Failure to Rehabilitate: The Death of Amy Winehouse
Submitted on July 26, 2011
By BINOY KAMPMARK - Counterpunch
Winehouse was always going to be the music industry’s soft spot, an easy target for the press vultures keen to find copy and fill columns. Vulnerable, mad, and plunging into drug and alcohol filled depths with seemingly no visible bottom, she was always going to be easy game...[A]s she is laid to rest, one can only wonder whether it would have been better had she remained a brilliant singer rather than a deeply troubled star.
