AMY, 27
Book ID/图书代码： 06400013B63753
English Summary/英文概要： The most detailed and insightful portrait of the life and death of Amy Winehouse, in the context of the infamous 27 Club.
The death of Amy Winehouse at the age of 27 was a tragedy.
She was one of the brightest music stars in years -a brilliant, original song writer with a mighty voice and great personal charm.
Amy was loveable, but troubled. She was as notorious for her messy personal life, drug addiction and alcoholism, as she was celebrated for her songs, and her death in 2011, while shocking, was not unexpected.
Amy was also the latest in a series of iconic music stars who died at the same young age; starting with Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones whose death in 1969 was followed by Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin in 1970, Jim Morrison in 1971, and Kurt Cobain in 1994. All were gifted. All were dissipated. All were 27.
The 27 Club was first used as a collective term for these lost souls after a comment by Kurt Cobain’s mother. ’He’s gone and joined that stupid club,’ she said after Kurt shot himself. ’I told him not to ...’
In this ground-breaking book, Howard Sounes delivers a detailed and insightful study of Amy Winehouse’s life, and sets that life in the context of the 27 Club.
That six big music stars died at 27 -- along with 44 less well-known names -- is on one level a coincidence. But behind this coincidence Sounes reveals is a disturbing common narrative that explains how these artists met their fate, and casts new light on Amy’s death in particular.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 27岁的英国著名灵魂、爵士和R&B歌手Amy Winehouse在家中猝死的消息在娱乐圈里简直是个悲剧。
她是近几年里英国流行歌坛里最闪耀的歌手之一。——她是一位颇具天赋的原创型歌手，她的嗓音富有磁性，极具爆发力，具有穿透灵魂的力量。
Amy是个生性善良的人，但是她麻烦不断。她凭借自己的歌曲而闻名世界，但是糜烂的私生活，吸食毒品以及酗酒同样也让她臭名昭著。她于2011年的突然离世，尽管震惊了娱乐圈，但这也在人们的意料之中。
在流行音乐史上，同样也有一些杰出的音乐巨星在27岁的美好年华突然逝去，以1969年滚石巨星Brian Jones的逝世开始，紧随其后的是1970年的Jim Hendrix和Janis Joplin，1971年的Jim Morrison以及1994年的Kurt Cobain。这些天赋异禀的人都在27岁那年随风而逝。
在Kurt自杀之后，他的母亲曾经说过：“他走了，之后“加入了”那家愚蠢的俱乐部。我告诉他不要这么做。”在此之后，“27岁俱乐部”首次成为这些逝去灵魂的代名词。在这本独一无二的书中，HOWARD SOUNES以颇具洞察力的眼光详细分析了Amy Winehouse的生活，并且把HOWARD SOUNES的生活与 “27岁俱乐部”里其他名人的生活作比较。
这六位音乐巨星在27岁那年永远离开了我们——还有44个不那么有名的名字——这是一个巧合吗？但是在巧合的背后，SOUNES解释了这些摇滚巨星们是如何走上不归路的，以及特别分析了Amy的死亡原因。(Susie)
Awards/获奖情况：Fans of Amy and of the host of music stars who met their end too soon will find much to enthrall them here. (Stylist)
Much of the book’s power lies in its refusal to pander to the romantic-melancholy notion of the tortured young artist who lives fast and dies young. Instead the squalor and chaos of their everyday existence if exposed in uncompromising detail... This book is not about more rock star mythologizing. It’s about skewering the mystery of the 27-connection, by exposing its all-too-tragic reality. (Sunday Times 2013-07-21)
Sounes’ masterstroke is to unearth forensic levels of detail on his subjects. Jim Morrison’s end in a Paris bathtub is well known, but Sounes reveals minutiae explaining the bad luck that caused this unhappy and alcoholic but probably not suicidal man to die when he did... Sounes acknowledges the danger of theorising too heavily on the 27 Club but in the main he has pulled off what could have been a tasteless project with sensitivity. And he’s best of all on the subject that clearly fascinates him: the relationship between Amy Winehouse and her father. (The Times 2013-06-20)
About the Author/作者介绍： HOWARD SOUNES为许多名人写过内容详细，意味深长的传记，包括，美国作家Charles Bukowski的《困于疯狂人生》，音乐家Bob Dylan的《沿高速公路而下》以及Paul McCartney的《绝妙》。他写每一本传记之前，都广泛地研究了第一手资料。Howard Sounes is known for writing detailed and revelatory biographies of a wide range of extraordinary personalities, including the murderers Fred and Rosemary West (Fred & Rose), the American author Charles Bukowski (Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life), and the musicians Bob Dylan (Down the Highway) and Paul McCartney (Fab). Each book is based on extensive original research.
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