13/10/2025
Addicition comes in many ways and forms!
Alcohol? Gambling? And the list goes on…
Amy Winehouse’s last performance was in Belgrade in June 2011.
She was booed off stage, after which the countries defense minister called her performance a “huge shame & disappointment.”
Just over 4 weeks later, she was dead.
This final show laid bare the toll of addiction and fame.
Arriving on stage intoxicated & disoriented, she forgot lyrics, slurred words & stumbled through songs as her band tried to guide her.
What was intended to be the start of a European tour quickly became a scene of public humiliation as the crowd grew restless & booed.
Her management cancelled the rest of the tour the next day.
Behind the headlines, Winehouse was struggling to overcome years of substance abuse and pressure to perform after her Grammy-winning album Back to Black turned her into an international star.
A month later, she was found dead in her London home at age 27 from alcohol poisoning.
Her death became a tragic entry in the so-called “27 Club,” a reminder of the fragility of artists who burn too bright too soon.
Amy Winehouse posthumously won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance for her duet with Tony Bennett on “Body and Soul.”
Bennett later said she was “the best jazz singer of her generation.”
