prior to the band’s promo tour of America. His body was never found, but he was officially presumed dead in 2008.
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JIMI HENDRIX
The legendary electric guitarist collapsed at a party in London on September 18, 1970. Asphyxiated on his own vomit brought on by an overdose of sleeping pills.
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JIM MORRISON
Poet, rockstar and The Doors’ frontman died supposedly of a heart attack while taking a bath in his Paris apartment on July 3, 1971. The previous day, he had complained of vomiting blood. His death certificate states he died of ‘natural causes’.
