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Who can stop a star from falling apart?

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The singer Amy Winehouse, whose death is so far unexplained, appears to have been driven by drink and drugs, but was also driven by an industry that often demands a lot of potentially vulnerable people.

Marc Marot, former managing director of Island Records, and Alan McGee, founder of Creation Records, discuss whether record companies should do more to sort out troubled artists.


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