Whitney Houston, Superstar of Records, Films, Dies - ABC News

What a beautiful voice silenced. R.I.P Ms Houston.

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Very sad, she was phenomenal. Very young too R.I.P.

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Makes a person really think, 48 is way too young to die.

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I'ev already heard rumors of drug use. Makes it even more sad, but a lesson to young folk (like me?) nonetheless

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It's very sad. She had so much more to offer if it weren't for the booze and drugs.

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crack cocaine. not good for heart. or lungs. or liver. sad.

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I can only imagine that fame and money present all sorts of challenges. As much as I once wanted to be a musical star, there might be something weird about money that came that easily, as it does to a select few. Making it in business or science, engineering - whatever - has a long apprenticeship period so you understand how you got here and how to continue.

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Too bad. The dynamics of "I'm every woman" left her too soon.

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I don't believe it comes as easily as you see it. It isn't like I woke up this morning, took a shower and sang a song and people bought my records. Sure, it looks easy but what doesn't? I'd say carpentry, metal work, landscaping, etc, etc all look easy till you pick up the tools and start hacking away at it. Listening to me describe pouring cement, you and me could do a 2 car driveway 50 feet long in an afternoon with a few 2X4 forms and a trowel but it probably isn't going to be that easy without a seasoned crew. When I played the violin, there was hours of practice involved and lessons on top of that not to mention the learning of misc stuff. All this was just taking 2 hrs of class a week and not for commercial purposes. When performance is demanded of you day in and day out from every direction, well, I don't think it comes that easy. Sure, talent speeds it up. Perhaps with my absolute pitch ability, I can get it faster than you can but again, when it is commercial, they demand more and they get more and you best put out more. In short, I think while the time it took to achieve what she did (although I don't like her music) was shorter, I think she put in much more than we know on a daily basis when it comes to effort.

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Whitney was one of a long line of entertainers whose light burnt brightly but short. There are many temptations in the world of entertainment and some succumb to them and reap the results. 48 is too young to check out.

Sounds like she was either ill, or suffering the effects of drug / alcohol intoxication.

Quoted from MSNBC:

"Houston had been at rehearsals for Clive Davis' pre-Grammy gala and concert Thursday, coaching singers Brandy and Monica, according to a person who was at the event but was not authorized to speak publicly about it. The person said Houston looked disheveled, was sweating profusely and liquor and cigarettes could be smelled on her breath."

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Crack is whack
clip of Whitney Houston on Diane Sawyer - YouTube

Cocaine is a helluva' drug
Rick James "Cocaine is a hell of a drug" - YouTube

Pure speculation, but she could have died from alcohol withdrawal. One of the few drugs you can die from w.d.'s....

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With addiction and substance abuse, it doesn't matter if you're rich, famous, talented or not.

Perhaps so, but though this is hearsay, I believe otherwise.

One of my best friends in the Mercedes owning world lives in North Hollywood, and to until about 15 years ago, was in the Hollywood music business (in the accounting end of it) and told me some amazing things he'd observed first hand on a routine basis.

On a typical weekend, for instance, some musician who was a rock star, would hold a weekend house party; and consumption of $15,000 to $20,000 worth of cocaine by him and the guests was so normal and accepted it meant nothing.

Hangers-on and drug dillers would come around all the time and ask "What can I DO for you"?; and "Is there anything I can DO for you?" along with the usual coterie of people that would say "Oh I love your work!" and "Can I have your autograph?" (I have actually eaten at restaurants on Ventura Blvd. such as "Poquito Mas" that have signs on the door saying "No asking for autographs" and "No photos please").

He told me that Tom Petty and Rod Stewart were total jerks in person; and described a huge fistfight in a bar in North Hollywood that he saw in a British pub one new years when Jeff Lynne (Electic Light Orchestra) got caught with some other girl by his OWN girlfriend that had been told he was just going there to hang out with some other musicians. It was an epic new year's day brawl.

The Rolls Royce, Land Rover, Mercedes Benz, Porsche Maserati, Lamborghini and BMW car dealers around Hollywood, Encino, Beverly Hills and Santa Monica and the Westside are instructed to ALWAYS have their sales force be super polite and deferential to sloppily dressed and unshaven or joking customers, because often as not they are Movie directors, producers, rock musicians and such, who come in on a whim, ready to buy a brand new car for cash right then on the spot. And often DO.

Crazy place, the entertainment world down there in LA.

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