Amy Winehouse Autopsy Report

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But everyone knew that Amy Winehouse had a massive alcohol problem. On July 23, 2011, her bodyguard found her dead in her London apartment.

Amy Winehouse Full Autopsy Report The first inquest was rescheduled after it was found the original coroner was underqualified. Winehouse wrote her first song as a 10-year-old and learned to play guitar when she was a teenager. She went on to win six Grammys from her album Back to Black which documented her personal problems.

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Amy Winehouse was an exceptional talent whose wild and too brief career was cut short eight years ago today. On July 23, 2011, the soul singer died of alcohol poisoning and became yet another member of the '27 Club.'

Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club
I died a hundred times
Turning to alcohol in the wake of the success of Back to Black, Amy Winehouse was often too drunk to perform and was again booed off the stage in Belgrade in June 2011 before canceling her Europe tour. A month later she died of alcohol poisoning. The singer with the unique jazz-soul voice, who was also mercilessly targeted by the paparazzi, seemed destined to die young.
Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club
I swear that I don't have a gun
In April 1994, Kurt Cobain committed suicide by shooting himself. The pressures of his career, along with depression and drug addiction — excessive amounts of Valium and heroin were found in his system — got too much, despite having recently fathered a child. His death marked not only the end of the band Nirvana, but also the conclusion of a short but wild grunge music era.
Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club
Break on through to the other side
Jim Morrison came to personify the hedonistic lifestyle of the late 1960s counterculture. The Doors frontman was a poet who expressed what many weren't able to put into words. And he showed them how to live a wild, unfiltered life, one that ultimately led to the breakup of his band. An alcoholic Morrison retreated to Paris, where he died of a heart attack while sitting in a bathtub in July 1971.
Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club
You can't always get what you want
Rolling Stones founding guitarist Brian Jones started to became alienated from the band in the mid-1960s as he consumed large amounts of alcohol and drugs before being arrested for possession. While Mick Jagger and Keith Richards managed to maintain their wild boy image and still turn up for shows, Jones fell deeper into an abyss till he was sacked in 1969 before drowning in his own swimming pool.
Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club
Purple haze, all in my brain
Jimi Hendrix was the enigmatic icon of psychedelic rock, a guitar god who also became a mascot for the hippie and peace movement. His career was to last for only four years, with his band the Experience breaking up due to frictions caused by constant touring and drug-taking. A year later, on September 18, 1970, the world's highest paid rock star took nine sleeping pills and died of asphyxia.
Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club
Never hear me when I cry at night
Janis Joplin started it all at once — singing, heavy drinking, taking drugs and being catapulted into her music career. The bands she worked with took full advantage of her legendary blues voice, while she herself saw to it that drugs were always available at parties. Joplin once said: 'On the stage, I have sex with 25,000 people — and then I go home alone.' She died of a heroin overdose in 1970.
Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club
Suicide is painless
Bright shirts, loud make-up and nasty texts: The Manic Street Preachers were a late response to 1970s punk. When someone expressed doubts about their credibility, singer Richey Edwards cut into his own skin with knives. Only a few understood at the time that such acts were the symptoms of psychiatric illness. In 1995, Edwards disappeared without leaving a trace. He was 27 years old.

Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club
I died a hundred times
Turning to alcohol in the wake of the success of Back to Black, Amy Winehouse was often too drunk to perform and was again booed off the stage in Belgrade in June 2011 before canceling her Europe tour. A month later she died of alcohol poisoning. The singer with the unique jazz-soul voice, who was also mercilessly targeted by the paparazzi, seemed destined to die young.
Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club
I swear that I don't have a gun
In April 1994, Kurt Cobain committed suicide by shooting himself. The pressures of his career, along with depression and drug addiction — excessive amounts of Valium and heroin were found in his system — got too much, despite having recently fathered a child. His death marked not only the end of the band Nirvana, but also the conclusion of a short but wild grunge music era.
Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club
Break on through to the other side
Jim Morrison came to personify the hedonistic lifestyle of the late 1960s counterculture. The Doors frontman was a poet who expressed what many weren't able to put into words. And he showed them how to live a wild, unfiltered life, one that ultimately led to the breakup of his band. An alcoholic Morrison retreated to Paris, where he died of a heart attack while sitting in a bathtub in July 1971.
Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club
You can't always get what you want
Rolling Stones founding guitarist Brian Jones started to became alienated from the band in the mid-1960s as he consumed large amounts of alcohol and drugs before being arrested for possession. While Mick Jagger and Keith Richards managed to maintain their wild boy image and still turn up for shows, Jones fell deeper into an abyss till he was sacked in 1969 before drowning in his own swimming pool.
Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club
Purple haze, all in my brain
Jimi Hendrix was the enigmatic icon of psychedelic rock, a guitar god who also became a mascot for the hippie and peace movement. His career was to last for only four years, with his band the Experience breaking up due to frictions caused by constant touring and drug-taking. A year later, on September 18, 1970, the world's highest paid rock star took nine sleeping pills and died of asphyxia.
Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club
Never hear me when I cry at night
Janis Joplin started it all at once — singing, heavy drinking, taking drugs and being catapulted into her music career. The bands she worked with took full advantage of her legendary blues voice, while she herself saw to it that drugs were always available at parties. Joplin once said: 'On the stage, I have sex with 25,000 people — and then I go home alone.' She died of a heroin overdose in 1970.
Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club
Suicide is painless
Bright shirts, loud make-up and nasty texts: The Manic Street Preachers were a late response to 1970s punk. When someone expressed doubts about their credibility, singer Richey Edwards cut into his own skin with knives. Only a few understood at the time that such acts were the symptoms of psychiatric illness. In 1995, Edwards disappeared without leaving a trace. He was 27 years old.

Growing up, Amy Winehouse wanted only one thing: to perform. The daughter of a taxi driver and a pharmacist who was raised in the London suburb of Southgate, Winehouse was bored at school and rebelled against her teachers because she was only interested in one subject: music.

'...this dream to be very famous'

At the age of 12, Amy competed confidently at the prestigious Sylvia Young Theater School. In her application, she wrote: 'I would say that my school life and school reports are filled with 'could do betters' and 'does not work to her full potential.' I want to go somewhere where I am stretched right to my limits and perhaps even beyond. To sing in lessons without being told to shut up … But mostly I have this dream to be very famous. To work on stage. It's a lifelong ambition. I want people to hear my voice and just…forget their troubles for five minutes.'

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The headmistress was amazed by Amy's talent: 'It is hard to overstate just how much she struck me as unique, both as a composer and performer, from the moment she first came through the doors at the age of 13, sporting the same distinctive hairstyle that she has now.

Her abilities could put her in the same league as Judy Garland or Ella Fitzgerald. She could be one of the greats,' Sylvia Young remembered years later. Amy was overjoyed when she was inducted into London's well-known talent factory.

Early debut

Amy Winehouse was only 19 when she signed her first record deal. A year later, her debut album 'Frank' was released in 2004 and immediately reached number 3 on the British charts. Not only did Amy sing, she also wrote about her life. On Frank she processed the relationship with her ex-boyfriend.

Amy was a white woman with a black soul voice, the critics enthused. She herself was inspired by the 1960s, calling Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Ella Fitzgerald her role models. The idiosyncratic singer also adapted a sixties fashion aesthetic with trademark beehive hairstyle and thick eyeliner.

But her mega success was coupled with increasing discomfort on stage and a fear of performing in front of large audiences. Perhaps to compensate, she began to roam the clubs and bars after concerts and drowned the pressure to perform in alcohol.

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Struggling with success

On one of her pub crawls, Amy met the heroin-addicted Blake Fielder-Civil and instantly fell for him. With her new lover she plunged more and more often into drug and alcohol excesses. When he left her after a few months, Winehouse was devastated and sang about their tumultuous relationship on the album Back To Black. The album earned her five Grammy awards and finally made her a world star.

But it was the song 'Rehab' — about the unsuccessful attempt by her father and her manager to put Winehouse in a rehabilitation clinic — that dominated the charts. She wrote the song in a couple of hours and it became an anthem for a generation of young tortured souls.

Singer Amy Winehouse kisses fiance Blake Fielder-Civil in 2007

Tragic ending

Eighteen months after the split, Blake Fielder-Civil knocked on Winehouse's door again. The two married, but the relationship was fraught. They divorced around two years later in 2009.

Winehouse's career was concurrently stalling. She often staggered drunk on stage and her once powerful voice sounded weak and hollow. Audiences booed her. Concerts were stopped and whole tours were canceled — for 'health reasons,' said her management. But everyone knew that Amy Winehouse had a massive alcohol problem.

On July 23, 2011, her bodyguard found her dead in her London apartment. The cause of death was alcohol poisoning.

'She could bring songs to life like no other,' wrote an English journalist after her death. 'But she was unable to live her own life.'

Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
Excess and vulnerability
She was a fun-loving young woman and incredibly talented singer. As is the case with so many other artistic genii, her life was a melodrama - full of grand successes and tragedies. The documentary on her life by British director Asif Kapadia opens in German cinemas on July 16. It portrays the soul diva in search of herself and in the clutches of the powerful music industry.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
That hair!
The film doesn't show much interest in Amy's life prior to her stardom. But it does give insights into her Jewish family, which lives in northern London, with never-before-seen footage. Amy's parents separated when she was nine years old. The undated photo reveals her childhood tendency for thoughtfulness.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
Rebellious youth
Amy was notorious for problems in school and changed schools five times. Later, she studied theater in London, but dropped out after only a year. What was more important than school for her? Music: She began writing her own songs as a teenager.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
National breakthrough
Amy Winehouse signed her first record contract at the age of 19. She wrote all the songs on the album herself, except for two. She said at the time that she could only write songs based on her own experiences. Titled 'Frank,' the album climbed the charts in Great Britain and she became a household name. Her trademark eyeliner wasn't quite so dark back then in 2004.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
Looking the part
Amy's international breakthrough came in 2007 when her album 'Back to Black' topped the charts in 14 countries. She started developing her look as a soul singer, with large tattoos and a retro beehive hairstyle. Amy performed all over the world and at the most important festivals. That year, however, her alcohol problem started becoming evident.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
MTV Awards
In November 2007, she won the Artists' Choice Award at the MTV Europe Music Awards and performed at the ceremony in Munich. Amy Winehouse was in the spotlight for eight years and produced only two albums. But 'Back to Black' and 'Rehab' have immortalized her nevertheless.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
Endless scandals
Amy Winehouse won countless Grammys and her songs dominated the international charts. But in fall 2007, she conquered the headlines with news of her drug and alcohol abuse. She's pictured here at a live performance in Dublin.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
Downward spiral
The crash came at the pinnacle of her career. Amy was married to Black Fielder-Civil from 2007 to 2009, and couldn't quite detach herself from him. He allegedly introduced her to hard drugs and apparently prevented her from going to rehab.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
The shadow of success
By the end of 2007, Amy Winehouse had become the best-paid women in show business in the UK. In 2008, she received five Grammys. But due to her drug problems, she was denied a visa to the US and had to make a video appearance instead.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
Support for Mandela
Amy performed in London's Hyde Park at a concert honoring the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela. She was involved in Mandela's AIDS campaign, but when it came to health, her own was suffering. By 2008, she cut back on live shows.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
Pattern of self-destruction
It became increasingly evident that Amy Winehouse was the victim of her own self-destruction. She suffered from bulimia as a result of her drug addiction and became very frail. Nevertheless, she broke worldwide records with her album sales in 2007 and 2008.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
Pearls in court
From January to August 2009, Amy went to a rehab clinic on the Caribbean Island of St. Lucia. Her father was her constant companion. By that time, she hardly made any public appearances. In July 2009, she was called to court in London after being accused of attacking a female fan.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
Court cases
In January 2010, Amy was once again accused of physical aggression - this time against a theater manager. She confessed in a court in the English town of Milton Keynes.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
Botched comeback
In 2011, Amy planned a comeback and gave a successful performace in Brazil in January of that year. There, she premiered five new songs, which she'd planned for her third album. The start of her European tour ended in a disaster: She turned up so drunk to her concert in Belgrade that she could hardly stand up.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
Lost too soon
On July 25, 2011, Amy Winehouse was found dead in her apartment. The 27-year-old talent was lost to chemical addiction and the pressures of the music business.
Amy Winehouse: An intimate look at the iconic soul singer
A father remembers
Amy's father, Mitch Winehouse, erected a memorial to her in Camden Town in fall 2014. He provided Asif Kapadia with much of the footage, but criticized the completed documentary for casting his daughter in a false light.

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Amy Winehouse Autopsy Report

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Amy Winehouse autopsy results did not establish cause of death; more test results are awaited according to the Associated Press. An autopsy was completed at St. Pancras Mortuary Monday afternoon, two days after the singer died in her London apartment. According to a police statement the autopsy “did not establish a formal cause of death and we await the results of further toxicology tests,”

There were no signs of foul play or violence, Scotland Yard officials say Amy’s death “is being treated as unexplained and there have been no arrests in connection with the incident,”.

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