What a difference a day makes in the life of Amy Winehouse. She looked almost innocent before flying to her Saturday night Glastonbury gig.
But last night she was back at her London clinic after a shambolic gig that included punching a fan in the face as she left the stage to sing.
She had begun confident but got forgetful, slurry and angry – making me wonder if there was something in the drink she was sipping. As she rambled between songs, spat and called Kanye West rude names, the crowd turned on her.
The police received no complaints and last night said there would be no investigation.
Meanwhile backstage, White Stripes rocker Jack White raved: “Amy’s a treasure, the Janis Joplin of our generation. The crowd don’t appreciate her.”
Mates feared the stress of Glasto could get Amy back on drugs after two weeks of detox. Judging from her antics, it seems their fears may be realized.
A publicist for Amy Winehouse’s record label has said that the singer’s father misspoke in a statement to the press about Wino’s health. The publicist said “She is not diagnosed with full-blown emphysema, but instead has early signs of what could lead to emphysema.” In a new interview with BBC Radio, Daddy Wino downplayed his doomsday statements saying “”Amy really hasn’t got emphysema, there’s traces of emphysema. Obviously, if she doesn’t quit smoking, it’s going to get worse, like everyone else … with patience her lungs will recover completely.” He also said that performing might do his daughter some good saying “When she’s been inactive work-wise then that’s when the problems really start. The doctors have said that medically there isn’t any reason why she can’t do Glastonbury.”
Amy Winehouse was only supposed to be kept overnight at the hospital after her fainting spell at her London home on Monday but test results on Tuesday prevented that as her results were inconclusive. Is it that hard to analyze her blood having traces of crack, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and whatever else? A rep for Wino spoke of her extended stay saying “She’s staying there for the time being. They are still not quite sure what happened and the tests were inconclusive. Doctors want to get to the bottom of it before releasing her. There will be further tests and they will keep her under observation. She seems to be fine … but they are taking their time to be sure.”
According to new reports, Amy Winehouse is paying five inmates to protect her husband Blake Fielder-Civil safe from other prisoners and actually shells out around $2,000 a month to support his drug habit behind bars. That is so pathetic. Wino’s husband had the guts to beat someone in a bar and offered to pay people off to stay quiet about it. That alone says that he’s capable of taking care of himself. Wino is being so pathetic when it comes to her junky husband. And she’s supporting a drug habit! Maybe she was the one who supported Pete Doherty’s drug habit during his latest stint in jail too.
Amy Winehouse has released a statement via her publicist after her embarrassing and unprofessional performance at the Rock in Rio festival in Portugal this past weekend. “Amy was overwhelmed by the goodwill shown by the audience in Lisbon and even apologized for her below par vocals on stage, after suffering from a sore throat all week. She was given the option to cancel, but was determined to take her first step back on to the live scene and although her throat was not at 100 per cent, Amy felt it important for fans to see that she is back working at her craft. She will continue to her comeback at events throughout the summer.” The only craft she’s making is making a fool out of herself.
The Zutons want to work with Amy Winehouse but are wary of her wild side.
The British band say they would like to collaborate with the troubled singer - who recorded a version of their hit track ‘Valerie’ with super producer Mark Ronson - but fear they couldn’t keep up with her on a night out.
Frontman Dave McCabe explained: “I really like her version of ‘Valerie’. I think it’s a totally positive thing, plus we get paid for it! I’d like to have a go at working with her, but I’m not sure what we’d do. I don’t know if I’d go out with her though - if we took her to Liverpool, she would probably get us into loads of s**t like she does in London when she is drunk, only it would be worse.”
The original version of ‘Valerie’ reached number nine in the British singles chart when it was released in June 2006, while Amy and Mark’s version hit the number two spot last October.
Amy Winehouse has been warned by her label to keep out of trouble – or NEVER release another album.
Chiefs at Universal issued the stern ultimatum that the druggy singer can only put out another CD if she is clean. The firm’s European head honcho, Lucian Grainge, made a similar threat earlier this year to get her into rehab after press exposed footage of her smoking crack.
But label bosses have watched her slip back to her old ways and have reminded her of the conditions of releasing a third record. A source revealed: “Amy has been reminded of her responsibilities. Unless she is clean she will not be allowed to release another album. She took notice when Lucian talked to her earlier in the year and agreed to go to rehab. But she didn’t take it seriously enough. They would never release her from her deal, they would just not put an album out.”
Amy’s label are now privately accepting there will be no album until 2009 after she scrapped plans to start recording in the Bahamas. And my source added: “The label were not impressed. She has been warned about her behaviour and needs to keep the standards up.”
Universal’s stance suggests this could be the last album of her deal. Otherwise they would be churning something out to capitalise on her fame. And while it’s commendable they are taking a tough stand, I think Universal need Amy more than she needs them.
Sure, we know Vince Gill was joking, but anyone should know Kanye is always looking for someone to slam. Well, tonight he got slammed.
Vince stepped onstage to accept an award from former Beatle Ringo Starr. Vince was also nominated for Album of the Year, as was Kanye. When he accepted the award, he said, “I just got an award given to me by a Beatle. Have you had that happen yet, Kanye?”
I expected Kanye to leap to the stage and beat him down. Vince said later that he was just having some fun. “He was laughing. I’m a smartass. You know, I can’t help it. He seemed to think that he and Amy Winehouse were the only ones worth of the album of the year tonight.”
Yeah, Vince, you won’t be laughing when you get shanked.
Looks like Amy Winehouse will be having a late night on Sunday. She may have been denied in getting a visa by the US embassy in London but the multiple Grammy nominee will be performing at the biggest night in music. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Wino will be appearing and performing via satellite. If she wins any awards, she will be accepting via satellite as well.
The Grammy’s broadcast live at 8PM Eastern. Even if Amy is to open the show or is one of the first to perform, she won’t go on earlier than 1AM Monday morning, London time. If she wins Album of the Year, the last award, she won’t go to bed until 4AM. The girl needs some rest! She’s in rehab after all.
Doing song covers is a pretty in thing right now. I’m sure we can all remember how many covers Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella’ had. She even covered that herself! But how about a cover of a cover?
The wonderful James Morrison has just done a great cover of the song ‘Valerie’. It was recently done by the British pop wreck known as Amy Winehouse on Mark Ronson’s latest album. The tune was originally done by the Zutons and it was all rock ‘n’ roll while Ronson and Wino put their trademark sound on it. James’ version offers a soulful and “hippy” vibe on the new classic.
Amy Winehouse plans to add to her sizeable collection of body art as she believes it will give her strength. Amy believes that having the Native American eagle feather tattooed across her shoulders will help boost her confidence and keep her safe whilst Blake is in jail.
A source said: “Amy already has a Native American feather on her inner arm because it symbolises courage, strength and spirituality but she somehow feels it let her down as she has lost her courage and strength. So she has asked a well-known tattooist in Camden Town, north London, to design a much bigger one for her shoulders. The feather is symbolic to Native Americans of prayers rising to the heavens.”
Amy, whose body art already includes a shirt pocket with the word ‘Blake’s’ on her chest and several etchings of ladies and hearts on her arms, believes the new tattoo will also help her focus on her career.
The source added: “It is a desperate attempt to find strength to deal with her situation, which she knows is spinning out of control”
Whilst hubby turns to God for strength, Winehouse turns to ink. Each to their own I guess.
Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood has urged troubled star Amy Winehouse to ditch her husband Blake Fielder-Civil. The guitarist has lost countless music industry friends to drug addictions throughout the years - and fears Winehouse will head the same way if she doesn’t start surrounding herself with “winners.” I think that’s the most sensible piece of advice that I have heard come from an artist in a long time, the singer has got it right and that’s because he went through hell himself only to realize that if you wannabe loved then you have to keep clean and stir away from drugs. Also the winner concept is great, a bunch of losers can be great party buffs but when it comes to performance the lack the zeal to conquer and be the best because winning is a habit, how much you want win depends solely upon oneself and if Amy wants to be an all timer then she has to rid of the people around her.
We’ve feared for her when she had a reported drug overdose. And then she disappeared to “recuperate” but now, Amy Winehouse is out and about and even spoke exclusively to News of the World about her health scare.
“It was one of the most terrifying moments of my life. It was just crazy—one of the most terrifying moments of my life. I don’t know how to explain what happened. I don’t really know myself. I can’t remember what I looked like. I couldn’t recognize myself. It was terrifying—I was terrified. I was so out of control. It just happened. It shocked me. I’m sorry—I just don’t know what got into me. I never want to feel that way again. I’ve scared myself this time. I was all over the place. I know things have got to change. I have to sort myself out. I’m fine. I’ll be back at work on Monday. I’m fine, honest.”
Amy Winehouse was hospitalized earlier this week after suffering from a reported drug overdose (covered up with an ‘exhaustion’ excuse). A close family member says that the singer who repeatedly said no to rehab is now IN rehab.
But that’s just a fantasy.
After the 3-day drug binge that resulted in her hospitalization, Wino is still saying no to rehab. She instead locked herself in a London hotel room to recover from whatever she was on.
She needs help. Lots of it. Otherwise, she’s going to end up having one of those ‘E! True Hollywood Stories’ things that speak of her tragedy in the very near future.
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