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Since:
September 6th, 2007
Webmiss: Monica
URL:
amy-winehouse.org //
amy-w.net
Hosted by:
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Fresh
from
her
triumphant
performance
at the
Brits
where
she picked
up the
British
Female
Solo
Artist
award,
Amy
Winehouse
has
her
much
anticipated
new
single,
”Back
To
Black”,
released
on
April
16th
through
Island
Records.
The
single
is the
title
track
from
Amy’s
stunning
album
“Back
To
Black”,
which
this
week
re-gained
the
no. 1
slot,
and
looks
set to
go
triple
–platinum
in a
matter
of
weeks
with
sales
fast
approaching
the
900,000
mark.
Amy is
currently
in the
middle
of her
sell-out
UK
tour
which
will
be
followed
by her
first
ever
US
tour.
The
American
dates
kick
off
with a
sold-out
show
at the
Bowery
Ballroom
in New
York
City
where
Amy
will
also
mark
her US
television
debut
with a
performance
on the
David
Letterman
Show.
It’s
been a
fantastic
few
months
for
Amy
since
the
release,
at the
end of
October
’06,
of her
anthemic
single
“Rehab”.
“Rehab”
entered
the
chart
at no.
7 and
was
followed
by
“Back
To
Black”
which
was
released
to
universal
acclaim
and
finished
the
year
topping
many
end of
year
polls.
A
second
single,
“You
Know
I’m No
Good”,
featuring
Ghostface
Killah,
was
released
in
January
and
gave
Amy
her
second
big
hit.
Two
Brit
nominations,
a
South
Bank
Show
award
and an
Elle
Style
award
followed
before
Amy
scooped
the
British
Best
Female
last
week
at
Earl’s
Court.
Amy’s
live
shows
feature
songs
drawn
from
her
platinum
debut
“Frank”
and
“Back
To
Black”.
“Frank”
established
Amy as
one of
the
most
exciting
and
challenging
artists
in pop
music,
and
“Back
To
Black”
proves,
beyond
any
reasonable
or
unreasonable
doubt,
what a
truly
remarkable
talent
she is.
Winehouse’s
song-writing
and
fearlessness
as a
lyric
writer
has
been
grafted
onto
some
of the
most
astonishing
material
of her
short
career
so far.
“Back
To
Black”
sees
her
teaming
up
once
again
with
“Frank”
producer
Salaam
Remi
and,
for
the
first
time,
with
New
Yorker
Mark
Ronson
(Lily
Allen,
Robbie
Williams
and
Christina
Aguilera).
Two
years
ago,
following
the
success
of “Frank”,
Amy
began
thinking
about
what
she’d
like
to do
with
her
second
record.
“Frank”
was
her
grand
and
suitably
blunt-speaking
break-up
record,
and it
won
her a
battalion
of
fans
around
the
world,
marking
her
out as
one of
the
most
distinct
new
voices
in pop;
confessional,
elemental
and
with
that
rarest
of
combinations:
humour
and
soul.
“I
didn’t
want
to
play
the
jazz
thing
up too
much
again.
I was
bored
of
complicated
chord
structures
and
needed
something
more
direct.
I’d
been
listening
to a
lot of
girl-groups
from
the
fifties
and
sixties.
I
liked
the
simplicity
of
that
stuff.
It
just
gets
to the
point.”
You
can
hear
it on
the
subtley
Supremes-referencing
intro
of
“Back
To
Black”.
But
her
reach
stretches
further.
While
the
girl-groups
of the
sixties
to
which
she
had
become
enthralled
contained
their
vocals,
Amy
can
break
loose
with
Aretha-style
vocal
stylings
on
“Just
Friends”
or by
turning
the
whole
idea
of
drying
out
into a
gospel
spiritual
on the
stunning
opener
“Rehab”.
“Love
is a
Losing
Game”
is
pure
classic
modern
song-writing:
brief,
to the
point
and
drenched
in
emotion.
Other
highlights
include
the
Nas
inspired
“Me
and Mr
Jones”,
the
beautiful
“Wake
Up
Alone”,
“I’m
No
Good”,
the
personal
epiphany
that
you
can
behave
just
as
badly
as all
those
guys
that
have
messed
you
around
and
stamped
all
over
you,
and
the
bluesy
smooch
of the
title
track,
“Back
To
Black”.
Amy
passed
away
on
July
23rd
2011
but
her
legacy
lives
on.
She
gave
us two
amazing
records
and
we'll
always
treasure
baby
mermaid.
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