The middle-class, 個人として educated Queen of the Brits

By PAUL SCOTT

Last updated at 11:17 15 February 2007


Binge drinking. 麻薬-taking. A 無分別な of led tattos. And TWO eating disorders. Oh, what a perfect CV for the middle-class, 個人として educated Queen of the Brits:

Cocooned まっただ中に the Art Deco splendour of The Savoy's American 妨げる/法廷,弁護士業, the hotel's moneyed clientele settle 負かす/撃墜する to an evening of convivial conversation …を伴ってd by the faint 緊張するs of a tinkling piano.

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It is an elegant tableau marred only by the arrival from her room of the newest guest of this salubrious 設立. Lurching into 見解(をとる) in ジーンズs and a scruffy white T-shirt comes Britain's 最新の jazz diva, Amy Winehouse, with the avowed 意図 of livening up the 共同の.

To the echoes of embarrassed coughs, 行方不明になる Winehouse - her hair 似ているing a long-abandoned what beehive and her 注目する,もくろむs rimmed 黒人/ボイコット with streaked mascara - makes straight for the piano and 発表するs she is going to 'entertain' the 組み立てる/集結するd throng.

For the next hour, the 23-year-old singer, whose 評判 for 超過 is as famed as her 蒸し暑い 発言する/表明する, 中傷するs and shrieks her way through the middle-mangled lyrics of jazz 基準s, interspersed by a rambling and expletive-riddled monologue.

にもかかわらず desperate entreaties from staff to トン 負かす/撃墜する her 決まりきった仕事, 行方不明になる Winehouse carries on through eight songs until finally - and as fellow guests and singers Michael Ball and Jamie Cullum look on - she is led away by a member of the hotel's staff and advised to return to her room.

Hardly the sort of behaviour likely to endear the p rivate school educated singer to the 井戸/弁護士席-heeled denizens of The Savoy. But it is the type of

業績/成果 that has become ありふれた from the woman who scooped the best British 女性(の) gong at last night's prestigious Brit Awards in London.

So much so that her worried 管理/経営 is said to have begged the troubled, London-born singer to 捜し出す help for her 開始するing problems.

A few weeks ago, Amy …に出席するd a drunken 昼食 at the hotel where she 選ぶd up the South Bank Show's best pop award for her album 支援する To 黒人/ボイコット (the 記録,記録的な/記録する, which has sold 700,000 copies, was also up for a Brit). The aptly 指名するd 行方不明になる Winehouse later tried to explain her agitated behaviour by (人命などを)奪う,主張するing she had gone without sleep after arriving from New York 経由で a 途中滞在 in Cannes.

This might be more 納得させるing if it did not come on the 支援する of a 目録 of ますます bizarre behaviour from the decidedly strange 行方不明になる Winehouse.

Last month, friends 勧めるd her to check into a clinic after she left a London 行う/開催する/段階 having struggled through just one song. She ran, clutching her stomach, into the wings minutes into her 業績/成果 at G-A-Y in the West End.

The singer's 広報担当者 非難するd her 条件 on food 毒(薬)ing that she had 明らかに 選ぶd up in Miami. But friends 報告(する)/憶測d that she had been '絶対 paralytic' when she arrived at the 発生地, with one 説: 'There was no way she was ever going to be able to 成し遂げる in that 明言する/公表する. If she keeps going the way she is, she'll 結局最後にはーなる doing herself some serious 害(を与える) or even worse.

'It's 悲劇の the way she goes on いつかs, and the 量 she drinks would be considered too much for an entire rugby team, let alone a skinny young girl.

'Amy has amazing talent and it would be a shame to see her throw it all away. It's time for her to 直面する her demons and get help.'

No wonder the song she sang at last night's Brits 儀式 was called Rehab. The self-penned number 含むs the line: 'They tried to make me go to rehab. I said no, no, no.' < /p>

In fact, last year Amy did succumb to 圧力 from her worried friends and was taken to an 中毒 clinic. Yet she walked out before staff had filled in her admission form, 宣言するing she did not want to spend time with 'depressing people'.

The 取り消し of the 最新の gig comes after she was said to have gone on a 大規模な drinks binge with her friend Kelly Osbourne, and weeks after she 認める attacking a 女性(の) fan at one of her concerts (though she (人命などを)奪う,主張するs to have no recollection of the 出来事/事件).

Amy has also 自白するd to 存在 a 'violent drunk' who (警官の)巡回区域,受持ち区域 up her chef boyfriend, Alex, in another alcohol-fuelled 激怒(する).

All this comes after she put on an excruciating 業績/成果 when appearing on Channel 4' s Charlotte Church Show last October.

明白に drunk, she 粉砕するd her foot into a glass (米)棚上げする/(英)提議する and slurred her way through Michael Jackson's (警官の)巡回区域,受持ち区域 It, while singing with the programme's bemused hostess. The worst scenes were edited out by 生産者s.

Bizarrely, Amy defended herself by 説: 'I was drunk. Charlotte 招待するd me on the show, so she must know I'm a bit of a 義務/負債.'

To 追加する to 関心s about her health, the once buxom singer was pictured last summer looking alarmingly thin, having dropped four dress sizes on what she (人命などを)奪う,主張するd was a new fitness 政権.

Recently, however, she has 認める for the first time that she has 苦しむd from 'a little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia', though it should be said her 負わせる has lately crept 支援する up.

An 平等に worrying admission is that she has dabbled in コカイン, and her 最近の 激しい drinking has been brought on by her 試みる/企てるs to give up her £200-a-week cannabis 中毒 that saw her smoking two large 共同のs before breakfast.

One source, who saw her partying with friends recently in a 妨げる/法廷,弁護士業 in Camden, North London, told the Mail how the singer lined up a 列/漕ぐ/騒動 of her favourite cocktail called a Rickstasy (three parts vodka, one part Baileys, Southern 慰安 and 白人指導者べったりの東洋人 liqueur) an d 負かす/撃墜するd them one after the other.

'I have never seen anyone drink so much in such a short space of time; it was 現実に やめる scary,' she said. 'Her friends were egging her on.'

All of which is a long way from her middle-class, ユダヤ人の background in Southgate, North London, and her education at the £3,000-a-称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 開始する School in nearby Mill Hill.

But then Winehouse - she of the mockney accent - has always been far more willing to discuss her 激しく揺する ' n' roll lifestyle (after one broken 関係, she took to drinking Bourbon before getting out of bed) than coming clean about her respectable background.

Which is hardly surprising given that it is at 半端物s with her image of coming from 'the streets'.

Amy Jade Winehouse was brought up in a smart, detached home in the 郊外s with her older brother by her mother Janis, a pharmacist, and her London taxi-driver father Mitch.

Although her parents separated when Amy was nine, they remain a の近くに family . Amy later won a scholarship to the Sylvia Young Theatre School, where she was a classmate of Billie Piper .

Amy has always said she was expelled when she was 15 because of her wild ways. The reality , however, is rather more mundane.

によれば 行方不明になる Young, Amy's parents felt she wasn't 適用するing herself enough and transferred her to the 開始する School, where she managed to get five GCSEs.

Her husky 発言する/表明する won her a place in the 国家の 青年 Jazz Orchestra, where she was discovered by (n)役員/(a)執行力のあるs working for Simon Fuller, the former 経営者/支配人 of the Spice Girls.

Amy has since 開始する,打ち上げるd a stream of predictable 言葉の 強襲,強姦s on her fellow musicians in a desperate 試みる/企てる to appear 冷静な/正味の. She once 公然と非難するd Dido as 'bland', 追加するing: 'She makes me want to vomit.'

Then there is Madonna - 'an old lady' - and Katie Melua - 'she is s***'. Not to について言及する U2 singer Bono. At the Q Magazine Awards last year, she interrupted his speech with a four-letter rant.

Amy has used her songs to lay into her fathe r about his 申し立てられた/疑わしい infidelity and has taken swipes at a string of former lovers in 近づく-the-knuckle lyrics on her two 批判的に acclaimed albums, the first of which, Frank, made her a 星/主役にする when she was just 19.

Amy 収容する/認めるs to 令状ing many of the songs on 支援する To 黒人/ボイコット about a lover who kept seeing another girlfriend when they were dating.

'Whenever he spent the night with her, I would 攻撃する,衝突する the 瓶/封じ込める for 慰安,' she told an interviewer. 'I was even drinking first thing in the morning. By 早期に afternoon, I'd be in a mess. It wasn't very nice.'

Another 慣習に捕らわれない and 最終的に doomed 関係 was with singer Tyler James, with whom she 株d her Camden flat.

The couple operated an 'open' 関係, with 行方不明になる Winehouse cooking him dinners when he returned from his dalliances.

'Tyler might stay away for a couple of days with a girl, but all I'd care about is, did she 料金d him?' Amy has said.

She has the 指名する of another ex-lover, Blake, etched on her left breast to 追加する to a gaudy collection of tattoos, which 含むs a horseshoe, 雷 bolt and 錨,総合司会者 on her midriff emblazoned with the words 'Hello Sailor'.

In the past, she has been linked to Notting Hill 星/主役にする Rhys Ifans. And she is said to have had a 簡潔な/要約する fling with comedian Russell Brand, who hosted the Brits last night.

Amy took Alex, her boyfriend of nine months, and her father to the Earls 法廷,裁判所 儀式. 勝利,勝つ or lose, if Amy's troubling 最近の history is anything to go by, one 疑問s 行方不明になる Winehouse will remember much about the evening's events.

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