Amy Winehouse: Ten years on from the day the music died
British singer Amy Winehouse poses for photographs after being interviewed by The Associated Press at a studio in north London. AP Photo/Matt Dunham
July 23 will mark the tenth anniversary of Amy Winehouse’s passing. Her body was discovered shortly after 3pm in the bedroom of her Camden flat by a bodyguard who’d assumed she was sleeping late. Her cause of death was alcohol poisoning. She was 27. Music had lost another icon heartbreakingly young.
Winehouse’s downward spiral was slow but, with hindsight, has come to be seen as inexorable. And a case can be made that the wheels started coming off in earnest not long after she basked in a brief moment of tranquility in Dingle.
