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Frankel, Daniel (2011-07-23). "Singer Amy Winehouse Found Dead at Her London Flat". Reuters. Retrieved 2011-07-25. ...Winehouse's Wikipedia page has already been updated to say she died of a drug overdose -- although no one in official authority has publicly confirmed that.

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as a fan ive added new info i picked up over the years. i'll expand it a bit this month. the bit i added was-

Further recordings

Other than the rare songs for her 3rd album, there are a few extra possible songs that could be released that wern't on her apparent final album. These are the cover versions of 4 songs, 3 of which were performed live on jools holland's xmas hootenanny show prior to 2010. The bbc also broadcast another cover song called monkey man. There is also a guitar solo version of 'no greater love' available via P2P.

Those songs are part of a new album [1] --Xaxlo (talk) 15:23, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Minor Additions

Just a few minor things that could be added; she played piano which is missing from the instrument section (see YouTube link). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1tpzBnbL04

Also, the 'Death' section makes mention of tributes; Patti Smith wrote the song 'This Is The Girl' as a tribute to Amy on her Banga album which seems noteworthy. Also, as mentioned above there's an "Amy Winehouse at the BBC" collection being released which may be worth including. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.143.198.23 (talk) 13:15, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi I would like to request a link from this page to Children of the Andes. Children of the Andes is mentioned in charity work section of this page and I would like request the link from Children of the Andes to the following website: http://www.childrenoftheandes.org/pages/what-we-do.html

Thank you

Children of the Andes (talk) 14:45, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not done:. Please see the policy on external links. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 19:19, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I would suggest creating a Wikipedia article about Children of the Andes and linking to that. You can add your external link to the new article. Hamsterlopithecus (talk) 14:59, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Citation reference [1] - Amy Winehouse: The Next Tragic Talent?, New York Observer

The first sentence in this article reads as follows: Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter known for her powerful deep contralto vocals[1]... However citation [1] does not reference any of the facts portrayed here. I am going to remove this citation but I will leave it here for future reference to this incident. [2] -Hamsterlopithecus (talk) 14:50, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dos

I dont see it on here but the thirteenth track on Green Day's Dos! album is dedicated to her so someone needs to add this BlackDragon 02:08, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Influence

Amy has inspired more than just Adele and Lady Gaga. She also inspired Emeli Sande, Florence Welch,6h Paloma Faith and Misha B as well as Rebecca Ferguson and Azaelia Banks. We should mention those people too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hatefem (talk • contribs) 09:15, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

God fucking wikipedia are DRIVING ME CRAZY. There are like seventeen interviews with the likes of Emeli Sande, Jessie J, Paloma Faith, and Misha B WHERE THEY MENTION Amy Winehouse's influence on them but each time I try to provide a link every single last one of them says "sorry this site is on wikipedia's blacklist". WHAT THE FUCK, the sites I go to are trustworthy the Emili Sande one is the BBC's website, where they actually have a recording of Emili Sande herself saying that Back to Black inspired her to be fearless in her songwriting. But I can't provide a link to it because of some stupid little rule. How do I get round that for Fucks sake how is anyone supposed to edit these things properly if we can't include vital information that has the most reliable sources because of a stupid fucking little rule.--Zolfianyarvelling (talk) 13:50, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding blacklisting, see Wikipedia:Spam blacklist for how it works. Regarding the particular links, without seeing them it is hard to say what the problem is, but the only reason I can think of for putting a BBC link on there is because of licensing concerns - they may not permit viewing video etc outside of the UK. Personally, I think that we'd be better off not including a performer as being 'influenced' without third party sources also suggesting that there actually was an influence. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:34, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I hear you and that probably is the problem with the BBC links. It is just so annoying though because it is actually a source that is completely trustworthy, it is a recording of Emeli Sande herself saying that Back to Black was a huge influence on her songwriting, it isn't just some critics observation that Emeli Sande sounds like Amy Winehouse it is Emeli Snade herself. Same with the Paloma Faith one, Jessie J and Misha B one. Misha B was on facebook she lists Amy as one of her influences. She is there in her likes section alongside the other artists that have inspired her the most more than many other artists critics claim she is inspired by. Its annoying all of these sources that are reliable going to waste. Also sorry about the swearing earlier I was having a bit of a hectic time I know that is no excuse but I am sorry anyway. I will try and find other sources but until then I guess you can delete what I wrote about her inspiring these women as I only wrote it as I thought I had the sources on hand.