I know what you said, but I also know what you meant deep down.

Facebook manifests this well. One of my 'friends' on there seperately dedicated all her thoughts and prayers to the people of Norway and Amy winehouse two minutes apart on Sunday, then two minutes later all her thoughts had moved to her brother, as he had his first baby two days before.

And that neatly sums up every internet forum discussion, ever.

Really? I'm not sure that most people have a deep down level.

Gazchap, for example, lives in a first floor flat.

With relatively little back catalog to her name (two albums, right? And a few appearances on other songs and stuff?), it's hard to imagine how big a sales surge this would cause. Surely anyone who liked her enough to care already had those songs?

And that neatly sums up every internet forum discussion, ever.

I think you mean ground floor.

Never underestimate the power of me-too-ism.

[T]he late Amy Winehouse returns to the top 10 [of the American Billboard chart] with "Back to Black" at No. 9 (37,000; up 3,140%). Winehouse's first album, 2004's "Frank," also comes back to the tally, re-entering at No. 57 with 8,000 (up 4,100%)

That other thread, for any who are lost: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7521

37,000 albums gets you to number 10? Wow.

Never underestimate the power of me-too-ism.

Suddenly she's all over the TV, magazines and every newspaper with everyone talking about her as though she were a legendary genius, it doesn't seem at all surprising that this may lead quite a lot of people to check out her music even if they'd never bothered before.

I guess that must be it. Still, though, she was hardly obscure before, was she? I certainly knew who she was and could have hummed a few bars of a few of her songs, despite having zero interest in her work and never listening to music radio.

Ah, but you're discounting the 'grief athletes' who'll do anything to prove to the world that they're grieving about 'tragedy/death X' more than anyone else in the world is. Buying 20 copies of a cd to post to all their friends with handwritten poems about the deceased? Kids stuff for the serious grief athlete.

I can't understand people thinking it would be in any way appropriate to buy one of her albums given the fact that the money is going to go to the very people that let her kill herself and quite probably her drug dealer ex-husband depending on the divorce terms.

Toxicology results back and no illegal substances found in her system, only ravioli.

Toxicology results back and no illegal substances found in her system, only cibrushsille.

Do they have a cause of death then?

Do they have a cause of death then?

She was killd by MI6, Princess Diana and Dodi al-Fayed, who all made their escape on Shergar.

All we know is that it wasn't Lee Harvey Oswald.

All these long, drawn out investigations! I really don't know how people endurum.

You're such a wanker, Bobby.

The Grammy winner died from drinking too much alcohol, a London coroner said Wednesday.

Coroner Suzanne Greenaway tells the Associated Press the verdict has been ruled "death by misadventure" because Winehouse voluntarily consumed alcohol and took on the consequences of her actions.

A pathologist said Winehouse had consumed a "very large quantity of alcohol," and was more than five times the legal limit when she died on July 23 at age 27.

Surely 10 pints is five times the legal limit?

No. Because the coroner will (presumably) be saying she had a blood alcohol amount of 5x80 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood, so an alcohol content of 0.4%.

That's a lot more than you can get inside you from 10 pints because you don't inhale the booze instantly (so you're constantly metabolising it out) and you don't absorb it that evenly. Wikipedia notes that this is pretty high. This page puts that BAC in the "coma" side effect category.

Basically, alcohol in your mouth doesn't directly relate to alcohol in your blood. Other factors are at work.