Amy Winehouse Cause Of Death

Amy Winehouse Cause Of Death, Tony Bennett, the iconic singer who has been very candid about his own battles with addiction, used the death of Whitney Houston and two other performers who met with tragic ends, to promote his pro-legalization stance on drugs over the weekend.

At a pre-Grammys party on Saturday Bennett told the crowd at the Beverly Hills Hilton, the same hotel where Houston’s body was found and was still being examined, that less stringent drug laws would have saved Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse and finally Whitney Houston.

“I’d like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs,” he said. “So they have to get it from a doctor, not just some gangsters that just sell it under the table.”

Bennett intimated that it was dangerous street drugs that killed Jackson, Winehouse and Houston. That isn’t exactly the case. The drug that ultimately killed Michael Jackson, was the powerful anesthetic propofol, administered by Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray.

Coroners determined that Amy Winehouse’s 2011 death was caused by an accidental alcohol poisoning, not a mixture of street drugs, despite the singer’s past history with substances like cocaine and heroin.

The cause of Houston’s death has yet to be determined, but a law enforcement official told FoxNews.com that it was likely a mix of alcohol and prescription pills. Los Angeles police officials said a full toxicology report will likely take weeks.

“Bennett’s remarks were misleading because in every case he mentioned we are talking about legal prescription drugs or alcohol,” explained addiction specialist Marty Ferrero, the Senior Clinical Director of Adult Services at Caron Treatment Center.

Ferrero, who has seen a rise in the number of his patients battling prescription drug abuse, found Bennett’s remarks confusing and concerning.

“To me it seemed inappropriate in terms of timing and had nothing to do with what we are talking about here,” Ferrero said. “On the face of this tragedy it was ill-timed, inappropriate and misleading.”

Bennett, 85, has been candid in the past about his own battles with drug addiction, including an overdose from cocaine in the late seventies.

“I don’t believe that Bennett is cynically using Whitney Houston’s death to promote his argument about drug legalization. I think he’s using the media maelstrom around her death to make an important point,” argued Maer Roshan, editor of TheFix.com, a website devoted to addiction and recovery. “I agree with Bennett that we can’t tackle this epidemic in a piecemeal kind of way. At detoxes and rehabs across the country, prescription pill addicts and alcoholics and meth-heads are coke-heads all share the same plight, and suffer from the same scatter-shot treatment. The reform of our nation’s drug laws is steadily gaining majority support. Bennett, who has been public about is own drug problems, should not be condemned for putting the issue on the table.”

Rehab Amy Winehouse

Rehab Amy Winehouse, “Rehab” is a song by English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse. It was released on 23 October 2006 as the first single from her second studio album Back to Black. It was written by Winehouse and produced by Mark Ronson. The lyrics are autobiographical, and talk about Winehouse’s refusal to enter a rehabilitation clinic. It peaked at number 7 in the United Kingdom on the UK Singles Chart and number 9 in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100.

It has since become a critical and commercial success internationally, and has been referred to as Amy Winehouse’s “signature song”. It won three Grammy Awards in 2008, including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and was nominated for two more Grammy Awards. It also won a Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song. Winehouse’s subsequent public battle with drug and alcohol addiction has resulted in some of the song’s popularity and appearance in the media. The song has been covered by a list of artists. Two remixes featuring American rappers Jay-Z and Pharoahe Monch were released in 2008. A further remix by the electronic band Hot Chip was released in the United Kingdom.

Famous who died young: Amy Winehouse

Famous who died young: Amy Winehouse, Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter known for her powerful deep contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz. Winehouse’s 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize.

Her 2006 follow-up album, Back to Black, led to six Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the then record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made Winehouse the first British female to win five Grammys, including three of the “Big Four”: Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

In 2007 she won a Brit Award for Best British Female Artist; she had also been nominated for Best British Album. She won the Ivor Novello Award three times: once in 2004 for Best Contemporary Song (musically and lyrically) for “Stronger Than Me”, once in 2007 for Best Contemporary Song for “Rehab”, and once in 2008 for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for “Love Is a Losing Game”.

Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning on 23 July 2011. Her album Back to Black subsequently became the UK’s best selling album of the 21st century thus far.

Amy Winehouse Cause Of Death

Amy Winehouse Cause Of Death, She may have been plagued with drink and drug problems in life but embattled singer Amy Winehouse has followed Michael Jackson with record sales after death.

The Back To Black singer’s unreleased songs entitled ‘Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden Treasures’ has been released today just months after the star found dead at her London home on the 23 July.

The 45 minute album, which features new tracks as well as cover versions and early renditions of previously released songs dating back as far as 2002 was produced and mixed by Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson.

The album adds to the singer’s legacy one last time in the same way that Michael Jackson’s posthumous album ‘Michael’ did when it was realeased last year.

Her fans will be able to enjoy the stars signature voice from beyond the grave in the new album which also includes the last track she ever recorded, a duet with Tony Bennett entitled ‘Body & Soul’.

Other tracks include a duet with rapper Nas, aka Nasir Jones, whom she references on the song ‘Me & Mr Jones’ as heard on breakthrough album ‘Back To Black’ as well as a demo of Leon Russell’s “A Song for You.”

The five-time Grammy winner artists’ new album shot straight to No1 in Amazon’s pre-release chart even before it was released.

Her record label Island/ Universal has also announced plans to donate £1 from every sale to her father Mitch’s new charity The Amy Winehouse Foundation, which was launched on September 14, Amy’s birthday.

An official inquest into cause of death in October ruled death by misadventure. The singer had ‘potentially fatal’ levels of alcohol in her system when she died at the age of 27.