One week on ...

A week has passed since Amy Winehouse died.  I really did feel sad about it.  I’ve never really known the death of a pop star to affect me in any way at all.  I guess the last big pop star to die was Michael Jackson.  Okay so I used to listen to his music on the radio.  I can’t say I was much of a fan of his and I didn’t really have any of his albums that I played over and over.  Freddie Mercury was probably the one before that.  Again, I wasn’t particularly bothered by that either.  Maybe I’m just a bitch.  Maybe I just didn’t like the singers enough.  Maybe that is why I now feel sad about Amy’s death.  I liked her as a singer but I’m not sure I would have liked her as a person but all her family and friends say what a great person she was and very loving.  I think she was just a bit misled.  There was the death of Elvis Presley.  That was pretty much worldwide too but I was only young when that happened so it didn’t really mean that much to me.  I remember staying at a friends house in the summer holidays when my mum worked.  We started watching a load of the old Elvis movies.  Bearing in mind how old I was when Elvis died I’m thinking that we watched the movies AFTER he died.  They probably had a few weeks where they showed nothing  but Elvis movies on TV.  John Lennon is another one I remember the death of.  I think I had stayed round a friends house the night before and their mum woke us up the next morning to tell us that John Lennon was dead.  I’m not sure.  I do know that people still listen to the music of Elvis and John Lennon.  There are many people  who still visit the former home of Elvis on the anniversary of his death every year.  Perhaps they will do that for Amy Winehouse.  Perhaps they won’t. 

I never really knew what style of singing hers was.  Many people say she was a Jazz singer.  I guess after listening to her first album ‘Frank’ this week, she does sound a bit jazzy !  This probably comes out in her song 'Me and Mr Jones' aswell.   She only ever made the two albums but I’d like to think that her music will still be played in years to come.  One thing I will say is that when Michael Jackson died they really played a lot of his songs on the radio.  Okay so he was the ‘King of Pop’ to some people but I’ve not heard any Amy Winehouse songs played on the radio except for ‘Back to Black’ which re-entered our charts last Sunday.  Perhaps Amy Winehouse just wasn’t as big as I’d like her to have been.