Corinne Bailey-Rae is mourning over the sudden and tragic death of her husband. Its alleged that saxophonist Jason Rae, 31, died of a drink and drug overdose. Police found his body on Saturday in the Hyde Park area of Leeds, and subsequently arrested a 32 year old man on suspicion of supplying controlled drugs.
Rae was the saxophonist in The Haggis Horns, who’d performed with Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse. The band have cancelled their upcoming shows.
Corinne and Jason met in a Leeds jazz club and were married in 2001.
Our condolences go out to the family.
Gym Class Heroes MC Travis McCoy is opening up about his drug addiction and his attempts at getting clean by posting a frank entry on his official blog about his time in a detox program and what pushed him to get sober. He talked about the many years he’s been addicted to pharmaceuticals and his first stint in detox. He also mentioned that when people started dropping like flies around him due to addiction was when he realized that he needed to get clean. He talked about the new method that he went under called The Waisman Method. It’s a very good read. Anyone out there with a drug problem could probably learn a lot out of reading his entry.
Amy Winehouse, along with a nurse from her rehab facility as well as her father Mitch, took a break from her program and stepped out of the Capio Nightingale Hospital in London on Wednesday. The recovering drug addict paid a visit to her incarcerated husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, at Pentonville prison where he’s been stuck in since November.
Wino is looking healthier than she was a few weeks ago. That’s a good sign that rehab is working for her. And that means that she needs to stay there if we are to have any hope that she’s going to be ok and around for a good long while.
Mary J. Blige is praying Amy Winehouse survives her battle with drugs, because the future of music relies on her.
Well a lot of people are praying for Amy I am sure but I doubt for the same reasons.
The RnB superstar senses music is heading for a renaissance, and needs talents like Winehouse to help the industry recover from years of “drought”.
She says “Someone like Amy Winehouse is so important to the music business right now. It’s very painful to see her battle drugs. I hope she makes it. I think the music industry kind of got lost and we ended up in a drought for a while, but I see it making a turn, so instead of music being just synthetic, we’ll see it going back to actual instruments. That’s what I’m hoping for anyway, because that’s the kind of music I’m making.”
Amy Winehouse hit the headlines (as she does on a regular occasion) a few months ago for receiving the most number of nominations for the annual Grammy awards; despite her controversial lifestyle.
Amy has received six nominations for the show and has been lined up as the big star of the ceremony. But all could be in jeopardy as US officials have demanded that in order to gain a visa to enter the country Amy must take a drug test to prove she is clean.
Predictably this has her team desperately pulling out their hair; as sources say she would have to be clean of drugs for weeks to pass – and the award ceremony is February 10th. Amy has said she isn’t ready to quit so her performance is really on the line. Her recent holiday in Mustique was all about getting clean; and it did help; but it is hard to believe there will be a time before going to the US that she would pass the test.
If you’re a celebrity, you can do what the heck to want. A normal person would have to stay in the hospital for 72 hours if they went through all the drama that Britney Spears went through on Thursday night. But the pop wreck was able to bolt from Cedars-Sinai on Saturday, not even 48 hours since she got admitted and put under psychiatric evaluation.
To make it all Hollywood and surreal, The Insider is reporting that none other than Dr. Phil McGraw paid the fallen pop star a visit on Saturday morning and was seen walking her to her car. Why would the hospital release her?
Are you tired of having to get your tickets refunded because Amy Winehouse decided not to show because she’s too drunk to perform? Well here’s the solution for that – say hello to Adele.
Much like the troubled ‘Rehab’ singer, she has a wisdom far beyond her years and a voice tinged with a sweet sadness that you can’t help but be instantly drawn to. She also happens to be from London. Everyone is pegging the up-and-comer are the new Wino, minus the drugs and self-sabotage of course. Lots of people are predicting good things to happen for Adele come 2008.
Latin rapper Pitbull, whose real name is Armando Perez, was arrested in Miami, Florida early Friday morning and it sounds like he had some odd dance moves for the cops.
According to the police report, Perez was stopped after flying past a marked cop car when he was doing 93 mph in a 55 zone. At first, the rapper wouldn’t get out of his car. When he finally did, the officer wrote that he “could detect a strong breath odor of alcohol over the gum he was chewing†and that his speech was rapid and slurred. And the sobriety tests? He couldn’t do the finger-to-nose touch, he was swaying, and basically mangled the ‘walk and turn’ portion of the test, losing his balance, stepping off line and starting without being told to do so.
I know. It’s Amy Winehouse. Again. But she just keeps popping up. I have been able to write something about this girl for days now. And today is just another chapter in the Amy-Drug saga.
At her London performance at the Hammersmith Apollo on the 24th, the troubled singer took to the stage; only to slur her way through most of her songs and cut her set short. Fans were left wondering what they had paid for, and indeed many demanded a refund. One fan said, “I paid to see Amy, not some spaced out girl wandering the stage. She needs helpâ€.
Amy, despite claiming you are clean, we don’t believe you. And we will only stick around for so long before you become some washed out junkie who used to be famous.
In her tour, which ends Dec 17th, Winehouse’s next gig is tonight at the Brighton Centre. I wish all of those with tickets luck; I hope Amy is on form and doesn’t repeat Saturday’s behaviour.
We’re guessing this isn’t how Amy Winehouse—and her handlers—envisioned her grand comeback. Just hours after paying her first visit to hubby Blake Fielder-Civil in prison, the “Rehab” singer kicked off the first night of her oft-delayed U.K. tour Wednesday, slurring her way through lyrics, insulting the audience and walking off stage midsong.
It doesn’t matter how good she is. The music industry is littered with more “one hit wonders” than with success stories. If she wants to throw it away, let her. I’m sure there are a million more just waiting to take her place and with equal or better talent. Just do it on your own time, please, Amy. She hasn’t even “made it” all the way yet and she’s screwing it up already. I think the girl is talented and I like her music. It’s lovely what drugs and boozing does to anyone (lol) but to see someone be given a chance to succeed and screw it up is just pitiful.
Good girl gone bad Rihanna graces the latest issue of Britain’s YOU magazine. In the magazine she talks about her crack addict father, Justin Timberlake, and her new image. New images the only image that this good singer but bad girl has is the one of being nasty and badly behaved, and kindly all of you who like her please do not try and convince me the other way that she still has a good heart and she is posing as a bad girl but she is really a sweet heart from the inside, because isn’t one and I am not taking any of this. Hopefully she has got any of the effects of her father’s addiction problems, coz if she has any of it then it will start showing in some time when the adulation and the fame she has acquired and slowly she starts feeling the pressures and some failures that’s the time when she will require some help and alcohol will let her be high and helping forgetting the problems.
And here I thought she was already on the right path and walking the straight and narrow. It was too good to be true. Amy Winehouse still needs to get her life together and fast!
The ‘Rehab’ singer had a concert in Zurich a few nights ago and it was a complete turnaround from her Amsterdam show. To say that it was a complete disaster would be putting it gently. She was constantly drinking on stage, was crying all the time and she could hardly sing her songs.
A lot of people reportedly left her show 20 minutes into it. Now that’s just sad.
He has struggled with the issue of substance abuse and he is not alone all the other major stars are struggling with the same problems. The announcement comes just one month after the “Another Side of You” singer, 30, wed his girlfriend of 12 years, Heather Singleton, 30. What can be done about the grim situation facing the entertainment industry, I do not know but surely it’s a problem that we all have been ignoring and now there are celebs entering the rehab everyday, Lindsay goes in comes out, so does Amy Winehouse, then there is someone else and now there is Joe who needs some help. And mind you this is just the tip of the ice berg here that we are looking at, there are so many other’s who go unreported and the we only get to here about the A list star, the problem with the struggling stars who are looking for their big break could be even worse. We need to tell the stars that if they continue with their wayward ways and do not clean up their acts then they could be facing losing interest from fans. We do not want these f**king shitheads amongst us.
She may just be on the road to getting better. In some ways, I think it may be literal too.
Britney Spears has been issued a valid license for the state of California. She was granted one on Tuesday and she recently picked her paper license at the DMV office in Van Nuys. The paper license would be valid only until a permanent one is sent in the mail. Looks like she won’t be driving around illegally anymore.
Even better news for the singer is that her song ‘Gimme More’ is #1 on the Soundscan Singles chart which is based solely on digital downloads. However, it’s highly unlikely for her to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart because radio airplay is very minimal to say the least.
Remember back in August when Winehouse overdosed and was rushed to the hospital for ‘exhaustion’? Well instead of helping his wife kick her addiction, Blake reportedly abandoned Winehouse because he wanted to take more heroin. That shows you what heroin does to a person. She probably totally understood and said “smuggle me some in a McDonald’s bag..” They are the most cracked up couple in the whole wide universe and I can’t see them staying put together for long, right now I think they have the same supplier that provides them the drugs they feed on so they are managing to party together, once they have another source them wouldn’t be so dependent on each other. And you can see she is going the Lindsay Lohan way, how many ever times she get into a rehab she will never get cleaned up, she is the one who will just carry on with her addiction and get messed up over and over again.
The Smashing Pumpkins comeback tour was hit by tragedy in Richmond, British Columbia, on Monday when a fan died while crowd surfing. The unnamed 20-year-old was pronounced dead at the venue. My money is on a drug overdose, alcohol, or quite possibly both. Why else would somebody attempt to surf with no water around? Well what the headlines are saying that Smashing Pumpkins fan dies but why associate the band with his death, they in no ways responsible the fans they are a renowned band and were just playing for the crowd now if some as*hole comes to the concert wrecked up and in suicidal mood then who knows what’s he up to and what his intentions are. These are freakish accidents that happen, people should be responsible for their own acts and their parents should be the ones keeping a check on their children. The organizers have a duty to do but somehow fans are as much responsible as anyone else.
You would think that since she’s on vacation, ‘Rehab’ singer Amy Winehouse would be out of trouble. Not. Wino was a bloody mess last week when she violently vomited blood all over her Caribbean hotel room.
The staff of Jade Mountain resort in St. Lucia were horrified when they were sent to the singer’s suite to clean up the mess. One worker commented to the Brit tabloid The Mirror saying that blood and vomit were all over the bathroom and that is was just terrible.
Management ultimately offered to send out for a doctor by Wino said, what else, ‘no, no, no’.