If I have no other reason to watch the Grammy's, I will most certainly have to tune in to see if Amy Winehouse can manage to pull it together long enough to perform a full song on national television. I understand her appeal, but I wouldn't be surprised if she came out, slugged a bottle of vodka and passed out 30 seconds later given the turbulent nature of current career, which is perhaps why I found this little article on The Huffington Post so entertaining:
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has offered troubled singer Amy Winehouse some free advice on kicking the drug habit.
"She should get her act together," the former junkie said during a round-table interview at the Berlin International Film Festival on Friday to promote Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary "Shine a Light."
The often-addled rocker paused, then added: "Apart from that, I have got nothing to say to the b****."
Winehouse, 24, entered a London rehab clinic last month in hopes of kicking a destructive habit that has overshadowed her promising career.
Stones frontman Mick Jagger, himself no stranger to pharmaceutical experimentation and resulting legal troubles, compared the drug problems of the present generation of Brit rock stars, such as Winehouse and Pete Doherty, to his early days when drugs became an integral part of the pop music scene.
"When we were experimenting with drugs, little was known about the effects," Jagger said. "In our time there were no rehab centers like today. Anyway, I did not know about them."
Keep reading about the round-table interview