Winehouse, Snoop and the Obligations of Talent
Clive James‘ BBC Sunday morning monologue focuses on on the delinquency of Amy Winehouse via Snoop Dogg, Charles Dickens and Billie Holiday.
Text here, audio here (Realplayer)
“The duty of the greatly talented is to life itself, because what they do is the consecration of life…. perhaps a better ending would be what Philip Larkin said to the ghost of Sidney Bechet. “On me your voice falls as they say love should, like an enormous yes.”
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I remember what I said to myself the first time I heard Amy Winehouse: “Oh, mon Dieu!”
There’s no way for us to understand. We know nothing of her life (though we think we do).
It might be over in 6 months (I don’t wish that, of course!) and this might have been her gift to us. Life is like that…
Thanks Richard for this thought provoking post.
Jean Francois