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Amy Winehouse: A Timeline Of Her Troubles
Posted on 2011-07-25 03:00:13
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Back to Black singer's story littered with substance abuse and arrests.By Jocelyn Vena

Amy Winehouse performs with Mark Ronson in July of 2010Photo: Samir Hussein/ Getty Images

Amy Winehouse's success as an artist was equally matched by her trouble with substance abuse and the law. Shortly after releasing her star-making 2006 album, Back to Black, the London-born singer became a tabloid fixture, with the press constantly covering her professional ups as well as her personal downs. On Saturday, the singer was found dead in her London apartment.

Click for photos of Amy Winehouse's life and career.

While she had been a staple of the British music scene since releasingher debut album, Frank, in 2003, it was her 2006 album thatlaunched her as an international star and ushered in a new sound thatharked back to the girl-group days of the '50s and '60s, leading to anumber of copy-cat artists releasing albums around the same time.

2007On her 2006 track "Rehab," Winehouse chronicled her love of partyinghard and her defiance to seek help for it, setting a course for theissues in her personal life. Midyear, Winehouse's camp began denyingthe singer had a substance-abuse problem, as she began to cancel dates, a string of eventsthat would become commonplace in her short-lived career.

Even as the issues in her personal life began to cause speculation,her music career was thriving, with accolades flowing in from rapperslike Jay-Z, who began appearing on remixes of her songs, broadening her appeal to a wider spectrum of audiences beyond retro-leaning hipsters.

But her legal troubles would make just as many headlines as her awardwins and chart-topping success. In October 2007, she was arrested formarijuana possession, withher equally troubled husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, by her side in Norway.

Before the year's end, she would also have Visa problems and health issues, making shows hard to keep.

2008As professional accolades flowed in, evidence of her drug problemsbecame more and more evident. In January 2008, a video surfacedallegedly showing the singer smoking crack. Weeks later, she would check into rehab.

In February, she wasn't be able to attend the Grammys after her Visa was denied, however she did appear via satellite. At the show, she took home five trophies, including the big prize, Record of the Year.

As 2008 rolled along, authorities continually questioned the singer ina number of cases, including an assault case in April and a drug-related arrest in May tied to the video ofher allegedly doing drugs. Those charges were later dropped.

In June of that year, she went public with the news that she had anearly stage of emphysema, as confirmed by her father, who became her mouthpiece and her biggest supporter in the face of her personal adversities. Later in the year, she hit the stage again in shows that were both redeeming and disastrous.

2009Things did not slow down for Winehouse in 2009. Her husband filed fordivorce in January of that year, and in March, she had to cancel herCoachella set after beingcharged with assault in connection with a 2008 incident.

Regardless of her legal and health issues, she kept booking gigs,though not necessarily to successful results. She walked out early ona gig in St. Lucia in May.

By July, she was officially divorced and acquitted on the 2008 assault charges. Her big public appearance was at the U.K.'s V Festival in August.

However, by December, she was once again charged with assault in connection with anotherincident at a theater in the U.K. where she heckled a performance of"Cinderella" and reportedly assaulted theater manager Richard Pound,who complained that Winehouse had pulled his hair, punched him andkicked him when he asked her to move seats.

2010After laying low for a good part of 2010, Winehouse appeared at a gigfor her producer Mark Ronson in London, where she messed up the lyrics to their track "Valerie" and was seen drinking and being boisterous offstage. Despite the antics, she promised new music by early 2011, a promise she did not keep.

2011Her last stint in rehab was reportedly in May 2011, however, herattempts to get clean never truly helped her defeat her demons. At adisastrous show in Belgrade in June, she showed up more than an hourlate, then repeatedly left the stage mid-performance, forgot lyrics toher songs and even dropped a microphone. Shortly after, the singercanceled more tour dates.

On Saturday, Winehouse was found dead at age 27, just five weeks after her last show, leaving behind a legacy of fame for both her musical influence and her troubles.

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