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Speaker 1: and she lived the life that played out more like

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Speaker 1: seven reasons why that statement is true. Seven would be

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Speaker 1: the number of days each week the paparazzi would lurk

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Speaker 1: of life sized art gallery sculptures that predicted her early demise.

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Speaker 1: Another seven would be how much in hundreds of pounds

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Speaker 1: UK Royalty where her god daughter would make her professional

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Speaker 1: she had left to live after she stood trial for

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Speaker 1: assaulting a burlesque dancer. All totally on this our fourth

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Speaker 1: episode of season four, booed off stage life size sculptures

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Speaker 1: burlesque dancers in Amy Winehouse, I'm Jake Brennan and this

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Speaker 1: is the seven o'clock. Ye, the man could have been

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Speaker 1: a sorcerer. He was just missing the customary cloak and

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Speaker 1: because of the song. The song felt like magic. It

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Speaker 1: took something old, which itself was already recreated out of

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Speaker 1: all at once. But the song could be rationally explained,

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Speaker 1: explained as in broken Down, taken apart, dissected the layers

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Speaker 1: First there was a Hatchet sixty instrumental by the Shadows,

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Speaker 1: which it's sell was a cover of a song taught

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Speaker 1: Then came the incredible Bongo Bands seventy three version of

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Speaker 1: which was released on the Bongo Rock Album to little fanfare,

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Speaker 1: so little, in fact that The album was out of

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Speaker 1: print for years and heavily bootlegged, but it was quickly

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Speaker 1: adopted by underground DJs in New York City, most notably

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Speaker 1: The song was explosive, life affirming rhythm monster Apache became

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Speaker 1: You knew it when you heard it, like a familiar

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Speaker 1: after the Incredible Bongo Band released their version of Apache,

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Speaker 1: for Make You Look, the leadoff single from his two

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Speaker 1: But in two thousand two, Salam Remy was done well

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Speaker 1: Remy took the instrumental track from Naz has Made You Look,

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Speaker 1: Remy took that track and had Amy sing her evocative,

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Speaker 1: They all knew why. Hell everyone knew why. The medical

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Speaker 1: Amy thought about her upcoming trip to St. Lucia, away

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Speaker 1: and the murder was an accident, an act of hubrists.

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Speaker 1: The man sitting nearby with a smoking shotgun on his

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Speaker 1: He was, after all, famed beat poet william S. Burrows.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to shoot an apple off Amy's head allow

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Speaker 1: William Tell supposed to be a joke he missed. In

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Speaker 1: January two thousand nine, artist Marco Perego unveiled this scene

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Speaker 1: the Half Gallery. The title of the piece was the

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Speaker 1: live bullet, one accident is all it takes. His wife

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Speaker 1: they the ones responsible for pushing her to the edge,

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Speaker 1: forcing her to balance the pressure of fame on her

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Speaker 1: head while their hand grazed the trigger. Or maybe it

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Speaker 1: was Amy's fault. She was, after all, the one who

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Speaker 1: was playing the never ending game of fame, and to

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Speaker 1: this point was losing in tremendous fashion. She could have

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Speaker 1: wrong people, and there were no clear answers. If love

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Speaker 1: really was a losing game, then fame was absolutely fucking

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Speaker 1: routely losing game. She never wanted to be famous anyways.

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Speaker 1: The artist Marco Perego would explain that the piece represented

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Speaker 1: The paparazzi tracked her as if they were big game

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Speaker 1: prowling around every corner with their blinding flashes and incessant clicks,

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Speaker 1: and the media took those photos and created her narrative

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Speaker 1: for her through their bullshit headlines. She should have died

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Speaker 1: so many times before, if she believed anything The Sun

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Speaker 1: was no longer on her way to being dead. In fact,

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Speaker 1: Her Blake was gone. He'd abandoned her out of love,

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Speaker 1: She was in St. Lucia, soaking up the sun and

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Speaker 1: Josh Bowman there, a man, she said, who couldn't be

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Speaker 1: more different from her husband. Amy was the happiest she'd

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Speaker 1: ever been, she said to herself. She was getting sober,

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Speaker 1: she was riding horses once again, riding and recording music

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Speaker 1: with Salon Remy, and she was certainly moving on from Blake. Hell.

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Speaker 1: He was even nice enough to start the divorce proceedings.

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Speaker 1: So what, as the settlement said, she had to pay

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Speaker 1: It was worth it. She didn't have time for him.

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Speaker 1: She was too busy finding the real Amy again. She

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Speaker 1: was poised for a comeback. Her new album would be

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Speaker 1: return reborn. It was all smooth sailing from here on

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Speaker 1: out for the h MS Winehouse. She'd spend the better

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Speaker 1: time healthy. But mixing the required rituals of fame with

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Speaker 1: an addictive personality can be lethal. Balancing a top Amy's

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Speaker 1: head wasn't her career, it was her sanity. And even

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Speaker 1: if it's steadied for a moment, the finger on the

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Speaker 1: fatal shot before it was fired, get out of the

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Speaker 1: line of sight. And she had an idea to a

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Speaker 1: good one that would get the photographers and the tabloids

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Speaker 1: off her back for good. She hoped it would work.

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Speaker 1: It had to. Her entire life was at stake. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jake Brennan and this This is the seven Off seven

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Speaker 1: Club is hosted and produced by Me Jake Brennan for

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Speaker 1: Double Elvis in partnership with I Heart Radio. Zeth Lundie

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Speaker 1: mixed by Matt Bowden. Additional music and score elements by

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Speaker 1: Ryan Spraaker and Henry Luneta. This episode was written by

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