History Music / AmyWinehouse

** And, in the 2018 MAD stories about the 27 Club, this became her superpower.

* TheAlcoholic: The unfortunate side effect of fame...which eventually killed her.

* BrieferThanTheyThink: Only released two albums, but opened up the door for everyone from Music/LadyGaga to Music/{{Adele}} and Music/JessieJ.

She also had myriad personal problems, however, including drug and alcohol abuse and depression, which made her a tabloid magnet and ruined her marriage. She was working on a third album when she was [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237 found dead in her London flat]] on 23 July 2011, becoming the latest in a long line of musicians to die at the age of 27.

->''"I've come to the realization that life is short, you've got to seize the day."''

->''"For you I was a flame / love is a losing game."''

* HammerspaceHair: In 2008, Amy was filmed taking cocaine on stage, after apparently taking the vial out of her hair. ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' once suggested in a comic-strip parody of ''ComicStrip/{{Cathy}}'' called "Amy!" that she hid drugs in her beehive hairdo. [[AccidentallyAccurate They thought they were joking...]]

* HammerspaceHair: In 2008, Amy was filmed taking cocaine on stage, after apparently taking the vial out of her hair. ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' once suggested in a comic-strip parody of ''ComicStrip/{{Cathy}}'' called "Amy!" that she hid drugs in her beehive hairdo. They thought they were joking...

* HammerspaceHair: In 2008, Amy was filmed taking cocaine on stage, after apparently taking the vial out of her hair.
** ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' once suggested in a comic-strip parody of ''ComicStrip/{{Cathy}}'' called "Amy!" that she hid drugs in her beehive hairdo. [[AccidentallyAccurate They thought they were joking...]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Perhaps she should have said "yes" to rehab.

* GoingColdTurkey: Killed her. It's a ''terrible'' idea to just stop taking opiates, especially as her health was poor to begin with.

* {{Rockumentary}}: ''Amy'', which covers her whole life and career.

'''Amy Jade Winehouse''' (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was a {{Soul}}[=/=]R&B[=/=]{{Jazz}} singer and songwriter, active from 2000 to 2011. Her two albums, ''Music/{{Frank|Album}}'' and ''Music/BackToBlack'', both received critical acclaim, and ''Back to Black'' won five Grammys, making Winehouse the first ever British artist to win that many. She also won a number of other prestigious awards throughout her career, including 3 Ivor Novello awards, a Mobo award, a world music award, a Q music award, an MTV Europe Music Award and a Brit award. Both of her albums spun off several hit singles; she had 15 charted singles in total throughout her career spanning only nine years, including many covers and collaborations with artists such as Tony Bennett and Quincy Jones. ''Back to Black'' would eventually become the best selling album of the 00's and the entire 21st century in the United Kingdom, but also enjoyed considerable mainstream success abroad, including all over Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Japan, and America.

* SuperGroup: As "Truth+Soul" with Music/{{Adele}} and Aloe Blacc for the ''VideoGame/LANoire'' soundtrack.

* AddledAddict: Famously sang about her drug induced lifestyle in her song "Rehab", where she vows she is not going back to the rehab clinic.

* BeehiveHairdo: Amy has famously sported a hairdo that is an adaptation of the beehive.
--> ''The more insecure I am, [[CompensatingForSomething the bigger my hair has to be]].''

* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Many of the same gossip sites that gleefully covered her downward spiral launched into tributes within the hour her death was announced, NME who also famously nominated Winehouse as villain of the year alongside other candidates such as UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and TonyBlair in 2008 also released a tribute issue to her not long after her death.
* OurFounder: A life-size memorial was erected on her 31st "birthday" in the London neighbourhood where she used to rule: Camden.
* PropheticName: A dark case; Amy Winehouse, a singer with some serious drinking problems, who eventually died by alcohol poisoning. And whose biggest hit involves refusing to go to drug rehab.

* SuperGroup: As "Truth+Soul" with Music/{{Adele}} and Aloe Blacc for the ''VideoGame/LANoire'' soundtrack.
* WorstNewsJudgementEver: Though nothing against Amy herself, the death of one person who the press had been vilifying for 5 years covered up the single worst spree killing in living memory for a few days until people started calling the British press out on it.
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--> "For you I was a flame / love is a losing game."

* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Frank'' has one in "Take the Box."

%% This trope does not apply to ''Back to Black''; albums with title tracks do not qualify for this trope.

* AmenBreak: Used in "You Know I'm No Good."
* BeehiveHairdo: Amy has famously sported a hairdo that is an adaptation of the beehive.
-->"The more insecure I am, [[CompensatingForSomething the bigger my hair has to be]]."
* BrieferThanTheyThink: Only released two albums, but opened up the door for everyone from Music/LadyGaga to Music/{{Adele}} and Music/JessieJ.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: The lyrics of "Amy Amy Amy" are four minutes of this.
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** ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' once suggested in a comic-strip parody of ''{{Cathy}}'' called "Amy!" that she hid drugs in her beehive hairdo. [[AccidentallyAccurate They thought they were joking...]]

* ShoutOut: "October Song" namechecks legendary jazz singer Sarah Vaughan in the chorus.

Amy Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was a {{Soul}}[=/=]R&B[=/=]{{Jazz}} singer and songwriter, active from 2000 to 2011. Her two albums, Frank and Music/BackToBlack, both received critical acclaim, and ''Back to Black'' won five Grammys, making Winehouse the first ever British artist to win that many. She also won a number of other prestigious awards throughout her career, including 3 Ivor Novello awards, a Mobo award, a world music award, a Q music award, an MTV Europe Music Award and a Brit award. Both of her albums spun off several hit singles; she had 15 charted singles in total throughout her career spanning only nine years, including many covers and collaborations with artists such as Tony Bennett and Quincy Jones. ''Back to Black'' would eventually become the best selling album of the 00's and the entire 21st century in the United Kingdom, but also enjoyed considerable mainstream success abroad, including all over Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Japan, and America.

Amy Winehouse would go on to influence many subsequent female singers of the 00's with the likes of Music/{{Adele}}, Music/JessieJ, Paloma Faith, Duffy, [[Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine Florence Welch]], Emeli Sandé, Music/LanaDelRey, and Music/LadyGaga citing her as a big influence as well as a reason for their success. She is credited by many as an influence in the rise of popularity of the eccentric female singer-songwriter all over the world as well as revitalising soul music and the stagnated British music scene, and also for kicking off a third British invasion.

* Music/FrankAlbum (2003)
* Music/BackToBlack (2006)

* AmenBreak: Used in "You Know I’m No Good."

* BrieferThanTheyThink: Only released two albums, but opened up the door for everyone from LadyGaga to {{Adele}} and JessieJ.

* OurFounder: A life-size memorial was erected on her 31st 'birthday' in the London neighborhood where she used to rule: Camden.

* SuperGroup: As "Truth+Soul" with {{Adele}} and Aloe Blacc for the ''LANoire'' soundtrack.

* OurFounder: A life-size memorial was erected on hr 31st "birthday" in the London neighborhood where she used to rule: Camden.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: She was working on a third album when she died.

* CreatorBreakdown: Got too heavy into SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll and only cut two albums, the last one five years before her untimely death.

* ShortLivedBigImpact: She was a key influence in revitalizing the stagnated British music scene, and for popularizing soul music. Dead at age 27.
** Her existence encouraged Music/LadyGaga to be herself when she finally released music in 2008.
*** Music/{{Adele}} also referred to Winehouse as her "role model" and said in her moving tribute to her on her website that Amy made everyone excited about British music again.
*** Music/JessieJ also dedicated her win at the Mobo awards to Winehouse and said that without her she and Adele would never have been signed.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Winehouse was originally supposed to be the musical guest for a ''SaturdayNightLive'' episode that aired in November 2007 with [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] hosting. The episode ended up being canceled as November 2007 was when the Writers Guild of America went on strike over not receiving residuals for their programs when said programs were being put out on DVD and the Internet. Even worse, The Rock got a chance to host on ''SNL'''s 34th season, only the musical guest was Ray [=LaMontagne=]. Winehouse was never a musical guest, and now that she's dead, she never will be.

* FrankAlbum (2003)

Amy Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was a {{Soul}}[=/=]R&B[=/=]{{Jazz}} singer and songwriter, active from 2000 to 2011. Her two albums, Frank and BackToBlack, both received critical acclaim, and ''Back to Black'' won five Grammys, making Winehouse the first ever British artist to win that many. She also won a number of other prestigious awards throughout her career, including 3 Ivor Novello awards, a Mobo award, a world music award, a Q music award, an MTV Europe Music Award and a Brit award. Both of her albums spun off several hit singles; she had 15 charted singles in total throughout her career spanning only nine years, including many covers and collaborations with artists such as Tony Bennett and Quincy Jones. ''Back to Black'' would eventually become the best selling album of the 00's and the entire 21st century in the United Kingdom, but also enjoyed considerable mainstream success abroad, including all over Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Japan, and America.