Amy Winehouse Not Dead Yet: Record Sales Shooting Up
“AMY: We’re not like Sid & Nancy,” says the Sun’s front page.
Indeed. And we’d like to add that Amy and her husband Blake are also not Peters & Lee, Richard & Judy, not Renee & Renata.
“We’re not going to end up dead like Sid and Nancy,” the Sun hears them vow in close harmony.
The couple are so very much in love that Blake has taken to carrying a picture of he and his loved one around with him. “I like having it with me,” says Blake. “It’s beautiful. It reminds me what we have together.”
That he should have the framed picture tucked under one arm as he walks through Gatwick Airport with his wife tucked under the other will add grist to the mill of they who warn of the effects of drugs on the memory.
But Amy will not succumb. Says she: “We are not going to end up like them [Sid & Nancy etc.].We’re in love and have everything to live for.”
But the Mirror says rock stars are twice as likely to suffer premature death as the rest of the population.
A study by a Professor Mark Bellis looked at 1,000 singers from Europe and the US who had shot to fame between 1956 and 1999. Says the Mirror: “There were 100 deaths – 9.6 percent were men and 7.3 per cent were women.”
It’s the kind of statistic that goes to show that rockers are not like the rest of us, and journalists deal in words not numbers. Pop stars are a breed and a sex apart.
And that makes them marketable. Or not. As the Star says: “FANS SAY NO, NO, NO TO JUNKIE AMY SONGS.”
And the Mirror puts it: “Amy gets higher. DRUGS SCANDALS SEND RECORD SALES SOARING.”
Well, the drugs never did Sid and Nancy’s earning power any harm…
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Posted: 4th, September 2007 | In: Tabloids Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
Comments
September 5th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Give her more drugs - lots and lots of them - then it will all be over and we can worry about people who really matter.
Maybe she could take that shit Pete Doherty with her - now that would be sweet.
September 5th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Anonymous Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Dyslexic typing my ass!…you been doing drugs again David?
Well yes I am, but these days they’re for Diabetis, Arthritis, and blood pressure.
Not as much fun but they keep me alive!
September 5th, 2007 at 9:16 am
After what I had to pay for cabs in London yesterday I have to agree!!
September 4th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Her dad’s a cabbie - she didn’t stand chance…
September 4th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
after seeing the horror of her inlaws and parents slugging it out in public and wallowing happily in the spotlight of her celebrity, I can see why the pair of them take everything they can find.
Even I might be tempted!!!
September 4th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Appling?
Dyslexic typing!
September 4th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Redemption, it seems, is valued more highly than just doing the right thing in the first place.
That being the case, I’ll be appling for sainthood immediately.
September 4th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Who cares?
Hey children, don’t bother with your exams, say YES to drugs and you will be rich and famous just like these people.
If she was broke and lived on a council estate she would be scum, but seeing as she is a ‘celebrity’ it is perfectly acceptable to do exactly what we try to educate children not to do. And surely posessing and taking heroin etc must be against the law? Oh sorry I forgot again, celebrity, so thats OK.
I once saw one of these awards programmes on the box where some kid had fallen into a world of drugs and crime to feed his addiction, even mugging old ladies. However he has done really well and got clean and now helps others get off the drugs so here, have this nice shiny award. WHAT ABOUT THE KID WHO SAID NO IN THE FIRST PLACE - NO PRIZE FOR HIM.
What a fucking world we live in!