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Amy Winehouse: Lost Girl

William Shaw, Q, August 2012

The force of nature who made Back To Black was also a vulnerable daddy's girl, a harsh taskmistress, a woman with a weakness for the wrong men — and an instinctive musical genius. On the first anniversary of her death, William Shaw meets the people who knew the real Amy Winehouse.

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