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28/05/2008
Winehouse's 'Winning' Game For Cambridge Students
Amy Winehouse has made it into print again - but this time as part of a final-year exam at Cambridge University - rather than in the tabloids.
The singer, 24, usually hitting the headlines for her colourful lifestyle, will have English students ponder the words of her Ivor Novello award winning song 'Love is a Losing Game'.
Students were asked to compare the words of 'Love is a Losing Game' to phrases in ballads written by singers Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday and 16th Century explorer Sir Walter Raleigh.
A Cambridge University spokesman said: "There is nothing unusual in this. If anything it shows that the university is up to date."
However, Nick Seaton of the Campaign for Real Education group accused the university of "dumbing down" their exams saying that examiners were trying to be "trendy" rather than ensuring the exam covered traditional classical literature.
The student magazine reported that students were "surprised" to come across the troubled songstresses lyrics in the exam.
The melancholy song was released as a single last year and is a track on Winehouse's album 'Back To Black'.
A critic has said that the track is "perhaps the most heartbreaking thing she's ever recorded".
Back To Black was nominated for six Grammy Awards and won six. She had won the Ivor Novello Award twice.
Read: Winehouse 'Yes Yes Yes' To Ivor Novello Awards
(DS/JM)
The singer, 24, usually hitting the headlines for her colourful lifestyle, will have English students ponder the words of her Ivor Novello award winning song 'Love is a Losing Game'.
Students were asked to compare the words of 'Love is a Losing Game' to phrases in ballads written by singers Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday and 16th Century explorer Sir Walter Raleigh.
A Cambridge University spokesman said: "There is nothing unusual in this. If anything it shows that the university is up to date."
However, Nick Seaton of the Campaign for Real Education group accused the university of "dumbing down" their exams saying that examiners were trying to be "trendy" rather than ensuring the exam covered traditional classical literature.
The student magazine reported that students were "surprised" to come across the troubled songstresses lyrics in the exam.
The melancholy song was released as a single last year and is a track on Winehouse's album 'Back To Black'.
A critic has said that the track is "perhaps the most heartbreaking thing she's ever recorded".
Back To Black was nominated for six Grammy Awards and won six. She had won the Ivor Novello Award twice.
Read: Winehouse 'Yes Yes Yes' To Ivor Novello Awards
(DS/JM)
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