Artistic licence: Star-a-day mentality is killing modern music

‘‘The new Amy Winehouse.” With apologies to Duffy, Adele and all the other pretty, talented and anodyne musicians vying for the Winehouse throne in 2008, if I have to hear or read that phrase one more time this month, I may scream.

As far as I’m concerned, dodgy husband and heroin use aside, there is no reason for us to be done with the old Amy Winehouse - considering, as when we say ...