Not Fade Away 2006: Back to Black, Amy Winehouse (From HeraldScotland) / Not Fade Away: 60 years, 60 songs , Teddy Jamieson "Somebody said to me recently that listening to my music makes them think, 'This is what it's like to be young and living in London in 2006. I'm so f****** proud that it's achieved that. When I listen to the Shangri-Las, it's 1964 and I'm young in America. When I listen to the Specials, it's 1980 and I'm young in London. That's all I've ever wanted to do." - Amy Winehouse, 2006. Jesus, Amy. How could you? It's hard now to listen to Amy Winehouse's Back in Black album and not feel angry. To feel something has been stolen from us. To remember how fine and fresh that album sounded without feeling the stain of what was to follow blackening your memory. To blame its creator for, well, what exactly? For being sick? For not being strong enough? For dying on us? Loading article content Possibly.

It was difficult to watch Winehouse's decline in the years before her death, as played out in tabloid headlines and "shock" photographs, and not invoke the words of Wendy O'Connor, Kurt Cobain's mother, when he killed himself: "Now he's gone and joined the Stupid Club." But in the end the narratives of our lives are mystery stories to everyone else and even if the plot seems familiar we are all in the end unknowable. Is it fair to judge? The question then is can we divorce the art from the story of the artist. In Winehouse's case, that is particularly difficult. Even when Back to Black came out the Winehouse legend was already in play. As the journalist Caroline O'Sullivan suggested in her 2011 obituary of Winehouse: "A great imponderable was whether Back to Black would have connected so strongly with listeners if Winehouse had not simultaneously been playing out her emotional dramas in public." Back to Black is a break-up album couched in the music of sixties girl groups. At the time it was the latter that appealed to me.

It's Winehouse's account of the end of her relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, a relationship that would be rekindled subsequently. It's dark and funny and bitter and on the title track (only one of a number of stand-out songs on the album) bruised and knowing. Winehouse wasn't the only one tapping into the spirit of the girl groups that year. Brighton indie group The Pipettes, who made some minor polka dot waves, were also drawing from the same well. Listen to their single Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me and what you hear is ramshackle charm, girlish playfulness and almost edible harmonies. But put right next to Winehouse it sounds gauche. Part of that is down to craft of course. And that's as important - though at times we play it down - as the fact that Winehouse was tapping darker currents than three young women high on life. Listen to the way Back to Black is layered, how instruments are adroitly built up and then drop out (a process overseen by the producer Mark Ronson, whose reputation would be sealed by the success of the record). This is a recording that's been thought through on a sonic level.

Of course in retrospect the success of that craft led to every other hit in the last few years adopting a similar retro approach. Sometimes that's worked (Adele and Rumer have both had their moments), sometimes not so much (if I never hear Duffy's Mercy again it will be too soon). As a result these days it can sound overly familiar. But in 2006 it felt new enough. Most of that year, if I'm honest, I was listening to dubstep. My go-to sounds were Burial's debut album, and The World is Gone, the first album by Various, who mixed up electronica and nu folk. Burial's album in particular sounded like the ghost of old jungle and garage tracks, urban, minimalist, compelling. The most interesting British music was being made that year in the margins. But that left the mainstream wide open in 2006. And apart from the ongoing usurpation of the charts by Timbaland (who in 2006 was busy reinventing Nelly Furtado) and Gnarls Barkley's Crazy (originally released the year before), Amy Winehouse was the only game in town.

Her success was one of those moments when craft and commerce just fitted. And so in 2006 Amy Winehouse was everywhere. Would that were still the case. Other Contenders Watch Amy Winehouse & Mark Ronson Make "Back To Black" Okayplayer Posted 2 years ago by Scott Heins 0 comments Watch Amy Winehouse & Mark Ronson Record “Back To Black” In Newly-Uncovered 2006 Studio Clip To watch a classic recording come into being is an amazing thing, and in newly-uncovered studio footage the world can now bear witness to Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson hard at work creating her timeless, bittersweet single “ Back to Black. ” The clip comes from the just-released documentary feature Amy , which chronicles Amy Winehouse’s early life, rise to superstardom and tragic fall into addiction, metal illness and death. In it, we travel back to March 2006 and see Ronson (decked out in a Red Hot Chili Peppers shirt) manning the boards while Amy reads verse lyrics off of a notebook in the recording booth.

Seven months later, when “Back to Black” was released, it became a hit and is today considered Winehouse’s signature song, but there in the harsh lighting of a studio the fledgling tune is shaky–you can watch in real time as its born out of the singer’s stinging heartache. “When you write a song you have to remember how you felt, you have to remember what the weather was like, you have to remember what his neck smelled like,” Winehouse says from off-camera. “You have to remember all of it.” “She would tell me stories about Blake, and this tempestuous extreme relationship,” Ronson says of Amy Winehouse’s relationship with her then-ex husband Blake Fielder-Civil, with whom Winehouse had a deep, drug-fueled, and on-again-off-again bond. “That first day she wrote ‘Back to Black,’ all the lyrics and the melody in two or three hours.” And that’s what’s most important and captivating about the clip, and indeed Winehouse’s whole career: not the relationship issues and the substance abuse, but the towering musical talent that burned so brightly just before it vanished. Watch the full clip below. Did you like this article? Wanna share it?

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (Live Belgrade 18-06-2011 drunk or stoned), RIP 23-07-2011 † - YouTube Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (Live Belgrade 18-06-2011 drunk or stoned), RIP 23-07-2011 † Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Jul 23, 2011 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (Live Belgrade18-06-2011 drunk or stoned) RIP 23-07-2011 † LONDON: Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her flat in north London, police said. She was 27 years old. The Grammy award-winning soul singer struggled with well-documented drink and drug addictions. Her death is being treated as unexplained.

"Police were called by London Ambulance Service to an address in Camden Square shortly before 4:05 pm (local time) today, Saturday 23 July, following reports of a woman found deceased," a police statement said. "On arrival officers found the body of a 27-year-old female who was pronounced dead at the scene. "Enquiries continue into the circumstances of the death. At this early stage it is being treated as unexplained." London Ambulance Service had been called to the flat at 3:54 pm (1454 GMT) and sent two ambulances. Winehouse rocketed to fame after winning five Grammy awards off the back of her 2006 second album "Back to Black" and the hit single "Rehab". In the run-up to her live return, Winehouse spent a week at an addiction treatment clinic in London, reportedly at the suggestion of her father, Mitch, over concerns that she was drinking too much before her shows. But Winehouse pulled out of her European comeback tour following a disastrous opening performance in Serbia on June 18. She was booed at the performance in Belgrade, as she appeared to be too drunk to sing.

Some 20,000 people gathered for the highly-promoted concert at the sixth-century Kalemegdan fortress, but many soon left. During the concert, which lasted about 90 minutes, Winehouse could only mumble some of the lyrics, failing to follow her band. Winehouse left the stage twice, with many fans showing their displeasure despite her band's attempts to calm the crowd. She had also been scheduled to perform in Istanbul, Athens, Bilbao in Spain, Locarno in Switzerland, Italy's Lucca festival, Switzerland's Paleo Festival in Nyon, Nova Jazz and Blues Night in Wiesen, Austria, and Poland's Bydgoszcz Artpop Festival. Facts from Amy's troubled life Early life: - Amy Winehouse was born on Sept. 14 1983 to a Jewish family with a history of jazz musicians. - She was discovered by soul singer Tyler James at the age of 16 and in 2003 her debut album "Frank" was released, to general acclaim. - Her second album "Back to Black" was released in October 2006 and reached the No.1 spot.

Mixed Fortunes: - The album's hit single "Rehab," with the prescient line: "They tried to make me go to rehab. I said 'no, no, no'" has been called the anthem of celebrity trash culture. - In October 2007, she and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil were arrested at a Norwegian hotel for marijuana possession, and soon afterward fans booed her on stage as she slurred her way through her gigs. They divorced in 2009. - Two months later she was photographed wandering barefoot on a London street, wearing only jeans and a bra and looking confused. - Despite being refused entrance to the United States, Winehouse won five Grammy awards in February 2008. - April 2008 saw her with mixed fortunes. She was nominated three times for the Ivor Novello awards in May and joined the elite ranks of music millionaires in the Sunday Times rich list with an estimated fortune of $16.3 million. - In 2010, she pleaded guilty to common assault and public order charges at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court.

Winehouse had assaulted theatre manager Richard Pound after disrupting a performance of "Cinderella" at the Milton Keynes Theatre in central England on Dec. 19. She was arrested four days later. - In 2011, it was announced the on-again, off-again follow-up to Winehouse's seminal "Back to Black" album of 2006 could be on again. Recent sightings of her looking healthier after a trip to Brazil in January 2011 did raise hopes of a new release in 2011. - Also in 2011 she had been slated to sing with Tony Bennett and a laundry list of pop stars on "Tony Bennett: Duets II," the follow-up to his 2006 release "Duets: An American Classic." - For Winehouse, who had released scant material since her 2006 breakout "Back to Black," the duet would have been her first recorded appearance since her cover of Lesley Gore's "It's My Party" for Quincy Jones' compilation "Q: Soul Bossa Nostra" in 2010.

ANA ZOE KIDA, whose band ZEMLJA GRUVA shared the bill, said: "Four British bodyguards simply pushed her to step up on stage. "She did not want to and was making a scene trying to escape them. "It was distressing to see, she obviously needed help." Category Amy Winehouse – Rehab Lyrics | Genius Lyrics Rewind: The Life Of Amy Winehouse About “Rehab” The song that put Amy Winehouse on the map. It was the leading single off of Back To Black and became an international mega hit. Amy’s father said the following about this track: She told [Ronson] about the time at my house after she’d been in hospital when everyone had been going on at her about her drinking. She told [Ronson], “You know they tried to make me go to rehab, and I told them, no, no, no”. Spotting the line, Ronson replied “That’s quite gimmicky. It sounds hooky. You should go back to the studio and we should turn that into a song.” Ronson wanted to give the song a sixties girl-group sound.

Amy was unaccustomed to this style – most of the songs she was writing were based around jazz chords – but it worked and that day she wrote ‘Rehab’ in just three hours. At the 2008 Grammy awards , “Rehab” won the awards for “Song Of The Year”, “Female Pop Vocal Performance” and “Record Of The Year”. Hidden This page is accessible to Verified artists on the song Locked This song has been locked and is considered "done." You need 600 IQ to add annotations to locked songs. "Rehab" Track Info Amy Winehouse: Her 10 Best Tracks - NME NME 2:52 pm - Jul 10, 2015 0shares 0shares She burned fast and bright and sadly only ever had the chance to release two albums. But within 2003’s ‘Frank’ and 2006’s ‘Back To Black’ there was a wealth of genius. Here we celebrate the Camden singer’s 10 greatest tracks.

10 ‘Fuck Me Pumps’ Amy Winehouse is best known for singing about her tumultuous love life, but this highlight from debut album ‘Frank’ shows she could also do social commentary. The deliciously-titled ‘Fuck Me Pumps’ finds her sending up the wannabe footballers’ wives of the early 2000s in a series of cutting couplets. “Don’t be mad at me,” she sings, “‘Cause you’re pushing 30… and your old tricks no longer work.” 9 ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?’ Winehouse covered this Carole King classic for 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason soundtrack, investing it with a typically emotional vocal performance. After her death, Mark Ronson took her devastating original vocal and gave it a new, fuller production with backing from the Dap-Kings. The result, grand and dramatic, is a highlight on her posthumous compilation ‘Lioness’.

8 ‘Tears Dry On Their Own’ Built around a sample from Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s 1967 classic ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’, this mid-tempo gem from Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’ album is a deceptively breezy Motown-influenced pop song. Though the chorus is gently uplifting, her lyrics are filled with lashings of romantic regret. “I’ll be some next man’s other woman soon,” Winehouse sighs on the second verse. 7 ‘In My Bed’ This brassy ballad from the ‘Frank’ album shows off a different side to Amy Winehouse – one that’s not heartbroken at all. “Yours is a familiar face,” she warns an ex-boyfriend that she’s about to hook up with. “But that don’t make your place safe in my bed.” Some nifty scat-singing at the climax completes what is surely one of Winehouse’s most sexy and self-confident songs. 6 ‘You Know I’m No Good’ Like so many songs from ‘Back To Black’, it’s impossible to listen to ‘You Know I’m No Good’ now without projecting your own interpretation of late-period Amy Winehouse onto the lyrics.

So when she sings “I told you I was trouble” on the chorus, it’s incredibly poignant; and when she sings “I cried for you on the kitchen floor” on the second verse, it’s just heartbreaking. 5 ‘Valerie’ Sure, it’s a cover version, and a Mark Ronson cover version at that – technically, Winehouse is simply the featured vocalist. But she doesn’t so much steal ‘Valerie’ from The Zutons as tempt her away effortlessly with a sly bi-curious wink. It’s a brilliant example of Winehouse’s ability to get properly under the skin of a song and a cracking pop hit to boot. 4 ‘Stronger Than Me’ Though Winehouse’s debut single stalled at Number 71 when it was released in October 2003, it later won the singer-songwriter her first Ivor Novello award. Twelve years on, it remains a first-rate example of her fierce songwriting gift – here, a young Amy chides an older lover for failing to ‘man up’ in their relationship over classic jazz-stained melodies and shuffling hip-hop beats.

3 ‘Love Is A Losing Game’ This sublime soul ballad was the final single released in Winehouse’s lifetime, and later won her a third Ivor Novello award. ‘Love Is A Losing Game’ is so classic-sounding, it could almost be mistaken for a cover of an old 1960s tune, if the lyrics weren’t so quintessentially Amy Winehouse. “Though I battle blind / Love is a fate resigned,” is one of many elegantly economical couplets. 2 ‘Back To Black’ When Winehouse died, Mark Ronson described her as his “musical soulmate”, and a song like ‘Back To Black’ makes it difficult to disagree. When Ronson played her the opening piano chords, she apparently went away and wrote this 1960s girl-group tribute in an hour. The result is a truly gut-wrenching break-up song on which Winehouse dissects a toxic relationship with brutal honesty. 1 ‘Rehab’ Its lyrics would become cruelly ironic when Winehouse was eventually forced to check into several different rehab facilities, but her 2006 breakthrough single is still total genius.

It somehow manages to sound utterly timeless and completely modern at the same time as Winehouse namechecks Ray (Charles) and Mr (Donny) Hathaway while defiantly insisting she can sort herself out, thank you very much. Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black in numbers 18 July 2015 Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black in numbers As a documentary on the life and work of Amy Winehouse rides high at the box office, we delve into the anatomy of the star’s game-changing second album Back To Black. Google + Four years after her untimely death in 2011, Amy Winehouse is back in the news following the release of a documentary on her life and career. In recognition of Amy’s huge contribution to the British music scene and culture, we look back at the album that made her a star – 2006’s Back To Black. Amy had already tasted modest success with her debut album Frank – a jazzy, bluesy affair covering topics like unreliable boyfriends, dangerous flirtations, relationship woes and girls Amy wasn’t so keen on.

The critically acclaimed collection peaked at Number 13 in the third week its release in 2004 before beginning its descent, and earned the star two BRIT Award nominations that year, with Stronger Than Me taking an Ivor Novello Award. While there was buzz around Amy, it’s fair to say that few outside those closest to her expected her to blow up in such a big way. But blow up she would, with second album Back To Black. While Amy’s first album had teased darker themes, Back To Black was wall-to-wall heartbreak. Before writing and recording the album, Amy had begun a relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, which would end when he went back to his girlfriend. As we all now know, that separation was temporary, but as Amy put Back To Black together, she didn’t know that – and it shows throughout her songwriting. Let’s look at the singles and a detailed breakdown of Back To Black’s success. October 2006: Rehab The Back To Black campaign began with the release of Rehab, the autobiographical ‘60s pastiche – in the very best sense of the word, of course – that somehow made light of a very real problem.

The story goes that Amy’s previous management company had tried to persuade the star to check into a rehabilitation problem to sort out her issues with alcohol, but she flatly refused. The classic line “If my daddy thinks I’m fine” refers to Amy’s dad Mitch telling his daughter he didn’t think she needed rehab but should give it a try. In an interview, Amy said she took his advice, kind of. The star walked in, said a few hellos, told them she drank because her relationship was over and left. When Amy told producer Mark Ronson this story, he told her this really should be a song, and so it was. Rehab was Amy’s first ever UK Top 40 hit, and a Top 10 too! It peaked at Number 7 and spent 19 consecutive weeks in the Top 40. Rehab is Back To Black’s bestselling track – over 383,000 copies sold. The album followed straight after Rehab, selling over 43,000 copies in its first week on sale and reaching Number 3.

Original peak: 7 MORE: Official Singles Chart Top 100 the week Rehab peaked at Number 7 January 2007: You Know I’m No Good Next up was Amy’s tell-all about her then-failed relationship with Blake, the brilliantly anguished yet resigned admission by Amy that she just couldn’t help herself. “I cry for you on the kitchen floor” was based on Amy’s normal behaviour whenever she broke up with a boyfriend, according to her brother. Thanks in part to the success of the album, which was now nudging 360,000 copies after three months on sale, plus the fact it was New Year when music sales are traditionally on the quiet side, You Know I’m No Good fared less well than Rehab, peaking at Number 18. It didn’t go quietly, though – it was used in lots of ad campaigns and even found its way into Mad Men. You Know I’m No Good also became the theme tune for the high-profile drama series Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, starring former TARDIS-botherer and Number 1 popstar Billie Piper.

Arctic Monkeys performed an inspired cover of the track in their Radio 1 Live Lounge session, and Amy herself would perform the track as a medley with Rehab during her set that was broadcast by satellite at the Grammy Awards where, of course, Amy would take home five trophies. During You Know I’m No Good’s chart run, Back To Black reached Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart for the first time. It would go on to spend six weeks there, on and off. Shortly after You Know I'm No Good's release, Amy won Best British Female at the BRIT Awards: Original peak: 18 ChartFact: The radio version of the single featured a rap from Ghostface Killah. May 2007: Back To Black The time had come for the title track to have its day in the sun and Amy’s trademark image was now fully present – this was the first official video to feature that famous beehive.. Another tale of lost love, Back To Black’s sombre video – which saw Amy attending the funeral of her very own heart – clearly matched the singer’s mood.

Sales of the album had passed 900,000, so you could forgive the record-buying public for not paying the song as much attentions maybe they should have. Averaging around 20,000 sales a week, the album’s success meant Back To Black would peak at Number 25. This right would eventually be wronged upon Amy’s sad death in 2011 – a wave of public affection carried the track into the Top 10 for the first time, peaking at Number 8. Original peak: 25 Sales: 357,000 ChartFact: Back To Black’s B-side was an acoustic cover of the Zutons’ Valerie, which Amy had performed in Jo Whiley’s Live Lounge. Amy was about to have a huge hit with it – her chart peak – featuring on Mark Ronson’s version of the song later in 2007. It would reach Number 2, kept off the top spot by Sugababes’ huge selling About You Now.

MORE: Official Singles Chart Top 100 the week Valerie peaked at Number 2 August 2007: Tears Dry On Their Own By now, Amy had become a tabloid focus but Back To Black’s hits still kept on coming. Tears Dry On Their Own featured a sample of Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell classic Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, which was never a hit for the duo but was covered by Diana Ross in 1970, reaching Number 8. Original peak: 16 Sales: 230,000 ChartFact: Sam Smith has called Amy Winehouse a huge influence, recently performing Tears Dry On Their Own as a mashup at one of his first live shows since recovering from throat surgery. December 2007: Love Is A Losing Game Perhaps the saddest of all Amy’s songs, this heartrending ballad would actually miss the Top 40 on its first release. The final single she would release during her lifetime, Amy performed Love Is A Losing Game at the Mercury Prize in 2007 BRIT Awards in 2008 (above). It would go on to win an Ivor Novello Award – Amy’s third.

December 2007 was boom-time for Back To Black. In the run-up to Christmas, a deluxe release of the album helped it sell 330,000 copies in just two weeks, passing the two-million mark. Original peak: 46 Sales: 118,000 ChartFact: In a bittersweet moment of chart justice, Love Is A Losing Game did eventually make the Top 40, peaking at Number 33 following the star’s passing in 2011. MORE: Amy Winehouse's full chart archive Back To Black in numbers In 2009, Back To Black would become one of the bestselling of all time, when it sailed past the three-million milestone that August. Latest stats show Back To Black has now sold 3.58 million copies in the UK, with 3.3 million of those being physical sales. 2007’s Deluxe Edition– then counted as a separate release – gave Amy her third Number 1 album, meaning that she ties with Kate Bush for the most Number 1 albums by a British female solo artist.

Back To Black is the second biggest selling album of the 21st century, just behind Adele’s 21. Some stats at a glance: Mark Ronson on working with Amy Winehouse on Back To Black in unseen clip from docu-film | Daily Mail Online comments Four years after her death, Amy Winehouse is still at the forefront of her fans' minds. And now, a never-before-seen clip from Asif Kapadia's documentary film entitled Amy - which will be included in the new DVD release - sheds light on the creation of one of her most iconic singles, Back To Black. With her frequent collaborator Mark Ronson, she is heard speaking over old footage from when he created the backing music to the single, which propelled both of them to global super-stardom. Scroll down for video A true talent: In a never-before-seen clip from the Amy docu-film, Winehouse is praised by her frequent collaborator Mark Ronson as he discusses the creation of their mega-hit single, Back To Black The clip largely focuses on Ronson, discussing his first meeting of the then-fledgling star back in early 2006.

'Guy Moot who signed me to EMI said 'Amy Winehouse is in New York for one day, do you want to meet her?',' Mark explained. RELATED ARTICLES Share 80 shares 'I didn't really know anything about her until she showed up. I just asked her what kind of record she wanted to make. And she played me things like The Shangri-Las that I wasn't really familiar with. He went on, full of praise: 'She was instantly just so cool. I liked her in the first five minutes.' Young star: The producer admits he liked Amy as soon as he met her, and that she penned the track in 'two or three hours' Although Winehouse isn't seen in the clip, she is heard speaking over footage of Mark in the studio preparing the track, explaining - from her point of view - their first encounter. She is heard saying: 'When I met him, I played him all this 60s stuff that I'd been listening to, and he was like 'Wow, oh my God', and you could tell he was really inspired by it.' Mark continued: 'I wasn't established yet, so I wanted to impress her.

I said, 'Let me have a night to work on something and come back tomorrow.' 'So she came back the next day and I played her the track, and I looked back and I was like, 'So what do you think?'. She said, 'I have to go make a phone call'.' Making a masterpiece: Mark is seen getting to work in the studio on the backing track for Back To Black, while Amy is heard speaking over the footage, filled with praise for the producer The hitmaker - who went on to work with Amy on her hit 2006 album of the same name - added: 'My manager called me at that time and said, 'How'd it go with the Winehouse girl?' And I was like, 'I dunno, I just played her this track but I dunno if she's crazy about it.' The producer went on to explain how somebody from the music label called to express her feelings over the music, adding that she was 'over the moon'. The singer then is heard praising Ronson: 'Mark is such a cool guy. We worked together so closely.

'He's a music geek yeh, so I'd go in the studio and say I want this and this and this, and he'd be like, 'Cool, come back at two tomorrow and I'll see you then'. He'd have come up with a really cool beat.' While Ronson created and produced the track, the lyrics and the tune were down to Amy, as he revealed: 'That first day [Amy] wrote back to black, all the lyrics and the melody in two or three hours.' Close friendship: After meeting in March 2006 and working together on Amy's iconic Back To Black album, Ronson and Winehouse became firm friends Back To Black went on to become one of her biggest hits and, indeed, one of the greatest tracks of the decade. The heartbreaking song was written about her tempestuous romance with Blake Fielder-Civil, who left her for another woman. Amy, created from heart-wrenching home videos and rare footage and largely told from her point of view, was released this summer, giving an intimate insight into her rise to fame and her love of music.

It also delved into her troubled side, that which battled with drink and drugs and bulimia, along with her highly-publicised relationship with former husband, Fielder-Civil. Strong bond: They have become one of music's most famed twosome, creating other hits together such as Rehab and You Know I'm No Good A lost legend: Amy passed away from alcohol poisoning in 2011 at the age of 27 Winehouse died in 2011 aged just 27 after a long-publicised battle with drink and drugs. Meanwhile, the singer's father Mitch recently spoke out about his daughter's close bond with producer Ronson, their 'deep friendship'. And he told of the 'deep friendship' his daughter had with her long-time friend and collaborator Ronson, who has become a patron of the charity. Mr Winehouse told The Press Association while at recent the annual Amy Winehouse Foundation Gala: 'Mark Ronson and Amy made musical history - and their relationship was a deep and loving relationship. 'I don't know how they ever managed to get any work done because they were just laughing the whole time.' The foundation, created in her name,works to combat drug and alcohol abuse among young people.

AMY is available on DVD, Blu-ray & Digital from Monday November 2, and is available to pre-order. Coming soon: Amy - created by Asif Kapadia - is released on Blu-ray & Digital from Monday November 2, and includes unseen footage Amy Winehouse on Apple Music To preview a song, mouse over the title and click Play. Open iTunes to buy and download music. Biography Much can be said about the late Amy Winehouse, one of the U.K.'s flagship vocalists during the 2000s. The British press and tabloids seemed to focus on her rowdy behavior, heavy consumption of alcohol, and tragic end, but fans and critics alike embraced her rugged charm, brash sense of humor, and distinctively soulful and jazzy vocals. Her platinum-selling breakthrough album, Frank (2003), elicited comparisons ranging from Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan to Macy Gray and Lauryn Hill. Interestingly enough, despite her strong accent and vernacular, one can often hear aspects of each of those singers' vocal repertoires in Winehouse's own voice. Nonetheless, her allure had always been her songwriting -- almost always deeply personal but best known for its profanity and brutal candor.

Born to a taxi-driving father and a pharmacist mother, Winehouse grew up in the Southgate area of northern London. Her upbringing was surrounded by jazz. Many of the uncles on her mother's side were professional jazz musicians, and even her paternal grandmother was romantically involved with British jazz legend Ronnie Scott at one time. While at home, she listened to and absorbed her parents' selection of greats: Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Sinatra among others. However, in her teens, she was drawn to the rebellious spirit of TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, and other American R&B and hip-hop acts of the time. At the age of 16, after she had been expelled from London's Sylvia Young Theatre School, she caught her first break when pop singer Tyler James, a schoolmate and close friend, passed on her demo tape to his A&R representative, who was searching for a jazz vocalist. That opportunity led to her recording contract with Island Records. By the end of 2003, when she was 20 years old, Island had released her debut album, Frank.

With contributions from hip-hop producer/keyboardist Salaam Remi, Winehouse's amalgam of jazz, pop, soul, and hip-hop received rave reviews. The album was nominated for the 2004 Mercury Music Prize as well as two Brit Awards, and its lead single, "Stronger Than Me," won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song. Following Winehouse's debut, the accolades and inquiring interviews appeared concurrently in the press with her tempestuous public life. Several times she showed up to her club or TV performances too drunk to sing an entire set. In 2006, her management company finally suggested that she enter rehab for alcohol abuse, but instead, she dumped the company and transcribed the ordeal into the U.K. Top Ten hit "Rehab," the lead single for her second, critically acclaimed album, Back to Black. Containing evocative productions from Salaam Remi and British DJ/multi-instrumentalist Mark Ronson, the album somewhat abandoned jazz, delving into the sounds of '50s/'60s-era girl group harmonies, rock & roll, and soul. The fanfare over the release was so great that it started to spill over onto U.S.

shores; several rappers and DJs made their own remixes of various songs, not to mention covers by Prince and the Arctic Monkeys. One month after Winehouse won Best Female Artist at the Brit Awards in February 2007, Universal released Back to Black in the U.S. The LP charted higher than any other American debut by a British female recording artist before it, and it remained in the Top Ten for several months, selling a million copies by the end of that summer. Just as in the U.K., she became the talk of the town, landing on the covers of Rolling Stone and Spin magazines. Not long afterward, though, Winehouse canceled her North American tour. Early reports revealed that she was entering rehab for alcohol and drug addiction, but her new management denied the claims, stating it was due to severe exhaustion. Her erratic behavior kept her and her new husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, in the tabloids constantly, on and off stages on both sides of the Atlantic, but in late 2007, American fans were finally given a chance to hear Winehouse's early work, with a slightly abbreviated (two songs removed and one added) version of Frank.

Unfortunately, the next four years were filled with drama, disappointment, and very little music. By 2009, her marriage had ended in divorce, she had repeatedly been arrested on assault charges and/or public order offenses, her struggles with substance abuse and mental health issues tragically played out in the press. Public performances turned into incoherent disasters, the worst of them posted to video-sharing sites for all to see. A track on the Quincy Jones tribute Q: Soul Bossa Nostra appeared in 2010, while a duet with Tony Bennett was announced in early 2011, but a planned follow-up to Back to Black would never make it past the demo stage. Winehouse was found dead in her Camden, London apartment on July 23, 2011. The coroner's report, delivered three months later, revealed that her blood alcohol content had reached a potentially fatal level.

Nearly two months after her death, Winehouse's first posthumous appearance was released on Tony Bennett's Duets II, where she duetted with him on "Body and Soul." Near the end of 2011, her family's foundation announced the release of Lioness: Hidden Treasures, a posthumous compilation featuring recordings from throughout her career (although a few of the arrangements were recorded after her death). A year after Lioness came At the BBC, a deluxe CD/DVD set -- available both as a four-disc box and a smaller two-disc compilation -- rounding up all of her live performances for the British Broadcasting Company. In the summer of 2015, Amy, a documentary by director Asif Kapadia, told her story through photographs, archival footage (in the studio and out), and music. Much of this media had not been available previously. It also contained interviews with friends, family, musical collaborators, and the late singer. That October, a soundtrack was issued that alternated previously released and unreleased Winehouse material with pieces from the film's score. ~ Cyril Cordor Top Albums

Question: Amy Winehouse had a 2006 hit single with ‘Back to ‘what’?
Answer: Black