Winehouse promoted the release of "Back to Black" with headline performances in late 2006, including a Little Noise Sessions charity concert at the Union Chapel in Islington, London. On 31 December 2006, Winehouse appeared on Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny and performed a cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" along with Paul Weller and Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. She also performed Toots and the Maytals' "Monkey Man". At his request, actor Bruce Willis introduced Winehouse before her performance of "Rehab" at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards in Universal City, California, on 3 June 2007. During the summer of 2007, she performed at various festivals, including Glastonbury Festival, Lollapalooza in Chicago, Belgium's Rock Werchter, and Virgin Festival in Baltimore.
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Back to Black
Back to Black | Touring
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Back to Black is the second and final studio album by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse, released on 27 October 2006 by Island Records. Winehouse predominantly based the album on her tumultuous relationship with then-ex-boyfriend and future husband Blake Fielder-Civil, who temporarily left her to pursue his previous ex-girlfriend. Their short-lived separation spurred her to create an album that explores themes of guilt, grief, infidelity and heartbreak in a relationship. Influenced by the pop and soul music of 1960s girl groups, Winehouse collaborated with producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson, along with Sharon Jones' band The Dap-Kings, to assist her on capturing the sounds from that time period while blending them with contemporary R&B and neo-soul music.
Back to Black | Introduction
A statement issued by concert promoter Live Nation blamed "the rigours involved in touring and the intense emotional strain that Amy has been under in recent weeks" for the decision. Mitch Winehouse wrote about her nervousness before public performances in his 2012 book, "Amy, My Daughter".
Back to Black | Touring
"Back to Black" is a song by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse from her second and final studio album of the same name (2006). It was released by Island Records on 30 April 2007 as the album's third single. The song was written by Winehouse and Mark Ronson, and produced by the latter. "Back to Black" was inspired by Winehouse's relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, who had left her for an ex-girlfriend. "Back to Black" received universal acclaim by music critics, who generally praised its throwback sound to girl groups from the 1960s. It was included on several compiled year and decade-end lists of the best in music and was further considered to be one of Winehouse's signature songs.
Back to Black (song) | Introduction
Most of the songs on "Back to Black" were solely written by Winehouse, as her primary focus of the album's sound shifted more towards the style of the girl groups from the 1950s and 1960s. Winehouse worked with New York singer Sharon Jones's longtime band, the Dap-Kings, to back her up in the studio and on tour. Her father, Mitch Winehouse, relates in his memoir, "Amy, My Daughter", how fascinating watching her process was, especially with witnessing her perfectionism in the studio. She would also put out what she had sung on a CD and play it in his taxi outside to know how most people would hear her music.
Back to Black | Recording and production
"Tears Dry on Their Own," "Love Is a Losing Game" were also released as singles, but failed to achieve the same level of success. A deluxe edition of "Back to Black" was also released on 5 November 2007 in the UK. The bonus disc features B-sides, rare, and live tracks, as well as "Valerie." Winehouse's debut DVD "" was released the same day in the UK and 13 November in the US. It includes a live set recorded at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire and a 50-minute documentary charting the singer's career over the previous four years. "Frank" was released in the United States on 20 November 2007 to positive reviews.
Amy Winehouse | 2006–2008: "Back to Black" and international success
These were some of the first new songs played on the radio after the release of "Pumps" and both were slated to appear on her second album. The 11-track album, completed in five months, was produced entirely by Salaam Remi and Ronson, with the production credits being split between them. Ronson said in a 2010 interview that he liked working with Winehouse because she was blunt when she did not like his work. She in turn thought that when they first met, he was a sound engineer and that she was expecting an older man with a beard. Promotion of "Back to Black" soon began and, in early October 2006 Winehouse's official website was relaunched with a new layout and clips of previously unreleased songs.
Amy Winehouse | 2006–2008: "Back to Black" and international success
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black is a 2018 documentary film about English singer Amy Winehouse and the making of her second studio album, "Back to Black" (2006). It contains new interviews, as well as archive footage. Directed by Jeremy Marre, the film was first broadcast on BBC Four on 14 September 2018 (on what would have been Winehouse's 35th birthday) as part of the "Classic Albums" documentary series. It was released on DVD, Blu-ray and digitally on 2 November 2018 by Eagle Vision. The film is accompanied by "An Intimate Evening in London", featuring footage of a performance by Winehouse at Riverside Studios in London in February 2008.
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black | Introduction
"Back to Black" was released in the UK on 30 October 2006. It went to number one on the UK Albums Chart for two weeks in January 2007, dropping then climbing back for several weeks in February. In the US, it entered at number seven on the "Billboard" 200. It was the best-selling album in the UK of 2007, selling 1.85million copies over the course of the year. The first single released from the album was the Ronson-produced "Rehab." The song reached the top ten in the UK and the US. "Time" magazine named "Rehab" the Best Song of 2007.
Amy Winehouse | 2006–2008: "Back to Black" and international success
Between 2005 and 2006, she recorded the album's songs with Remi at Instrumental Zoo Studios in Miami and then with Ronson and the Dap-Kings at Chung King Studios and Daptone Records in New York. Tom Elmhirst mixed the album at Metropolis Studios in London. "Back to Black" was acclaimed by music critics, who praised Winehouse's songwriting and emotive singing style as well as Remi and Ronson's production. The album spawned five singles: "Rehab", "You Know I'm No Good", "Back to Black", "Tears Dry on Their Own" and "Love Is a Losing Game". It has also been cited as being a key influence to the widespread popularity of British soul throughout the late 2000s, paving the musical landscape for artists such as Adele, Duffy, and Estelle.
Back to Black | Introduction
However, none of the four singles released from the album managed to reach the top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. Her second album, "Back to Black", was released in October 2006, reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart and number seven on the "Billboard" 200 in the United States. The album was certified 11-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and was the best-selling album of 2007 in the UK. The first single from the album, "Rehab", peaked at number seven in the UK and at number nine on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in the US. The album's second single, "You Know I'm No Good", reached number 18 in the UK.
Amy Winehouse discography | Introduction
Winehouse promoted the release of "Back to Black" with headline performances in late 2006, including a Little Noise Sessions charity concert at the Union Chapel in Islington, London. On 31 December 2006, Winehouse appeared on Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny and performed a cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" along with Paul Weller and Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. She also performed Toots and the Maytals' "Monkey Man". At his request, actor Bruce Willis introduced Winehouse before her performance of "Rehab" at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards in Universal City, California, on 3 June 2007. During the summer of 2007, she performed at various festivals, including Glastonbury Festival and Lollapalooza in Chicago.
Amy Winehouse | 2006–2008: "Back to Black" and international success
Other singles included the title track, which peaked at number eight in the UK, "Tears Dry on Their Own" and "Love Is a Losing Game". A deluxe edition of the album was released in the UK in November 2007 and also topped the UK chart. By October 2018, "Back to Black" had sold 3.93 million copies, becoming the 13th best-selling album in the UK of all time. Winehouse collaborated with other artists, as a vocalist on the song "Valerie" on Mark Ronson's solo album, "Version". The song peaked at number two in the UK. She also collaborated with former Sugababes member Mutya Buena on "B Boy Baby", the final single from Buena's debut solo album, "Real Girl".
Amy Winehouse discography | Introduction
Writer Josh Tyrangiel praised Winehouse for her confidence, saying, "What she is is mouthy, funny, sultry, and quite possibly crazy" and "It's impossible not to be seduced by her originality. Combine it with production by Mark Ronson that references four decades worth of soul music without once ripping it off, and you've got the best song of 2007." The album's second single and lead single in the US, "You Know I'm No Good," was released in January 2007 with a remix featuring rap vocals by Ghostface Killah. It ultimately reached number 18 on the UK singles chart. The title track, "Back to Black," was released in the UK in April 2007 and peaked at number 25, but was more successful across mainland Europe.
Amy Winehouse | 2006–2008: "Back to Black" and international success
Winehouse promoted the release of "Back to Black" with headline performances in late 2006, including a Little Noise Sessions charity concert at the Union Chapel in Islington, London. On 31 December 2006, Winehouse appeared on Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny and performed a cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" along with Paul Weller and Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. She also performed Toots and the Maytals' "Monkey Man". At his request, actor Bruce Willis introduced Winehouse before her performance of "Rehab" at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards in Universal City, California, on 3 June 2007. During the summer of 2007, she performed at various festivals, including Glastonbury Festival, Lollapalooza in Chicago, Belgium's Rock Werchter, and Virgin Festival in Baltimore.
Back to Black | Touring
After signing with Island Records in 2002, Winehouse released her debut album, "Frank", on 20 October 2003. She dedicated the album to her ex-boyfriend, Chris Taylor, as she gradually lost interest in him. Produced mainly by Salaam Remi, many songs were influenced by jazz, and apart from two cover versions, every song was co-written by Winehouse. The album received positive reviews, with compliments over the "cool, critical gaze" in its lyrics, while her vocals drew comparisons to Sarah Vaughan, Macy Gray and others. The album reached number 13 on the UK Albums Chart at the time of its release, and was eventually certified triple Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
Back to Black | Background
Amy Winehouse was an English singer and songwriter. She was best known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres, including soul, jazz, rock and roll and R&B. Winehouse released two albums of original music: "Frank" (2003) and "Back to Black" (2006). "Frank" was originally released by Island Records in October 2003 in the United Kingdom and in November 2007 in the United States. Because of the success of her second album, "Frank" was later re-issued in the UK in May 2008 and in the US in June 2008. "Back to Black" was issued under Island Records in Europe, Asia, South America and Australia, and under Universal Republic in the US.
List of awards and nominations received by Amy Winehouse | Introduction
In 2005, Winehouse returned to Miami (as she went there previously to produce her debut album) to record five songs at Salaam Remi's Instrumental Zoo Studios: "Tears Dry on Their Own", "Some Unholy War", "Me & Mr Jones", "Just Friends", and "Addicted". The recording process of Remi's album portion was "intimate", consisting of Winehouse singing while on guitar and Remi adding the other instruments played mostly by himself (chiefly played the piano and the main/bass guitars on the album), or by instrumentalist Vincent Henry (primarily played the saxophone, the flute, and the clarinet). Winehouse and producer Mark Ronson both shared a publishing company, which encouraged a meeting between the two.
Back to Black | Recording and production
In 2018, a documentary film based on Winehouse's album "Back to Black", "Amy Winehouse – Back to Black" was released. It contains new interviews as well as archival footage. It was made by Eagle Vision and produced by Gil Cang. Released on DVD on 2 November 2018, the film features interviews by producers Ronson & Remi, who worked half and half on the album, along with the Dap Kings, Remi's music team, Ronnie Spector from the Ronettes and close ones to Winehouse, including Nick Shymansky, Juliette Ashby and Dionne Bromfield. The film is accompanied by "An Intimate Evening in London," footage of a show Winehouse gave at Riverside Studios, London in 2008.
Amy Winehouse | Posthumous retrospectives
In contrast to her jazz-influenced former album, Winehouse's focus shifted to the girl groups of the 1950s and 1960s. Winehouse hired New York singer Sharon Jones's longtime band, the Dap-Kings, to back her up in the studio and on tour. Mitch Winehouse relates in "Amy, My Daughter" how fascinating watching her process was: her perfectionism in the studio and how she would put what she had sung on a CD and play it in his taxi outside to know how most people would hear her music. In May 2006, Winehouse's demo tracks such as "You Know I'm No Good" and "Rehab" appeared on Mark Ronson's New York radio show on East Village Radio.
Amy Winehouse | 2006–2008: "Back to Black" and international success
After the release of "Back to Black," record companies sought out female artists with a similar sound and fearless and experimental female musicians in general. Adele and Duffy were the second wave of artists with a sound similar to Winehouse's. A third wave of female musicians that has emerged since the album was released are led by V V Brown, Florence and the Machine, La Roux and Little Boots. In March 2011, the New York "Daily News" ran an article attributing the continuing wave of British female artists that have been successful in the United States to Winehouse and her absence.
Amy Winehouse | Influence
The documentary film is accompanied by "An Intimate Evening in London", consisting of previously unseen footage of a performance by Winehouse at Riverside Studios in London in February 2008. It was a private show given for family, friends and record company executives on the night she won five Grammy Awards.
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black | "An Intimate Evening in London"
The album's first song and single, "Rehab", is an upbeat, contemporary, and autobiographical song about Winehouse's past refusal to attend an alcohol rehabilitation centre after a conversation she had with her father, Mitch Winehouse. Previously, her management team prodded her to go to one. The song also contains "spring reverbs" on the lead vocals and drums to obtain a "retro feel", live "handclaps", timpanis, bells, and "slight vintage effects" on the piano and bass. Winehouse mentions "Ray" and "Mr. Hathaway", in reference to Ray Charles and Donny Hathaway. However, for some time during live performances, she replaced "Ray" with "Blake", referring to her ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who served time in prison for charges relating to grievous bodily harm.
Back to Black | Songs 1–6
In May of that year, Winehouse's demo tracks such as "You Know I'm No Good" and "Rehab" appeared on Mark Ronson's New York radio show on East Village Radio. These were some of the first new songs played on the radio after the release of "Pumps" and both were slated to appear on her second album. The 11-track album, completed in five months, was produced entirely by Remi and Ronson, with the production credits being split between them.
Back to Black | Recording and production
On 31 July 2011, following her death, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart at 8, also giving the song a new peak position and second top ten hit in UK. As of September 2014, "Back to Black" has sold 340.000 copies in the UK and is Winehouse's third best-selling single in that country. In America, due to strong digital sales of the single over the years, "Back to Black" was certified platinum for over one million digital sales by the RIAA in January 2015.
Back to Black (song) | Commercial performance
The album debuted at number 61 on the Billboard 200 chart. In addition to her own album, she collaborated with other artists on singles. Winehouse was a vocalist on the song "Valerie" on Ronson's solo album "Version". The song peaked at number two in the UK, upon its October single release. "Valerie" was nominated for a 2008 Brit Award for "Best British Single." Her work with ex-Sugababe Mutya Buena, "B Boy Baby," was released on 17 December 2007. It served as the fourth single from Buena's debut album, "Real Girl". Winehouse was also in talks of working with Missy Elliott for her album "Block Party".
Amy Winehouse | 2006–2008: "Back to Black" and international success
All tracks written by Amy Winehouse, except where noted Notes Sample credits
Back to Black | Track listing
Winehouse herself, for the album, was presented the Grammy for Best New Artist, while Ronson earned the 2008 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.
Back to Black | Accolades
Around the same year, she went through a period of drinking, heavy drug use, and weight loss. People who saw her during the end of that year and early 2006 reported a rebound that coincided with the writing of "Back to Black". Her family believes that the mid-2006 death of her grandmother, who was a stabilising influence, set her off into addiction. Fielder-Civil then left Winehouse to revert to his previous girlfriend, leaving her in a "devastated" mood. In an interview with "The Sun" on the day of the album's release, Winehouse explained that she "shouldn't have been in a relationship with him because he was already involved with someone else a bit too close to home".
Back to Black | Background
It was here that Amy Winehouse came to spend a month in 2006 to work on tracks for what became the "Back to Black" album, which features the O'Duffy/Winehouse song "Wake up Alone".
Paul Staveley O'Duffy | Hiatus and recovery
"Love Is a Losing Game" is a song by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse from her second and final studio album "Back to Black" (2006). It was chosen as the fifth and final single from "Back to Black" and was also the final single released in Winehouse's lifetime. The single was released on 10 December 2007 in the United Kingdom. The song was added to BBC Radio 1's playlist on 7 November 2007.
Love Is a Losing Game | Introduction
So she played me some of those records ... I told her that I had nothing to play her right now but if she [lets] me work on something overnight she could come back tomorrow. So I came up with this little piano riff, which became the verse chords to 'Back to Black.' Behind it I just put a kick drum and a tambourine and tons of reverb." Winehouse's father later recalled the formulation of "Rehab" in his memoir: "One day [Ronson and Winehouse] decided to take a quick stroll around the neighborhood because Amy wanted to buy [her then-boyfriend] Alex Clare a present ...
Back to Black | Recording and production
During their break, she would write the bulk of the album on the state of her "relationship at the time with Blake [Fielder-Civil]" through themes of "grief, guilt, and heartache". Winehouse dated chef-musician Alex Clare briefly in 2006, and would later return to and marry Fielder-Civil in the following year.
Back to Black | Background
"Frank" was a critical success in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. The song "Stronger Than Me" won her the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. Winehouse released her follow-up album, "Back to Black", in 2006, which went on to become an international success and one of the best-selling albums in UK history. At the 2007 Brit Awards it was nominated for British Album of the Year, and she received the award for British Female Solo Artist. The song "Rehab" won her a second Ivor Novello Award.
Amy Winehouse | Introduction
The first act on her Lioness Records is Winehouse's 13-year-old goddaughter, Dionne Bromfield. Her first album, featuring covers of classic soul records, was released on 12 October 2009. Winehouse is the backing singer on several tracks on the album and she performed backing vocals for Bromfield on the BBC's television programme "Strictly Come Dancing" on 10 October. Winehouse and her family are the subject of a 2009 documentary shot by Daphne Barak titled "Saving Amy". Winehouse entered into a joint venture in 2009 with EMI to launch a range of wrapping paper and gift cards containing song lyrics from her album "Back to Black".
Amy Winehouse | Other ventures
At the 2007 Brit Awards, Winehouse won British Female Solo Artist, and "Back to Black" was nominated for MasterCard British Album. In July 2007, the album was shortlisted for the 2007 Mercury Prize, but lost out to Klaxons' "Myths of the Near Future". This was the second time that Winehouse was nominated for the Mercury Prize; her debut album "Frank" was shortlisted in 2004. "Back to Black" won numerous awards at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards on 10 February 2008, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Rehab"; while the album received nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album, winning the latter.
Back to Black | Accolades
"Back to Black" was released in the United States in March 2007, with a remix of "You Know I'm No Good" featuring rap vocals by Ghostface Killah as its lead single. A third UK single, "Back to Black", was released on 30 April 2007. Having previously peaked at number 25 on the UK chart, the track climbed to number eight in late July 2011, following Winehouse's death. Two further singles were released from the album: "Tears Dry on Their Own" was released on 13 August 2007, and peaked at number 16 in the UK, while "Love Is a Losing Game", released on 10 December 2007, reached number 33.
Back to Black | Release and promotion
Alexis Petridis of "The Guardian" further explains, "Over a solitary electric guitar and subtle drums, [Winehouse's] voice takes centre stage to [set] out her resigned viewpoint that, as with gambling, you can only love for so long before ending up the loser".
Back to Black | Songs 1–6
The single peaked at number eight on the UK Singles Chart in the United Kingdom and is Winehouse's third best-selling single in that country. Many cover versions by various artists were recorded for the song; most notably, Beyoncé and André 3000 covered it for the of the 2013 film adaptation of the novel "The Great Gatsby" (1925). A documentary film based on the life and death of Winehouse, "Amy" (2015) features a videoed tape of Winehouse recording the song with Mark Ronson, in March 2006 and an a cappella melody was featured on the film's soundtrack.
Back to Black (song) | Introduction
"Back to Black" was released on 27 October 2006. A deluxe edition of "Back to Black" was released in mainland Europe in November 2007 and in the United Kingdom on 3 December 2007. The reissue features the original studio album remastered as well as a bonus disc containing various B-sides and live tracks, including Winehouse's solo rendition of the single "Valerie" on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge; the song was originally available in studio form on Ronson's "Version" album. Winehouse's debut DVD "" was released in the UK on 5 November and in the US on 13 November. It includes a live set recorded at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire and a 50-minute documentary chronicling the singer's career over the previous four years.
Back to Black | Release and promotion
Usually in live performances, she would start with the slower version of the song before proceeding into a more uptempo version. "He Can Only Hold Her" interpolates "(My Girl) She's a Fox" by brothers Robert and Richard Poindexter. Joshua Klein of "Pitchfork" describes Winehouse in the song as "an objective observer, [and] able to see her personal issues for what they are". The chorus goes, "So he tries to pacify her, 'cause what's inside her never dies". Klein assumes that from "this new vantage [,] Winehouse has moved on". John Harrison, the original demo producer of "He Can Only Hold Her", explained at a BIMM London masterclass that he was "introduced to '(My Girl) She's a Fox' by his sister".
Back to Black | Songs 7–11
"Back to Black" was written by Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson with the latter also serving as its producer. The track was recorded in three studios – Chung King Studios and Daptone Studios located in New York City and Metropolis Studios in London. "Back to Black" was inspired by her relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil. He had left Winehouse for an ex-girlfriend, leaving her going to "black," which to the listener may appear to refer to drinking and depression. However, the "black" to which she refers is more likely heroin, to which she was openly addicted; "black" is the second most common street name for heroin in Los Angeles.
Back to Black (song) | Background and composition
She apologised to the crowd for being "bored" and ended the set in the middle of a song. During her stay in St. Lucia, however, she worked on new music with Salaam Remi. On 23 August that year Winehouse sang with the Specials at the V Festival, on their songs "You're Wondering Now" and "Ghost Town". Island claimed that a new album would be due for release in 2010. Island co-president Darcus Beese said, "I've heard a couple of song demos that have absolutely floored me." In July 2010, Winehouse was quoted as saying her next album would be released no later than January 2011, saying "It's going to be very much the same as my second album, where there's a lot of jukebox stuff and songs that are...
Amy Winehouse | 2009–2011: Final projects before death
The eponymous track "Back to Black" explores elements of old-school soul music. The song's sound and beat have been described as similar to vintage girl groups from the 1960s. Its production was noted for its Wall of Sound. Winehouse expresses feelings of hurt and bitterness for a boyfriend who has left her; however, throughout the lyrics she "remains strong" exemplified in the opening lines, "He left no time to regret, Kept his wet, With his same old safe bet, Me and my head high, And my tears dry, Get on without my guy". The song was inspired by her relationship with Fielder-Civil, who had left Winehouse for an ex-girlfriend.
Back to Black | Songs 1–6
In September 2018, a documentary film based on "Back to Black", titled "", was released. It contains new interviews, as well as archival footage. It was made by Eagle Vision, produced by Gil Cang, and released on DVD on 2 November 2018. The film features interviews by producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, who worked half and half on the album, along with the Dap-Kings, Remi's music team, singer from The Ronettes, Ronnie Spector and close friends of Winehouse, including Nick Shymansky, Juliette Ashby and Dionne Bromfield. The film is accompanied by "An Intimate Evening in London", footage of a show Winehouse gave at Riverside Studios in London in 2008.
Back to Black | Documentary
"Back to Black" received widespread acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 81, based on 26 reviews. AllMusic writer John Bush lauded Winehouse's musical transition from her debut record: "All the best parts of her musical character emerge intact, and actually, are all the better for the transformation from jazz vocalist to soul siren." Dorian Lynskey of "The Guardian" called "Back to Black" "a 21st-century soul classic". Sal Cinquemani of "Slant Magazine" said that Winehouse and her producers are "expert mood-setters or crafty reconstructionists".
Back to Black | Critical reception
"Back to Black" debuted at number seven on the "Billboard" 200 in the United States with first-week sales of 51,000 copies, becoming the highest debut entry for an album by a British female solo artist at the time—a record that would be broken by Joss Stone's "Introducing Joss Stone", which debuted at number two on the "Billboard" 200 the following week. Following Winehouse's multiple wins at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, the album jumped from number 24 to a new peak of number two on the "Billboard" 200 chart issue dated 1 March 2008 with sales of 115,000 copies. The album was certified double-Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on 12 March 2008, and has since sold nearly three million copies in the US.
Back to Black | Commercial performance
Around the same time, she rediscovered the 1960s music she loved as a girl, stating in a 2007 "Rolling Stone" interview: "When I fell in love with Blake, there was Sixties music around us a lot." In 2005, the couple spent a lot of time in a local Camden bar, and during their time there, Winehouse would listen to blues, , and Motown artists, explaining that "it was [her] local" and "spent a lot of time there [...] playing pool and listening to jukebox music." The music heard in the bar appealed to Winehouse when she was writing songs for her second album.
Back to Black | Background
In 2004, Winehouse was nominated for British Female Solo Artist and British Urban Act at the Brit Awards, while "Frank" made the shortlist for the Mercury Prize. That same year, the album's first single, "Stronger Than Me", earned Winehouse and Remi an Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song. In a 2004 interview with "The Observer", Winehouse expressed dissatisfaction with the album, stating that "some things on [the] album [made her] go to a little place that's fucking bitter". She further notes that the marketing was "fucked", the promotion was "terrible", and everything was "a shambles". In 2003, Winehouse dated Blake Fielder-Civil, who was an assistant on music video sets.
Back to Black | Background
The film narrative is focused on the life of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, who was found dead on 23 July 2011 from alcohol poisoning, at the age of 27 at her home in Camden, North London. The film starts with a 1998 home movie depicting a 14-year-old Winehouse singing along with her long-time friend, Juliette Ashby, at the birthday party of their mutual friend, Lauren Gilbert, at a home in Southgate, London. The rest of the documentary shows the songwriter's life, in a chronological order from her early childhood, to her music career, which attained commercial success through her debut album, "Frank" (2003), and second, final album "Back to Black" (2006), to her troubled relationships, self-harm, bulimia, the controversial media attention, and her downfall with her drug and alcohol addiction, all until her death in 2011.
Amy (2015 film) | Synopsis
"The New Yorker"s Sasha Frere-Jones praised Winehouse's "mush-mouthed approach [on the album]". Nathan Rabin, writing in "The A.V. Club", was impressed by "the incongruity between Winehouse's trifling lyrical concerns and "Back To Black"s wall-of-sound richness". "Entertainment Weekly"s Will Hermes felt that her "smartass" lyrics "raise [the album] into the realm of true, of-the-minute originality". Douglas Wolk, writing for "Blender", said that the album "sounds fantastic—partly because the production nails sample-ready '60s soul right down to the drum sound [...] Winehouse is one hell of an impressive singer, especially when she's not copping other people's phrasing". Some reviewers were more critical of the album.
Back to Black | Critical reception
Salaam Remi had already created some material with Winehouse as part of the project. According to "The Times", Universal Music pressed her for new material in 2008, but as of 2 September that year she had not been near a recording studio. In late October, Winehouse's spokesman was quoted as saying that Winehouse had not been given a deadline to complete her third album, for which she was learning to play drums. In May 2009, Winehouse returned to performing at a jazz festival in St. Lucia amid torrential downpours and technical difficulties. During her set, it was reported she was unsteady on her feet and had trouble remembering lyrics.
Amy Winehouse | 2009–2011: Final projects before death
In May 2015, the first teaser clip from the film was released. The short clip features a candid moment of Winehouse messing around with the camera and singing, while Nick Shymanksy, a member of her management team, recalls the beginning of her songwriting process; the video concludes with an unheard track Winehouse had recorded, "Detachment", which was arranged to be on her album "Back To Black" (2006). On 18 May 2015, the official theatrical poster was released on the film's Twitter page. On 20 May 2015, the first official full-length trailer was released by Altitude Film. The trailer features the song "Back To Black", which was released in 2007.
Amy (2015 film) | Marketing
Winehouse's battles with substance abuse were the subject of much media attention. In 2005, she went through a period of drinking, heavy drug use, and weight loss. People who saw her during the end of that year and early 2006 reported a rebound that coincided with the writing of "Back to Black". Her family believes that the mid-2006 death of her grandmother, who was a stabilising influence, set her off into addiction. In August 2007, Winehouse cancelled a number of shows in the UK and Europe, citing exhaustion and ill health. She was hospitalised during this period for what was reported as an overdose of heroin, ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine and alcohol.
Amy Winehouse | Substance abuse and mental illness
"Back to Black" explores elements of old school soul music. The song's sound and beat have been described as similar to vintage girl groups from the 1960s. Its production was noted for its Wall of Sound. Winehouse expresses feelings of hurt and bitterness for a boyfriend who has left her; however, throughout the lyrics she "remains strong" exemplified in the opening lines, "He left no time to regret, Kept his dick wet, With his same old safe bet, Me and my head high, And my tears dry, Get on without my guy". The song's lyrical content consists of a sad goodbye to a relationship with the lyrics being frank.
Back to Black (song) | Background and composition
Several of Winehouse' singles have charted worldwide, including "Rehab", "You Know I'm No Good", "Back to Black", "Tears Dry on Their Own", and "Valerie". Winehouse's debut album earned several awards and recognitions, including an Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song ("Stronger Than Me"), a BRIT Award nomination for Best Female Solo Artist, and an inclusion in Robert Dimery's 2006 book, "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". "Back to Black" produced numerous nominations, including two from the BRIT Awards (Best Female Solo Artist and Best British Album), six from the Grammy Awards, four from the Ivor Novello Awards, four from the MTV Europe Music Awards, three from the MTV Video Music Awards, three from the World Music Awards, and one each from the Mercury Prize (Album of the Year) and MOBO Awards (Best UK Female).
List of awards and nominations received by Amy Winehouse | Introduction
"Rehab" is a song written and recorded by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse, from her second and final studio album "Back to Black" (2006). Produced by Mark Ronson, the lyrics are autobiographical and address Winehouse's refusal to enter a rehabilitation clinic. "Rehab" was released as the lead single from "Back to Black" on 23 October 2006, and it peaked at number 7 in the United Kingdom on its Singles Chart and number 9 in the United States on the "Billboard" Hot 100, becoming Winehouse's only top 10 hit in the US. "Rehab" has become a critical and commercial success internationally, and has been referred to as Winehouse's "signature song".
Rehab (Amy Winehouse song) | Introduction
The documentary features various unheard tracks Winehouse had completed from when her career began in 2003 until her death. The film includes live sessions, such as: "There Is No Greater Love", "Stronger Than Me", "In My Bed", "Rehab" and "What Is It About Men", covers of Johnny Mercer's "Moon River" from when Winehouse was 16 at the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in 2000 and Donny Hathaway's "We're Still Friends" and never-before heard songs the star wrote, such as "Detachment" and the lyrics to "You Always Hurt The Ones You Love", combined with Pinto's composition "Amy Lives". Winehouse is recorded in March 2006 when she is recording her 2007 single "Back to Black" and there are also cuts and edits of her well-known tracks, which helps unveil every piece of footage in the film.
Amy (2015 film) | Music
He then continues, "I remember saying to Amy and Salaam, "You can't call this song 'Fuckery' [...] Salaam was more of the grown up of the two but Amy was like, 'Well, why can't I?' [...] That's why I always say, you have to give everything you're thinking and give people something that's exciting." The fourth song on the album, "Just Friends", is about "[a woman] trying to pull away from an illicit affair", with lyrics indicating, "The guilt will kill you if she don't first". It is a "ska-soul" song with a "pulsing reggae groove" throughout the track. Jon Pareles of "The New York Times" elaborates that Winehouse makes songs such as "Just Friends" into "games of tone and phrasing [...] withholding a line and then breezing through it, stretching out a note over [her backing band]'s steady beat".
Back to Black | Songs 1–6
on the way back Amy began telling Mark about being with Blake [Fielder-Civil, her ex], then not being with Blake and being with Alex instead. She told him about the time at my house after she'd been in hospital when everyone had been going on at her about her drinking: 'You know they tried to make me go to rehab, and I told them, no, no, no.' 'That's quite gimmicky,' Mark replied. 'It sounds hooky. You should go back to the studio and we should turn that into a song.'" The majority of the songs produced by Ronson were completed at Daptone Records—along with the instrumental help of The Dap-Kings—in Brooklyn, New York.
Back to Black | Recording and production
A "one-take" demo of the song recorded in March 2006 by O'Duffy later appeared on Winehouse's posthumous album, "". Nick Shymansky, Winehouse's first manager, revealed that the inspiration of "Some Unholy War", a mid-tempo soul song, came into fruition after Winehouse heard a radio broadcast on the War in Afghanistan. As she heard the term "holy war", a war being primarily caused or justified by differences in religion, Winehouse immediately thought of an idea to spin the religious conflict into her own personal issues with Fielder-Civil. The idea is further bolstered with the song's opening lines, "If my man was fighting some unholy war, I would be behind him".
Back to Black | Songs 7–11
On 2 April 2013, Amy Winehouse's father Mitchell Winehouse used his Twitter profile to reveal that Beyoncé had not informed him of her plans to cover the song and that he wanted income from the song to go to his Amy Winehouse Foundation. He wrote, "I don't know about this but what if Beyoncé gave £100,000 to the foundation? Do you know how many kids that would help? Just putting it out there." He later added, "Let me repeat. This is the first I have heard of Beyoncé doing Amy's song." Kia Makarechi of "The Huffington Post" noted that Beyoncé did not use the song as a personal record and thus it was "slightly curious" for Winehouse to request for her to pay out.
Back to Black (song) | Background and development
He further commented that "it strikes us as an unusually dark side of King Bey[oncé], who's supposed to be literally the most poised human being alive". Speaking about the modification of the lyrics, he noted that it was "but a little odd" and concluded the review by saying, "It's eerie but cool, and a fitting tribute to Winehouse's legacy." The full version of the song premiered on Mark Ronson's East Village Radio show on 26 April 2013. Upon its release, Ronson, who co-wrote the original song, commented that it was a "wonderful take on our song" and added: "I'm flattered and honoured, I know Amy would be too."
Back to Black (song) | Release
Winehouse later used his Twitter account to write "I like Beyoncé's cover and have no probs." However, upon hearing the full-length track, he wrote on his Twitter profile, "I just heard the André part of 'Back to Black'. Terrible. He should have let Beyoncé do it all."
Back to Black (song) | Background and development
They conversed in March 2006 in Ronson's New York studio that he used to have. They worked on six tracks together: "Rehab", "Back to Black", "You Know I'm No Good", "Love Is a Losing Game", "Wake Up Alone", and "He Can Only Hold Her". Ronson said in a 2010 interview with "The Guardian" that he liked working with Winehouse because she was blunt when she did not like his work. She in turn thought that when they first met, he was a sound engineer and that she was expecting an "older man with a beard". Ronson wrote "Back to Black" the night after he met Winehouse, explaining in a 2010 "Mojo" interview: "I just thought, 'Let's talk about music, see what she likes.' She said she liked to go out to bars and clubs and play snooker with her boyfriend and listen to the Shangri-Las.
Back to Black | Recording and production
In 2009 he was nominated for a Screen Nation Award in the Young Shooting Star category. Heshima toured with Amy Winehouse along with brother Zalon on her "Back to Black" album which was only scheduled to last for 3 months, but the tour was so successful they ended up touring for six years and collected five Grammy Awards.
Heshima Thompson | Introduction
Among the awards and recognition for her debut album "Frank", Winehouse earned an Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters for Best Contemporary Song ("Stronger Than Me"), a Brit Award nomination for Best British Female Solo Artist, and an inclusion in Robert Dimery's 2006 book, "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". Her second studio album, "Back to Black", produced numerous nominations, including two Brit Awards (Best British Album, and won her Best British Female Solo Artist), six Grammy Awards (including five wins), four Ivor Novello Awards, four MTV Europe Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, three World Music Awards, and it was nominated for the Mercury Prize (Album of the Year) and a MOBO Awards (Best UK Female).
Amy Winehouse | Awards and nominations
After the release of "Back to Black", record companies sought out more experimental female artists. Adele and Duffy were the second wave of artists with a sound similar to Winehouse's. A third wave of female musicians that has emerged since the album was released are led by V V Brown, Florence and the Machine, La Roux and Little Boots. During the nearly three-year period since "Back to Black" was released, Dan Cairns of "The Sunday Times" noted that there was a "notion [by A&R executives, radio playlisters and the public] that women are the driving commercial force in pop". In March 2011, the "New York Daily News" ran an article attributing the continuing wave of British female artists that have been successful in the United States to Winehouse and her absence.
Back to Black | Impact and legacy
English musicians Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse covered "Valerie" for Ronson's second studio album "Version" (2007). Released as the album's third single on 15 October 2007, the track was first performed by Winehouse on Jo Whiley's "Live Lounge" show on BBC Radio 1. Singer and director Jordan Galland plays the electric piano on this single. "Rolling Stone" called the cover Winehouse's only "notable recording" after "Back to Black". Winehouse had previously recorded a slower-tempo version of the song, which appeared as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of "Back to Black". The song has been featured in "27 Dresses" and "Amy" (2015), a documentary film biography of Winehouse, as well as in a U.S.
Valerie (Zutons song) | Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse version
"Spin" magazine music editor Charles Aaron was quoted as saying, "Amy Winehouse was the Nirvana moment for all these women [...] They can all be traced back to her in terms of attitude, musical styles or fashion." According to Keith Caulfield, chart manager for "Billboard", "Because of Amy, or the lack thereof, the marketplace was able to get singers like Adele, Estelle and Duffy [...] Now those ladies have brought on the new ones, like Eliza Doolittle, Rumer and Ellie [Goulding]." Linda Barnard of "The Toronto Star" finds Winehouse to be amongst "the British women who claimed chart-topping ownership [...] with powerful voices" and that her "impressive" five Grammy wins for "Back to Black" put her at the "pinnacle of pop music".
Back to Black | Impact and legacy
In November 2007, the opening night of a 17-date tour was marred by booing and walkouts at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham. A critic for the "Birmingham Mail" said it was "one of the saddest nights of my life [...] I saw a supremely talented artist reduced to tears, stumbling around the stage and, unforgivably, swearing at the audience." Other concerts ended similarly, with, for example, fans at her Hammersmith Apollo performance saying that she "looked highly intoxicated throughout", until she announced on 27 November 2007 that her performances and public appearances were cancelled for the remainder of the year, citing her doctor's advice to take a complete rest.
Back to Black | Touring
Amy Winehouse at the BBC is a posthumous live album by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse. It was released on 12 November 2012 by Universal Music Group. The album, along with Winehouse's previous record "", was released in aid of the Amy Winehouse Foundation. It features live songs performed by Winehouse at BBC specials during 2004 to 2009.
Amy Winehouse at the BBC | Introduction
The music video was directed by Phil Griffin and features a funeral procession in which Winehouse mourns over a grave that reads "R.I.P. the Heart of Amy Winehouse". The shot of the headstone was edited out after the singer's death in 2011. The video was primarily shot near Gibson Gardens and Chesholm Road in Stoke Newington, London. The graveyard scenes were filmed at Abney Park Cemetery in north-east London. According to the official Winehouse website, "Amy's sultry new video for Back in Black is both beautifully and artistically shot in black-and-white and compares in imagery a doomed love affair with that of a funeral." At the 2007 Music of Black Origin Awards (MOBO), the music video for the song was nominated in the category for Best Video but lost to Kanye West's "Stronger" (2007).
Back to Black (song) | Music video
American soul—through visionaries like Erykah Badu and Janelle Monae and Jill Scott—had moved on. But Winehouse was a fine shepherd of the past." By contrast, Robert Christgau dismissed Winehouse as "a self-aggrandizing self-abuser who's taken seriously because she makes a show of soul". In his opinion, the singer "simulated gravitas by running her suicidal tendencies through an amalgam of 20th-century African-American vocal stylings—the slides, growls, and melismatic outcries that for many matures are now the only reliable signifiers of pop substance". On 13 February 2012, Winehouse was ranked 26 on VH1's "100 Greatest Women in Music" list. In March 2017, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan said he was enjoying listening to Winehouse's last record ("Back to Black"), and called her "the last real individualist around."
Amy Winehouse | Critical appraisal
just jukebox, really." Ronson, however, said at that time that he had not started to record the album. She performed "Valerie" with Ronson at a movie premiere but forgot some of the song's lyrics. In October, Winehouse performed a four-song set to promote her fashion line. In December 2010, she played a 40-minute concert at a Russian oligarch's party in Moscow, with the tycoon hand selecting the songs. In January 2011, Winehouse played five dates in Brazil, with opening acts of Janelle Monáe and Mayer Hawthorne. The following month she cut short a performance in Dubai following booing from the audience.
Amy Winehouse | 2009–2011: Final projects before death
Winehouse's last studio recording was the song "Body and Soul", a duet with Tony Bennett. The song appears on Winehouse's posthumous compilation album "" and Bennett's album "Duets II". In 2015, the critically acclaimed documentary film "Amy", which depicts the life and death of Winehouse, spawned an original soundtrack of the same name that includes Winehouse's well known tracks, previously unheard tracks, rare live sessions, covers and tracks created by film composer Antônio Pinto. It is Winehouse's second posthumous compilation album. The soundtrack peaked at number 19 on the UK Albums Chart.
Amy Winehouse discography | Introduction
In a mixed review, "Rolling Stone"s Christian Hoard stated: "The tunes don't always hold up. But the best ones are impossible to dislike." Robert Christgau gave it an "honorable mention" in his consumer guide for "MSN Music", citing "You Know I'm No Good" and "Rehab" as highlights and writing, "Pray her marriage lasts—she's observant, and it would broaden her perspective". "Pitchfork" critic Joshua Klein criticised Winehouse's "defensive", subjective lyrics concerning relationships, but added that "Winehouse has been blessed by a brassy voice that can transform even mundane sentiments into powerful statements".
Back to Black | Critical reception
The discography of English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse consists of two studio albums, one live album, three compilation albums, four extended plays, 14 singles (including three as a featured artist), three video albums and 14 music videos. At the time of her death on 23 July 2011, Winehouse had sold over 1.75 million singles and over 3.98 million albums in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, she had sold about 3.4 million tracks and 2.7 million albums in the United States as of the same date. Winehouse's debut album, "Frank", was released in October 2003 and peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart.
Amy Winehouse discography | Introduction
He then played the song for Winehouse and, when she expressed interest, made a backing track for her. Harrison was not originally given a writing credit on "Back to Black", so he sued Winehouse for copyright infringement. They had a settlement over the song, and eventually, his name was added to the track. The initial "Back to Black" liner notes only said: "Original demo produced by P*Nut [John Harrison's nickname]." "Addicted", a bonus track included on the expanded versions of "Back to Black", pertains to Winehouse's experiences with marijuana. "I used to smoke a lot of weed", the singer told "Rolling Stone" in 2007.
Back to Black | Songs 7–11
Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter. She was known for her deep, expressive contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres, including soul, rhythm and blues and jazz. A member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra during her youth, Winehouse signed to Simon Fuller's 19 Management in 2002 and soon recorded a number of songs before signing a publishing deal with EMI. She also formed a working relationship with producer Salaam Remi through these record publishers. Winehouse's debut album, "Frank", was released in 2003. Many of the album's songs were influenced by jazz and, apart from two covers, were co-written by Winehouse.
Amy Winehouse | Introduction
After all, Trainor is no Amy Winehouse, lacking both that singer's raw emotive talent and "Back to Black"s ability to infuse her period sound with a distinctly 21st-century sonic and lyrical sophistication." "Spin" writer Dan Weiss said, "If "Title" ends up being a gateway for body-conscious adolescents [...], more power to it", adding, "But if she was actually as clever as her press release and titled the album "It Girl With Staying Power", she might actually have staying power".
Title (Meghan Trainor album) | Critical reception
The Foundation’s work focuses on three core areas: The Foundation was established with royalties from the sales of 2011's "" album (with £1 per album going to the charity), and also the sales of "Amy - My Daughter", a biography of Winehouse written by her father, Mitch Winehouse. As of 2012/13, the charity relies on donations from the general public and fundraising events to continue its work. Such events include the auction of the iconic polka dot chiffon dress worn by Winehouse on the cover of her critically acclaimed second album "Back to Black" - with a winning bid of £36,000 GBP.
Amy Winehouse Foundation | Focus
The breakup left her going to "black", which to the listener may appear to refer to drinking and depression. However, the "black" she refers to is more likely heroin, which she was openly addicted to. The song's lyrical content consists of a sad goodbye to a relationship with the lyrics being frank. John Murphy of "musicOMH" compared the song's introduction to the Martha and the Vandellas song "Jimmy Mack", adding that it continues to a "much darker place". "Love Is a Losing Game" is a sentimental ballad that invokes Winehouse's chosen metaphor as a pastime that could be "addictive and destructive".
Back to Black | Songs 1–6
The album includes well-known tracks by Winehouse, such as "Stronger Than Me", "Tears Dry on Their Own" and "Back to Black", live sessions of "What Is It About Men", "Rehab", "We're Still Friends" and "Love Is a Losing Game", a downtempo version of "Some Unholy War", a demo version of "Like Smoke", a cover of The Zutons' "Valerie" performed by Winehouse and Mark Ronson, and a 2011 version of "Body and Soul" performed by Winehouse and Tony Bennett. The soundtrack is the second posthumous compilation album by Winehouse. The album also features original compositions that were included on the documentary by Antônio Pinto.
Amy (soundtrack) | Description
"Tears Dry on Their Own" is a song by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse from her second and final studio album, "Back to Black" (2006). It was released on 13 August 2007 as the album's fourth single. While the melody and lyrics are composed by Winehouse, the music behind her voice is a sample interpolation of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's 1967 song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", penned by the married duo of Ashford & Simpson. The original ballad version of the track is featured on the posthumous album "" (2011). The song was featured in the documentary film based on the life and death of Winehouse, "Amy" (2015) and was also included on the film's soundtrack.
Tears Dry on Their Own | Introduction
Recorded for her 2003 debut album "Frank", the Amy Winehouse remake of "Our Day Will Come" was first issued on the singer's posthumous compilation album "". The song was released to UK contemporary hit radio on November 2, 2011, as the album's second single, Winehouse's first solo single release since "Love Is a Losing Game" in 2007 (a duet with Tony Bennett on "Body and Soul" had been issued as a single on September 14, 2011—which would have been her 28th birthday). Producer Salaam Remi who had worked with Winehouse on her albums "Frank" and "Back to Black", as well as on the posthumous compilation, stated that "Our Day Will Come" will serve as a poignant reminder of the star's talent.
Our Day Will Come | Amy Winehouse version
The genesis for "Made in Britain" came about when the band's London tour manager introduced Black to a PR company that were aiming to do PR on Black's autobiography "Black by Design". Black suggested to the company that, to promote the book, The Selecter record a cover version of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black", an idea they had been keeping for a while, as well as record their original song "Big in the Body, Small in the Mind," and release them as a single. Black explained: "I said would you be interested in promoting those as singles alongside the book, then we'll release them as the year goes by?" The company denied her offer because they found albums to be more fashionable than singles, so asked her to record a new Selecter album instead.
Made in Britain (album) | Background and recording
"Back to Black" has been cited to have musical stylings of contemporary R&B, neo soul, reggae, classic R&B, and 1960s "pop and soul". According to AllMusic's John Bush, "Back to Black" finds Winehouse "deserting jazz and wholly embracing contemporary R&B". David Mead of "Paste" also viewed it as a departure from "Frank" and said that it sets her singing to Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson's "synthetic Motown-style backdrop". Meanwhile, Ann Powers from NPR Music characterised "Back to Black" as "a full embrace of classic rhythm and blues." Music journalist Chuck Eddy credits Ronson and Remi's production for resembling Phil Spector's Wall of Sound technique and surrounding Winehouse with brass and string sections, harp, and the Wurlitzer.
Back to Black | Composition and sound
"You Know I'm No Good" is an uptempo song about Winehouse cheating on a "good man that loves her", and therefore cheating herself out of a healthy relationship. The lyrics also entail Winehouse as being "helpless" while trying to understand and resist her own self-destructive compulsions. In the jazz and reggae-influenced "Me and Mr Jones" song, Winehouse sings about accepting that she never made it to a Slick Rick concert, but yet refuses to skip a Nas show as they were both close friends (Nas' last name is Jones). The song's title plays off the 1972 "Me and Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul.
Back to Black | Songs 1–6
In addition to the live album, a box set was released on 12 November 2012. It features the album along with three extra DVDs: "Arena: Amy Winehouse – The Day She Came to Dingle" (which is also featured in the two-disc version of the album), "A Tribute to Amy Winehouse by Jools Holland" and "Amy Winehouse – BBC One Sessions Live at Porchester Hall".
Amy Winehouse at the BBC | Deluxe Box Set
Six of the tracks on Amy Winehouse's 2006 album "Back to Black" feature various members of the Dap-Kings, including two hits from the album, "Rehab" and "You Know I'm No Good". Several tracks recorded at Daptone Studios are miscredited as "Dapking Studios". Various members of the band feature on all but one of the track on Mark Ronson's second album, "Version" (2007). The Dap-Kings became the backing band for Amy Winehouse's first U.S. tour. After Winehouse's passing, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings joined Nas, Florence Welch, Wanda Jackson, and The Roots in tribute to her during "VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul".
Sharon Jones &amp; the Dap-Kings | Collaborations
Throughout their set a wall of Warholian images were displayed in the background and on the big screens on either side of the stage. Amy Winehouse took to the Main Stage before 7 pm just two hours after flying in by private plane. She swigged from a glass of vodka and coke whilst she sang along to anthems including "Back to Black" before finishing her set with "Rehab" and "Valerie". A backstage source revealed: "Amy was looking very frail but she was determined to have a couple of drinks even if it was against doctors' orders. She came in and left straight after the gig and caused very little fuss." Winehouse gave a taste of her new material, which carried obvious Caribbean influences, supported by her choice of a tropical-printed mini-dress.
Oxegen 2008 | Saturday
There are various pieces of extensive, unseen archive footage of Winehouse, such as when she is video-recorded in a cab with friend Tyler James in January 2001 and driving to tours and on her long-term friend, Lauren Gilbert's holiday tape in Majorca, Spain in August 2005. The film also shows various interviews, such as with Jonathan Ross, Tim Kash, and a funny video of when Winehouse is interviewed and talked to about singer Dido in 2004, when she promoted her debut album. The documentary also includes when Winehouse performed live from London on the Grammy Awards in 2008, and won the award for "Record of the Year".
Amy (2015 film) | Synopsis
"Lioness: Hidden Treasures" was announced for release on 31 October 2011 via Winehouse's official website. Island Records co-president Ted Cockle has emphasised that "Lioness" is not in any way the planned follow-up to Winehouse's album "Back to Black" (2006). In fact, only two songs intended for the planned follow-up had been completed prior to her death. The album is a compilation of recordings from before the release of Winehouse's debut studio album, "Frank", in 2002, up to music she was working on in 2011. Producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson compiled the album with the consent of the Winehouse family.
Lioness: Hidden Treasures | Background
The album was released to moderately positive critical reviews, with aggregator Metacritic assigning a positive review score of 64%, indicating generally favourable reception. Gary Mulholland of the BBC wrote that the set "stands as an alternative Best Of, showcasing her skills as a live performer."
Amy Winehouse at the BBC | Reception
The English singer Amy Winehouse recorded songs for two studio albums.
List of songs recorded by Amy Winehouse | Introduction
"You Know I'm No Good" is a song written and performed by English singer Amy Winehouse from her second and final studio album, "Back to Black" (2006). "You Know I'm No Good" was released as the second single from "Back to Black" on 5 January 2007. Originally recorded as a solo track, it was remixed with guest vocals from the Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah. The original appeared on Winehouse's album, while the version with Ghostface Killah appears on his album "More Fish". Arctic Monkeys performed this song on Jo Whiley's Live Lounge on BBC Radio 1 in their second appearance there, along with their single at the time, "Brianstorm".
You Know I'm No Good | Introduction
We were looking for a song that would speak to the almost 'Sid and Nancy' addictive love that Gatsby and Daisy have found themselves re-engaging in. Everybody knows the Amy Winehouse version of this song, and I think this is a very interesting interpretation. It plunges you further into this particular kind of lovesickness. I think it works very well in the film, where it blends between a jazz recording that The Bryan Ferry Orchestra did and the version on the album with Beyoncé and André 3000. That combination helps to deepen the resonance of what the song is telling us.
Back to Black (song) | Background and development
During the same year, "Back To Black" by Amy Winehouse became the UK's second best selling album of the 21st century and its 13th best-selling album of all time following her death in 2011, certified platinum 11 times. In 2013, despite the trend of declining album sales persisting, the British music industry saw a 9% growth in revenue which could be traced to "individual revenues by musicians, singers, composers, songwriters and lyricists", adding £3.8bn to the UK economy. In 2014, the UK's top 10 albums were all by British artists, including releases by Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, George Ezra, Paolo Nutini, Coldplay and One Direction.
British popular music | 2010s to present
On 8 February 2015, a teaser trailer of "Amy" debuted at the pre-Grammy event in the build-up to the 2015 Grammy Awards. A teaser theatrical poster for the documentary film was released on 18 March 2015 on Twitter, and the first trailer was released on 2 April 2015, with receiving more than two million views Altitude Film's channel on YouTube. Footage from the teaser trailer shows Winehouse as a young woman at the beginning of her music career answering questions about how she sees herself as an artist and how she felt about fame. Various official teaser clips from the film were released on YouTube to the buildup and throughout the documentary's release in July by Altitude Film and A24, including clips of Winehouse talking about how she felt about depression, how she thinks she would have handled fame from her early years, when she was recording her album "Back to Black" with her record producer Mark Ronson in March 2006 and when she was videotaped singing the "Happy Birthday" song at the fourteenth birthday party of her friend, Lauren Gilbert, in 1998 which received over one million views after 48 hours.
Amy (2015 film) | Marketing
Winehouse performed the song at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony while in London, along with her hit single "Rehab". The performance was broadcast internationally via satellite. The song's performance on the awards ceremony subsequently led to an increase in digital downloads, notably on iTunes, where the song re-entered the Top Songs chart at number 55 in the United States. This resulted in a new peak for the song on the "Billboard" Hot 100, of number 77, one spot ahead of its previous peak. Arctic Monkeys performed a cover of the song on their 2007 tour. A remix by Ghostface Killah appears on the reissue of "Back to Black", featuring one verse by Ghostface, and a second remix, featuring more Ghostface verses, appears on his album "More Fish".
You Know I'm No Good | Reception