Amy Winehouse Arrested for Alleged Assault at "Cinderella" Performance

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Amy Winehouse was arrested this past weekend for allegedly assaulting a theater owner during a performance of Cinderella at the Milton Keynes Theatre in Buckinghamshire, England. According to the Times Online, Winehouse was charged under the name Amy Civil — her ex-husband (and reported on-again beau) is Black Fielder-Civil — with a public order offense and common assault after allegedly punching, kicking and pulling the hair of a man who asked the disruptive singer to change seats.

According to the Times Online's report, which reads like something a caricature of Winehouse would do in an SNL skit, the Back to Black singer attended an "all-star" performance (Mickey Rooney was in it) of Cinderella. During one scene, when we guess one character was sneakily approaching another, Winehouse yelled out "He's fucking behind you!" Winehouse also clearly voiced her disapproval of Cinderella's wicked stepsisters by loudly calling them "bitches." At that point, manager Richard Pound asked Winehouse to simply move seats, which led to the alleged assault.

It was a fairly uneventful 2009 for Winehouse, who spent the majority of her time on the island of St. Lucia and out of the spotlight. Other than one failed comeback performance in St. Lucia, it seemed like Winehouse was on the path toward reclaiming her Grammy-winning glory.

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“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Fishbone | 1985

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.

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