| Whitney Houston Dies | |
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| madfor4 | Feb 12 2012, 08:26 AM Post #1 |
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Whitney Houston, great voice, not so great personal life |
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| Caro | Feb 12 2012, 09:06 AM Post #2 |
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No. I don't think I knew that till today. Don't take much notice of stories of singers/actors' disastrous personal lives. This was on our online news site in NZ and although most of the comments were of the RIP, great voice, sad about the rest sort of thing, several were really quite unpleasant about people on drugs deserving this or silly remarks like "Who? No loss." (Comments are monitored so nothing too ghastly gets printed.) It's odd to me why people feel the need to say such things. Not analytical or sensibly critical, just smart-ass comments. Well, not even smart. |
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| madfor4 | Feb 12 2012, 09:23 AM Post #3 |
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Pete Townsend's 1965..."hope I die before I get old" (My Generation) has become almost the 'norm' |
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| Mobson | Feb 12 2012, 02:38 PM Post #4 |
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In an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer in 2002, Whitney said "The biggest devil is Me...I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy." Sad but surely predicable news! - in her hey-day in the eighties and nineties, Whitney ruled the world of female singers with a voice that was an incredible instrument, which garnered her millions of record sales around the world, and many many plaudits and music awards; she was an incredibly beautiful and charismatic black woman who came from a family of equally strong-voiced women, her mother, her cousin and her godmother Aretha Franklin; she appeared to have everything life could offer and her powerful presence filled the screen when she made a film, co-starring with Kevin Costner called The Bodyguard in 1992, which became a $400 million success worldwide. She later revealed on the Oprah Winfrey show in 2009 that this was when things really started going wrong during a tumultuous marriage and an addiction to crack and cocaine drugs. It has been very sad to see her gradual decline; her skeletal frame and very raspy, weakened voice showed things were not going at all well for her, despite her publicity machine's current plans to get her on the panel of reality t.v. shows and perform at concerts this year. A mobile video filmed by an audience member at one of the pre-grammy parties she attended this week, shows her dueting with another female singer, endeavouring to sing the gospel song 'Jesus Loves Me'..trying to get her voice to work must have been heartbreaking viewing... This weekend is the most important in the American music calendar, and tonight at the Grammy Awards apparently all the stops are being pulled out to make sure there will be a fitting tribute to a Diva who died less than twenty-four hours ago in a hotel room in Beverly Hills at the age of 48. Better to remember her at the height of her singing career, before and harmful drugs came along...RIP Whitney ...selected this one because it's just her singing to a captivated audience.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDhxKVuVYaY Edited by Mobson, Feb 12 2012, 02:59 PM.
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| becky sharp | Feb 12 2012, 03:43 PM Post #5 |
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I heard this very sad news as it was breaking (as they say) last night .. ....she was a beautilful looking woman with an amazing voice and was much too young to die.
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| rumbaba | Feb 12 2012, 09:56 PM Post #6 |
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She made an album with Archie Shepp, which nobody has ever heard of except me - maybe I imagined it. She murdered Dolly Parton's classic 'I will always love you' but she was a great talent. She was, like many others, consumed by the celebrity circus. The fame monster destroyed her. |
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| chris crossing | Feb 13 2012, 04:52 PM Post #7 |
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Too true: munched her up and spat her out. A lot of talent too. I agree about 'I Will Always Love Hugh' - the Dolly Parton version is outstanding, but the Whitney version makes me cringe. Like much else about Dolly |
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| rumbaba | Feb 13 2012, 07:04 PM Post #8 |
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Here is some top drawer Whitney http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xj4xGiXfW0 Only 18 when she recorded this. Great stuff!
Edited by rumbaba, Feb 13 2012, 11:39 PM.
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| rumbaba | Feb 13 2012, 09:36 PM Post #9 |
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"She made an album with Archie Shepp, which nobody has ever heard of except me - maybe I imagined it. " In a sense I did imagine it. I heard this track with Whitney and Archie Shepp on Jazz FM, back in 1982 and tried at the time, without success, to track it down. It turns out that Whitney and Archie only perform on the one track. Nona Hendryx, Fred Frith, Nile Rodgers, and various other interesting guests perform on the album http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Down Edited by rumbaba, Feb 13 2012, 09:41 PM.
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| caissier | Feb 14 2012, 12:47 AM Post #10 |
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It's so unfortunate that it takes an often sad death for somebody's talent to be appreciated properly ...... especially this time by Sony Music ..... http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/13/whitney-houston-album-price Her problems seem to have been caused by her association with 'bad boy' Bobby Brown, which brings Amy Winehouse to mind, then others. Who knows? You feel like wanting to help (though you can't). Some people appear to have an attraction to inexorable destruction. I have a friend who once 'had it all', brilliantly clever, but became alcholic and now is in a wheelchair with brain-damage and grindingly slurred speech and probably won't last long. He is resignedly cheerful about it. Awful to see it as it happens. |
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| Mobson | Feb 16 2012, 10:23 AM Post #11 |
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Whitney's final show looks like it will be her funeral... to be held at the aptly named 'Showdown' New Hope Baptist Church in the singer's home town of New Jersey at noon local time on Saturday. The late singer's publicist has chosen one person who will be allowed into the sanctuary and although the funeral itself will be a private family affair, the ceremony will be streamed online, "for thousands around the world to pay their respects" on Saturday at noon local time. Yesterday her publicist revealed that Whitney's godmother, soul singer Aretha Franklin, will sing at the service, while it's been reported her ex-husband Bobby Brown has been asked to stay away by the Houston family, although Bobby insists he will be there to comfort his daughter. While reports had circulated that Houston's funeral would be a massive public service held at the 19,000-seat Prudential Center, also in Newark, her mother insisted on a ceremony at the church where the star honed her legendary voice. Pastor and gospel singer Marvin Winans, a Houston family friend, told the Detroit Free Press he was asked to preside over the funeral by Houston's mother, Cissy. The 2003 funeral of the singer's father and onetime manager John Houston also was held at the church. |
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| Mobson | Feb 20 2012, 11:04 AM Post #12 |
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Whitney's celebration of her life was a traditional black funeral service lasting over 4 hours and billed as a 'home-going" rather than a funeral, over which Dionne Warwick presided. "God said it's time Nippy. Your work is done" stated a note in the ceremony's printed programme, written by her mother Cissy, using the star's pet name. I switched on to Sky news channel to watch around 6pm on Saturday, think it started an hour before, and heard Bonny Grier say that we are watching the creme de la creme of the black industry say goodbye to Whitney. What incredible voices the people, legends of the gospel community, who decided to sing individually have - no fancy sound systems - they sang their hearts out in praise of her life and hardly any mention of her troubled life. It was a very intimate but classy send off - Guests included Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan, Mary J Blige, Queen Latifah, Spike Lee and Oprah Winfrey. Stevie Wonder wrote an adapted song version just for her, and Alicia Keyes screamed her way through a song about an Angel...R Kelly's contribution was perfect - heartfelt and classy. Aretha Franklin was too ill to attend. Kevin Costner, duly moved, made sense and spoke from the heart, as did her 'industry father' producer & mentor Clive Davis and her sister-in-law manager. I did 'move away from the ceremony' when the preaching started in earnest and came back at the end to see her coffin being exited down the aisle of the church to the strains of Whitney's own rendition of "I Will Always Love You"...Fitting.
Edited by Mobson, Feb 20 2012, 02:07 PM.
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