Amy Winehouse’s classic appearance on Buzzcocks condensed into 3:39. Comedy gold.
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I’ve just received an exciting book commission with a very tight deadline. So I might not be posting quite as regularly during July. In the meantime, I am on BBC Radio Berkshire this lunchtime discussing the aforementioned book.
Welcome to the blogosphere, CST.
These are busy times for me (not least putting the finishing touches to this little baby) but I will be back very soon with a proper post. I’m attending an event on Friday which I am expecting to be fertile ground for an Oy Va Goy special. So watch this space.
Meanwhile, Facebook users might like to join my ever-growing group I’m British And I Love Israel. See you there.
This week I am completing the writing of my biography of Simon Cowell. As regular readers will know I’m an admirer of Cowell and it’s been a joy to write about him. I’m really pleased with the book.
Nice to see Look magazine give my newly-published, updated Amy Winehouse biography – now officially an international bestseller – four out of five stars, describing it as “gripping”.
Now available in paperback all good shops, folks!
…when you can have four?
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you my next four releases, all published next month:
Amy Winehouse: The Biography (updated paperback)
Alexandra Burke: Hallelujah, A Star Is Born
Not In My Name: A Compendium Of Modern Hypocrisy (paperback)
Phew…
Quick reminder that I am on The Biography Channel tonight (Sunday) at 9pm, talking about Amy Winehouse. You can see a clip here. The show is repeated endlessly, starting tomorrow at 9am and 3pm.
I will appear on the Amy Winehouse documentary on The Biography Channel this Sunday at 9pm. I filmed the interview while in Hollywood last October, as you do.
You can see a clip from the show – including yours truly – here.
As I wrote in Not In My Name, it is amusing when ageing rock men criticise Amy Winehouse’s lifestyle, even though they caned it beyond belief in their prime. Francis Rossi of Status Quo has had a pop at her drug-use, which was rich coming from a man who boasts that he took so much cocaine that his septum disappeared down the plughole. The horrible Ian Brown, too, has criticised her love of a drink or two, saying that she must be “scared of life”. Hmm, and I suppose his famously prodigious smoking of pot is motivated by something other than a desire to escape reality.
Now, Alex James of Blur – who admits he has spent the best part of a million pounds on cocaine – says he will be surprised if Amy and Pete Doherty live beyond 2010. Is this a touch of wishful thinking from an over-the-hill man who misses being the bell of the ball? Or just straightforward hypocrisy?
Mind you, I see that the Blur reunion tickets aren’t selling as quickly as hoped. So I suppose James’s leeching off her limelight might be just a desperate publicity stunt. It will soon be time for another ‘We’re not doing it for the money which is why we’re charging £50 per ticket’ interview from the vile Damon Albarn.
PS – Speaking of Not In My Name, thanks to Craig Purshouse for naming it his book of 2008. I always said you were a wise one, Craig! Thanks also to Nick Stone for naming it among his faves of 2008. I’m glad you liked it guys.
So the rather lovely-looking Alex Haines says that Amy Winehouse has spent up to £3,500 a week on drugs. He also says she is a bulimic who stuffs her face with McDonalds and then throws up over the sink.
Meanwhile, more photos are forthcoming of Amy on her holiday in St Lucia. She’s looking great. Perhaps her lifestyle has more to recommend it than we thought?
Come on Amy, there must be a book in this: ‘Amy Winehouse’s Crack & Big Mac Diet’. You know where to find me if you need a ghostwriter.
I had completely forgotten I did this interview. Not surprising, really. Not only was it a year ago, but I’d also spent the weekend at Julie’s prior to this chat. I was still a little bit mashed as I did it. Method acting, one could say, given the subject matter! I love the OTT style of the show!
I particularly enjoy the anger that rises to the surface during the “bitch” bits!
I haven’t been watching Strictly Come Dancing at all. But I know that Rachel Stevens is in tonight’s final. I did a big feature with her a couple of years ago. I spent the best part of three days with her and she was absolutely wonderful throughout. We gossiped about Busted and Lemar backstage at Saturday Night With Ant & Dec, we strolled from bar to bar in Soho and giggled as a series of men more or less fell at her feet, we discussed which Arsenal players we fancied and we tittered about her pointy nipples. Oh yes, we even managed to squeeze in an interview and photo-shoot.
She’s lovely and I really hope she wins. I might even tune in!
You’re looking great Paris!
I received another foreign edition of one of my books today. It was the Brazilian edition of my Amy Winehouse biography, and very nice it looks too. But the most exciting aspect is that there is a television advert in Brazil for my book! See below.
My Amy and Paris Hilton biogs are selling well overseas. At the last count, the Amy book had been sold to Belgium, France, Brazil, Holland and Finland. The Paris book has so far gone to Sweden, Russia, France, Finland and Japan. Bravo!