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Fact #91714

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Short story:

Multiple Grammy-winning singer Amy Winehouse is found dead at her flat in Camden, London, England, UK. The 2012 song Amy by Green Day will be inspired by Billie Joe Armstrong hearing of Winehouse's death.

Full article:

Billie Joe Armstrong : I didn't know her, I just thought it was a tragic loss. It happened last summer, around this time, I believe, and I just thought her music and her taste in music was so connected to old soul music and the original Motown and Otis Redding and Sam Cooke and things like that. And I think that was a major loss because that was a generation's connection to that, and this was someone who should be here now and I just felt really sad. Oh my god, this huge musical figure that just got lost and, you know, that sucks.
(Source : interview in NME, 2013)