30 Camden Square — where Amy Winehouse died

Amy Winehouse was found dead in her home at 30 Camden Square, London, on the afternoon of July 23, 2011. She was twenty-seven years old. Her bodyguard discovered her in bed at around 3:54 in the afternoon; she had been alive and apparently well when he had checked on her at around 10 the night before. The cause of death was accidental alcohol poisoning — her blood alcohol level was more than five times the legal limit for driving in England. She had been sober for three years and had relapsed.

The house on Camden Square, in the quiet residential streets north of Camden Town, had been her home in the final period of her life — a period of attempted recovery, intermittent relapse, and the slow dismantling of what had been one of the most remarkable careers in British music. Back to Black, released in 2006, had won five Grammy Awards and sold more than thirty million copies. The albums that followed it never came. She had performed her last concert in June 2011, in Belgrade, in a state that suggested she was not well enough to be on stage; she had been booed and had walked off. She died five weeks later.

Camden Square is a quiet, prosperous street of Victorian terraces a few minutes' walk from the commercial chaos of Camden Town. The house at number 30 is a private residence. Fans leave flowers at the gate on the anniversary of her death. She joins a list — Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain — of musicians who died at twenty-seven, a coincidence that has generated more commentary than it probably deserves, but that in her case feels particularly acute given how clearly the music she left behind was unfinished.