SCOTT SIMON, host: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon.</s>Ms. AMY WINEHOUSE (Singer): (Singing) They tried to make me go to rehab. I said no, no, no.</s>SCOTT SIMON, host: Did the folks who turned out for Amy Winehouse's concert in Birmingham, England, this week think they were going to see Julie Andrews?</s>SCOTT SIMON, host: The Brit singer with the climbing beehive hairdo and the lavish eyeliner has had chronic drug problems. Her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who apparently isn't, has been arrested for assault.</s>SCOTT SIMON, host: Earlier this year, Ms. Winehouse had to run off a stage mid-song to regurgitate. She didn't have a clue. At an award ceremony in London, she got drunk and heckled Bono. In music, that's a little like heckling Nelson Mandela.</s>SCOTT SIMON, host: At this week's concert, she showed up late staggered, stumbled and didn't sing very much. Some audience members booed. When the jeering persisted she said to all of those booing: Just wait until my husband gets out of incarceration.</s>SCOTT SIMON, host: Ms. Winehouse walked off. Birmingham male critic Andy Coleman said it was one of the saddest nights of my life. I saw a supremely talented artist reduced to tears, stumbling, and unforgivably swearing at the audience.</s>Ms. AMY WINEHOUSE (Singer): (Singing) But I know it don't come in a shot glass. They're trying to make me go to rehab…</s>SCOTT SIMON, host: Coming up: A rock and roller who's in it for the long haul - Tom Petty.</s>Ms. AMY WINEHOUSE (Singer): (Singing) No, no, no. Yes, I been black, but when I come back. You won't know, know, know. I ain't got the time.
Scott Simon takes a moment to note the latest of singer Amy Winehouse's woes— getting booed off the stage in England.