A look back at music video's Amy Winehouse best moments for saying Goodbye !

Winehouse is one of a curiously high number of prominent artists to pass away at age 27. Here's a list of a number of those stars, including Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin...

A look back at music video Amy Winehouse best moments

While Amy Winehouse, who tragically passed away today (23 July,2011), might have been better known for her life outside the music in her final years, that reputation sadly overshadows her immense contribution to music.

Rocketing to fame in 2003 with her Ivor Novello-winning, Mercury-nominated jazz-soul masterpiece 'Frank', and following it up three years later with the five times Grammy-winning 'Back To Black', Amy Winehouse leaves a small but vital catalogue that will seal her reputation as one of the greatest singers of the last decade.

Here's a look back at her best moments
'In My Bed'

One of the standout tracks from her debut builds on the same sample from Nas' 'Made You Look' but in this case blends a sultry soul with distinct post-millenial production, flute flutters and a soft chorus to mesmerising effect.

'You Sent Me Flying'

The flipside to 'In My Bed' (the pair formed the third single from 'Frank') strips it right down to a simple piano accompaniment to showcase Amy's unrivalled vocal talents before adding a simple breakbeat halfway through. "His message was brutal but the delivery was kind" she sings halfway through the tale, and you're right there with her throughout.

Goodbye Amy Winehouse

This episode of the PJ Trell Show, I say my goodbyes to Amy Winehouse who was recently found died in her London home. I was a very big fan of Amy's music and sadden me that someone with so much talent couldn't be helped. Goodbye Amy, I hope you are finally at piece.

If you were a fan on Amy Winehouse, please leave a comment.

Same sex-marriage of the year 2008 and not so far !

Same sex-marriage of the year listing seen as "Gay -Eureka !" ever ?

Talking about "Gayest year ever?" a newest post on Msn entertainment, an exclusive year in review written By Barbara Card Atkinson.

The list including pictures would be more interests and for knowing about "the real world" as the source meaning.

The Gay Nineties have nothing on 2008: From the "That's So Gay" ads to the November H8 rallies to a rash of "who's who and gay, too" self-reveals, truly, we're wrapping up the gayest year ever (so far!) in pop culture.

Same-Sex Marriage Support With Star Power:

celebs take on Proposition 8 in California was a ballot amendment this November calling a halt to same-sex marriage, and it was a call to action for some big Hollywood names. Brad Pitt publicly donated $100,000 to fight the California ballot initiative, and other well-known contributors included Mary McCormack, Ellen DeGeneres, Bridget Fonda, Gus Van Sant, "The Real World" co-producer Jonathan Murray and George Takei. A pre-election, Beverly Hills fundraiser to defeat 8 that included performances by Mary J. Blige and Melissa Etheridge quickly sold out, and was attended by Barbra Streisand, Rob Reiner and others. And when they weren't donating their time or their performances, celebrities were talking to the media.

George Clooney said to E!'s Ted Casablanca, "At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black."

When it was apparent that the right to same-sex marriage had been repealed, DeGeneres ran this statement on the official "Ellen" Web site: "I believe one day a 'ban on gay marriage' will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us."

And on December 3, a three-minute video, "Prop 8: The Musical," was posted on FunnyOrDie.com.The mock community-theater production included singing and dancing by Neil Patrick Harris, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Margaret Cho, Rashida Jones and Andy Richter, with Jack Black as Jesus, espousing the concept of gay marriage as the cure for the US's economic woes. Within 24-hours, the clip hit bona fide viral status, with more than 1.1 million views on FunnyOrDie.com.

"It was like, 'Eureka! That's right, that's what I do!" said "Prop 8: The Musical" writer/composer Marc Shaiman, Tony-winning composer of "Hairspray" and "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut." "If I'm going to stand on the soap box, at least let me sing and dance."

While the passing of Proposition 8 discouraged and disappointed countless people, more celebs are coming out as gay-friendly. Could Hollywood really be wrapping up the concept of career-fear driven closeting? It's not there yet, certainly, but increasingly, sexual orientation is becoming just one more aspect of a celebrity's public persona. 

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Jim Morrison &The Doors mistaken for political extremists in 1968- If not ?

Jim Morrison said :"Stranger Days !" ,JIM & the Doors mistaken for political extremists in 1968

A new information talking about "things know and unknow" of Jim Morrison , i clipped this article from the BBC.UK posting on my Yousaytoo journal following a new serie mix-video on Youtube to story telling " A death behind the life music of Jim Morrison the doors front man".
This is a real story ,just listen now :
Jim Morrison, the Doors at the time of "The anti-Vietnam war demonstration of March 1968".
As the press reports became more lurid, Mary Whitehouse, moral campaigner, was issuing telegrams to the Met Police.
One calls for "something to be done about " BBC Radio Four's "The World This Weekend" after it interviewed protesters. Another says this:

From: Mrs Mary Whitehouse - To: Ch. Supt. Special Branch.

I have received information from an American friend of mine that an organisation called "THE DOORS" who are a political extremist organisation, are now in England...With the student plans for demonstrations next month, I do not think that their arrival here in the United Kingdom is a coincidence...

Yes, Jim Morrison and the Doors - in England at the time for a drugged-out concert that can still be seen on Youtube, even if Newsnight can't afford to show you the official archive (!)
Were mistaken for some kind of revolutionary group. Actually, when you consider their impact on music, culture, fashion and the general androgyny of the next 40 years they probably were revolutionaries - though the worst they inflicted on the establishment at the time was a stumbling press conference at the ICA.

As the demo approached the final police precautions were put into place: a Major Biddle and three other police explosives experts - until then engaged, Dixon of Dock Green-style in safe cracking exploits - were bunked up at Cannon Row police station for 48 hours in the run up to the event. From the documents it is clear they were there to deal with high explosives, not petrol bombs: a separate team was to deal with these. So spooked were the authorities that they set up the first bomb squad, at least a year before the formation of the Provisional IRA and the Angry Brigade.

In the end the demo passed of much quieter than the previous one. A breakaway group headed for Grosvenor Square and clashed with police but the vast mass - theatre critic Ken Tynan estimated 110,000 - stayed in Hyde Park to hear speeches. By this time, many colleges, including the LSE were occupied and Tariq Ali's radical paper "Black Dwarf" was urging "All Power to the Campus Soviets".

The police log of arrests and incidents for the day looks puny now: one German was arrested with an air gun and some dope; a man was found in the stables of a barracks, allegedly preparing to sabotage police horses. There were three Molotov Cocktails discovered - they were handed in to the police by a demonstrator at the Cenotaph on Whitehall, just yards from where Major Biddle and co were keeping watch.
As ol' Jim Morrison hismself said: Strange Days!
I repeat : Jim Morrison hismself said: Strange Days!.


About The demo

Especially ,continued with a short post of Newsnight ,blog of BBC.UK.
The demonstrators were a bit lightweight compared with today, nobody was seriously attacked or hurt. All in all a really unremarkable day.
Demonstrator Ian Birchall that you seen his action on the video mix, now in his sixties, tells me, "now, on top of an illegal war we've got climate change as well...I want to smash it even more!"

The Secret files "Autumn Offensive".
Information, a stack of police files relating to the much bigger anti-war demonstration of October that year. Watch tonight: they tell a story of rising panic in the establishment: the creation of Britain's first bomb squad; an intelligence feedback loop between Special Branchand the press that ramped up the tension; and, farcically, the rock group The Doors being mistaken for a group of foreign revolutionaries...
The anti-Vietnam war demonstration of March 1968 was a turning point in post-war politics: it turned violent right in front of the world's media; the police were shown throwing punches into the faces of already arrested students, and in general losing control. The police files from that event are considered too sensitive to release.The Vietnam Solidarity Campaign demonstrations, it's easy to forget, were not just anti-war: they were overtly supportive of the North Vietnamese side in the war with America. But Newsnight has obtained, under Freedom of Information, a stack of police files relating to the much bigger anti-war demonstration of October that year
Fearing a repeat of this, we now know, from the Secret files, that the London Division of the British Army offered to assist the Met during the so called "Autumn Offensive". An offer that was declined, though it was discussed also at Cabinet level.

Everyone can watch BBC video archive footage of the 1968 protests from link address included ,go to this post on NewsNight Blog .

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