If the people of Belgrade wanted note-perfect versions, perhaps they should have stayed at home and listened to the records. First pressing has white hand stamped labels with Amy Winehouse figure and comes in black vinyl on a limited edition run of 200 copies. The Back to Black hitmaker had downed so much booze in the hours before her death she was almost WINEHOUSE DEATH WAS MISADVENTURE AMY WINEHOUSE died as an unintended consequence of. Though admittedly hindered by booze, the musician in Winehouse is still trying to put a new spin on songs she must be heartily sick of by now. WINEHOUSE DEATH WAS MISADVENTURE AMY WINEHOUSE died as an unintended consequence of drinking too much alcohol, a coroner ruled on Wednesday (26Oct11). Her rendition of Just Friends is listless (to put it mildly), but it never had much of a tune in the first place. Sure she sings around the tune, but she's always done that – she's a jazz singer.
Yet watching her rendition of Back to Black on YouTube, to my ears it's not even that bad. The five-time Grammy winner last spoke to her security. Winehouse is now typecast as a troubled diva. Amy Winehouse may have been dead for up to six hours before a security guard found her body in bed at around 4 p.m. When Robbie Williams has a wardrobe malfunction – according to the Sun, his penis fell out onstage in Dublin – it's a laugh rather than a cause for concern. When Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner stops singing Mardy Bum and lets the crowd take over, people applaud it as a communal moment. As music critic Simon Price pointed out on Twitter, when Bob Dylan renders his back catalogue unrecognisable, as he did in London's Finsbury Park at the weekend, people think he's a maverick genius.
Yet was the gig really that bad? While addiction is clearly no laughing matter, the elements of the gig Winehouse is being pilloried for are praised in other musicians. Much has been made of the fact that audience members paid £35 a ticket in a country where the average wage is £274 a month – though that is hardly her fault. Even Serbian defence minister Dragan Sutanovac put the boot in, calling it "a huge shame and a disappointment".Īudience members have inundated YouTube with clips from the concert showing a sozzled Winehouse leading a startled backing dancer to sing Valerie, taking her shoe off for no apparent reason, and giving up halfway through Just Friends in order to introduce the band – whose names she struggles to remember. Amy Winehouse's gig in Belgrade has been called the worst concert ever to take place in the city.
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