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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.

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.

I'm like that when I've had a shitton of coffee. Or booze. Or coke.

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

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

I think you mean ground floor.

Never underestimate the power of me-too-ism.

Add a "NO YOU" and you're golden.

I think I'm gonna Fritzl you.

Tru dat.

This strikes me as exceedingly silly.

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

I though it would be much more than that... But anyway, that's not the point of this thread.

It does seem silly buying her albums now but people still do it don't they?

But it's important that the record label and manager who let her coke herself to death make lots of money! Very important! We must show them our support.

Cheers, Nik. I wasn't even going to look in that thread as I thought it was about the man himself!

There's an alternative voting system I can get behind!

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. If you want to remeber her music and voice at it's very best download her 2007 live in Paradiso amsterdam gig.

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.

Yeah, I was thinking this. It may not be a surge of people already fans that they are targetting, but people wondering what all the fuss is about.

Back when I worked in a record shop, the day after anyone died people would always come in asking if we stocked their albums. I guess it's to do with the increased exposure that having an obituary brings you: the whole 'hey, never heard this before but I like it' thing. Sadly, George Harrison died before they re-released the 'Travelling Wilburys', which was quite frustrating having to explain to impatient customers that we couldn't get the discs.

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.

That's the power of advertising though and this isn't meant to sound callous but you couldn't even buy this kind of advertising.

"Make 'em go gold before they're cold" is apparently a long-standing music industry saying.

I really ought to dig out that "Tragedy Tourists" song Geoff and I wrote for Shallow End.

"We travelled down to Soham, we could not stay at home, because we're just so addicted to other peoples grief,
You can see us on the next train, or by a crashed car in a bus lane, because we're just so addicted to other peoples grief"

I'm sure the line "Desert Orchid. In death, he was a racehorse beloved by the nation. In life, he was an investment opportunity." is in there somewhere.

IIRC, when Biggie Smalls died, the three people who benefited the most from the tribute single being a #1 was his ex-producer/record label owner who produced it, Smalls' ex-wife who sang on it and Sting, who got half a million quid for the "Every Breath You Take" sample it used.

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

Do they have a cause of death then?

Cannelloni heart disease.

This thread.

I'm glad this thread deserved to be bumped and I won't apologise for it. Flounce.

No, it cannot be confirmed whether the alcohol caused her death.

Actual cause of death is a matter for the inquest on the 26th October.

Meanwhile, chinnys absence remains mysteriously unexplained.

She was pasta sell by date.

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

Chinny was a girl!?

Oh wait.....

Carry on.

She was done in by site scripters looking for deals on a TouchPad, you fools.

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.

OR DO WE?????

It does my noodle in. We need to know udon it, and if she was soba or not. We know she wasn't on an pillus, but did she penne a suicide note. it was definitely not a fregula day for her.

You're such a cunning linguinist, Bobby.

I try!

Hmm. Surely 10 pints is five times the legal limit?

Do they mean having drunk too much alcohol for a number of years? You can't possibly die from just drinking 5 times the legal limit*, as I'm fairly sure I was somewhere north of that at the BEEXBEEQUE.


*assuming they mean the drink drive limit, which equates to approx 4 units.

EDIT - Hi 5! And given that a pint of average lager these days is around 3 units, it would be closer to 6 pints than 10.

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.

Thank fuck for that. For a second there I thought I had quite spectacularly dodged a bullet hail of bullets.

I'm fairly sure I posted the below here, but it turned up in the Uncharted thread. Thankfully Gaywood has solved it.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oc ... sadventure


"The inquest, held in London, was told she hit the bottle after being dry for three weeks and was poisoned by alcohol.

The St Pancras coroner Suzanne Greenway said: "She had consumed sufficient alcohol at 416mg per decilitre [of blood] and the unintended consequence of such potentially fatal levels was her sudden and unexpected death.""

Hang on - that's not ordinarily potentially fatal, surely?

"The inquest heard that a postmortem examination of the Back To Black diva's body found her vital organs in good health and with no traces of illegal drugs.

But the amount of alcohol in her system could have stopped her breathing and sent her into a coma."

Christ.

I think we're looking at this wrong - is it that if you drink 6 pints over the course of an evening, your blood alochol level would go down whils you're drinking, so you would never have 5 times the drink drive limit in your blood? So having that much alcohol in your blood would mean that you'd drunk enough to be the equivalent of having 6 pints in one go?

I'm confused.