"Prelude To A Death" Amy Winehouse!

With all the remorse, shock and disbelief surrounding Amy Winehouse's untimely death at the tender age of 27.....my opinion is simply that it wasn't her destiny to live a long and well adjusted life. But that's all subjective now, isn't it?

Her death, although tragic to some, will ultimately serve as yet another pathetic example of a squanderous waste of talent. But looking on the bright side, in the land of the living, hopefully her death will have some sort of resonance or significance in someone else's life. Just like Janis Joplin and so many other creatively, self-destructive individuals like Morrison, Presley, Monroe, Dean, McQueen, Holiday the list of wasted talents goes on and on and on. Amy Winehouse now joins that illustrious group of "icons".

Michael Jackson, one of the greatest talents of our time, sang about his joys, his loves, his utopian views of the world and his ultimate fears and disallusionment with humanity and then the utlimate betrayal of his fans and he was also "gone too soon". I don't personally feel that he lived a tragic life, if you consider not having a childhood and being reared by a demon father tragic, but he did die of personal isolationism! But for what reason......to be immortalized, no because of his disappointment with a world that simply didn't understand his childlike ways. What's the point of Michael's death, what's the point of Amy's death, or for that matter any of the great legends that have died at relatively young ages...I really can't tell you, because I honestly don't know. I've never been self destructive, so I don' think there is any great reward for one's own self destruction, regardless of how tormented our lives can be and I've seen my share of agony, pain, suffering, torment and guilt. But I guess my own instinct for self preservation is stronger than are my own demons.

But where was her family in this scenario? Her mother admittedly knew that her daughter would ultimately die of an overdose and die she did! At least that's the speculation, I mean that she died of an drug overdose, which her excessive drug use was widely and worldly publicized, although the official autopsy report isn't in yet. Why couldn't someone conduct some sort of effective intervention? Was her life that predictably scripted and was her destiny sealed in ink so much so that nobody tried to do anything.....and if someone did try to do something, then why didn't it work? Why doesn't it ever work with interventions? Why indeed! Amy was English cool and her life was like watching a sinking ship and her fans were like her captive shipmates and they all danced and sang without abandon "no, I won't go, no, no". Her private life of drug overdose overshadowed her potentailly long life of great music! And now we mourn for the shipwreck named Amy Winehouse, that we all knew would invariably hit the proverbial iceberg!

As Freddy Mercury immortalized.....".another one bites the dust heh, heh!"..........But I think I'll stick to the land of the living for now and not die a tragic legend, thank you. There are two words that I've never particularly liked much and those are PATHETIC & TRAGIC and Amy Winehouse's death was both. There was unfortunately no nobility in her death and she should have gone to rehab, I say yes, yes, yes!

Montgomery Frazier "The Image Guru"