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Amy Winehouse Funeral Held in London

A private funeral ceremony for the singer was held on Tuesday in London.  Her father said that Winehouse had recently found love and had beaten her drug dependency, though she still struggled with alcohol abuse until her death.

FOX News Radio’s Sabrina Sabbagh has more…

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Winehouse joins an unfortunate list of famed musicians who died at the age of 27.  Others include:

-Rudy Lewis (1964), lead singer of The Drifters (drug overdose)

-Brian Jones (1969), founding member of the Rolling Stones (drowned)

-Jimi Hendrix (1970), guitarist (asphyxiated after mixing sleeping pills and alcohol)

-Janis Joplin (1970), singer/songwriter (heroin overdose)

-Jim Morrison (1971), singer/songwriter for The Doors (heart failure)

-Ron “Pigpen” McKernan (1973), founding member of The Grateful Dead (hemorrhage from alcoholism)

-Kurt Cobain (1994), singer for Nirvana (suicide)




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