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.”