Summary
The death of Amy Winehouse at the age of 27 was a tragedy. She was one of the brightest music stars in years - a brilliant, original songwriter with a mighty voice and great personal charm. Amy was loveable, but troubled. She was as notorious for her messy personal life, drug addiction and alcoholism, as she was celebrated for her songs, and her death in 2011, while shocking, was not unexpected.
Amy was also the latest in a series of iconic music stars who died at the same young age; …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444758504 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444758500 |
| Author: | Howard Sounes |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 25mm |
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Fans of Amy and of the host of music stars who met their end too soon will find much to enthrall them here. - Stylist
Sounes’ masterstroke is to unearth forensic levels of detail on his subjects. Jim Morrison’s end in a Paris bathtub is well known, but Sounes reveals minutiae explaining the bad luck that caused this unhappy and alcoholic but probably not suicidal man to die when he did… Sounes acknowledges the danger of theorising too heavily on the 27 Club but in the main he has pulled off what could have been a tasteless project with sensitivity. And he’s best of all on the subject that clearly fascinates him: the relationship between Amy Winehouse and her father. - The TimesA meticulously researched corrective that spares none of the often squalid truth and should, if there’s any justice, put paid to decades of ill-informed mythologizing. +days+Winehouse+Club/8754647/story.html - Montreal GazetteAbout The Author
Howard Sounes
Howard Sounes is known for writing detailed and revelatory biographies of a wide range of extraordinary personalities, including the murderers Fred and Rosemary West (Fred & Rose), the American author Charles Bukowski (Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life), and the musicians Bob Dylan (Down the Highway) and Paul McCartney (Fab). Each book is based on extensive original research.
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