Shortly afterwards account bankrupt that Amy Winehouse had died on Saturday, her admirers and neighbors set up a canonizing in the Camden Town area of London. Today, the atmosphere there was eerily quiet, as a array of mourners both adolescent and old paid their respects and lay flowers, cigarettes, beer cans, abandoned wine glasses, accounting balladry and fatigued artwork. One composition at the site, accounting in brand on affiche board, is blue-blooded "Oh Amy Why?" and pleads "Amy why? Amy why? / Why has this happened? / You were so young, so gifted, so talented." Another note, absorbed to a boutonniere of flowers, reads "Thanks Amy, you fabricated an old bedrock and roller wish to play again, reside again."
Winehouse was a accoutrement of the Camden Town neighborhood, which boasts a actual alive night life, and a approved at the Hawley Pub, area she consistently interacted with – and occasionally served – customers. Tonight, a approved told Rolling Stone that the pub is planning on demography all added profits from Saturday and altruistic it to a could cause "worthy of Amy."
Simon, a Camden Town citizen of over 30 years who beneath to accord his endure name, remembered Winehouse from her canicule alive at a bounded launderette and her performances at the Jazz Cafe. "It doesn't accomplish it any beneath bad that she was damaged, that she was a woman in pain," he said. "They'll bethink her as a abundant Londoner and a abundant artist, one of the greatest choir of the endure 50 years."
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Another neighbor, who gave her name as Carola, told Rolling Stone that Winehouse had seemed to be in acceptable appearance in the weeks afore her death. "You could tell, she was a bit messed up sometimes, but I anticipation afterwards her rehabilitation she was searching a bit better, but, yeah, absolutely surprised."
Sisters Trudi and Kelly Wilkes, from adjacent Primrose Hill, aswell knew Winehouse from the Hawley Pub. "I accept to say, a lot of her antics fabricated me laugh, but it acquainted like I was bedlam with her, not at her. A lot of humans accept fabricated some abhorrent comments on Facebook but these are the aforementioned ones that wish their kids to abound up to be famous," said Kelly. "People don't apprehend the amount of fame."
"How can anyone not be a fan of Amy Winehouse?" asked Trudi. "Part of me consistently capital to accept that she would affected this and array herself out. Everybody loves a improvement kid. We can't accept she's gone."
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The canonizing website has aswell admiring a amount of tourists. Marta Mayo, a company from Spain, chock-full by the website with a can of Stella Artois in one duke and a cigarette in the other, "just like Amy would accept wanted." Remarking on the affection at the memorial, she said, "It's so quiet, it's strange. I about feel as if we should be singing because that's what Amy would accept done. If I could sing, I would alpha something."
Londoners were aswell casual through today on their way home from work."It's so affecting getting here," said Tom Marshall, a 27-year-old artist from London. "I wasn't afraid if I heard the news, but I was in a way shocked. Obviously, I didn't apperceive her as a being and I apparently alone got the abridged appearance of her as a junkie. One of the sad things is that that may accept contributed to this: the burden of the paparazzi alfresco her abode all the time."
Marshall added: "The dusk over London on the day she died was incredible. I've never apparent annihilation like it. I took a photo of it and accept just placed it on the memorial. Friends of abundance from my squat, we aswell corrective the words 'Amy Winehouse R.I.P.' on to the foreground of our house. I've put a account of that actuality too."
Reporting from London by Chiara Atik and Chine Mbubaegbu.
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