Amy Winehouse
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Amy Winehouse: Dietrich with a nose-stud
Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 28 October 2003
Her voice belongs in a 1940s jazz bar. But Amy Winehouse may be the future of hip-hop. Dave Simpson meets her ...
Amy Winehouse: Frank (Island) ****
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, December 2003
19-year-old Londoner gives polite jazz a slap. ...
Amy Winehouse: Bush Hall, London ***½
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 5 December 2003
YOU WAIT ALL millennium for a commercial but unembarrassing British female singer, then two come along within weeks of each other. ...
Amy Winehouse: Frank (Island) ****
Review by Stevie Chick, MOJO, January 2004
Stunning, hilarious debut album from UK soul chanteuse. ...
Amy Winehouse: Jazz Cafe, London/The Twilight Singers: Islington Academy, London
Live Review by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 1 February 2004
"YOUR NEIGHBOURS WERE screaming 'I don't have a key for downstairs'/ So I punched all the buzzers, hoping you wouldn't be there..." ...
Amy Winehouse: Concorde 2, Brighton ****
Review and Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, July 2004
Meet the hotshot jazz chanteuse you couldn't take home to mum. ...
Amy Winehouse: Bloomsbury Ballroom, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 14 September 2006
WHILE AMY Winehouse has been off making the follow-up to her 2003 Mercury-nominated debut album, Frank, her role as the new kid on the block ...
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black (Island)*****
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 27 October 2006
SHE'S A BRAVE lass, Amy Winehouse. It's rare to find any artist changing their approach between albums, and virtually unknown if their debut was a ...
Review by Paul Elliott, MOJO, November 2006
Once a teen prodigy, now a major contender. Amy Winehouse comes of age on her second album, says Paul Elliott. ...
Amy Winehouse: Back To Black (Island) ****
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, November 2006
The first wasn't a fluke. Fine follow-up to Frank ...
She's Class with a Glass: Amy Winehouse
Interview by Sophie Heawood, The Times, 3 November 2006
Cockney chanteuse Amy Winehouse thinks rehab is for wimps. But will her battles with her addictive personality deprive her of her rightful place in musical ...
Overview by Jude Rogers, New Statesman, 11 December 2006
At the beginning of 2006, the prospects looked bleak for strong, idiosyncratic female pop acts. Jude Rogers meets three remarkable artists who changed all that ...
Live Review by Amy Linden, The Village Voice, 16 January 2007
WITH HYPE justified by her soon come (and already #1 in the UK) sophomore CD Back To Black), and a Ghostface remix of the slurred, ...
Amy Winehouse: Astoria, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, February 2007
OF COURSE, she looks spectacular. Even dressed down in a blue polo shirt and jeans, like she's just nipping to the shops for a pint ...
The Brits 2007: Live and Everything
Report by Jude Rogers, Guardian Unlimited, 14 February 2007
LADIES AND gentlemen! Boys and girls! Pop spods and car crash-telly fans! The hour is at hand! Welcome, one and all, to the Brits blog! ...
Interview by Amy Linden, unpublished, March 2007
This interview was conducted March 2007, the day Amy's Back to Black dropped. As part of the overall story we talked about her relationship to ...
Amy Winehouse: Booze and cheers
Interview by Sophie Heawood, The Times, 8 April 2007
AMY WINEHOUSE sings like an angel, drinks like the devil and loves her festivals. ...
Digital Venuses: Lily Allen, Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse
Comment by Kandia Crazy Horse, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 8 May 2007
CALL THEM the new British bitch pack: barefoot soul shouter Joss Stone and her ascendant sistren, skankin' Lily Allen and torchy Amy Winehouse (Corinne Bailey ...
Interview by Amy Linden, XXL Hip Hop Soul, June 2007
UNDER LOS ANGELES' sparkly surface there lies a noir beauty, and nowhere is that gritty glamour more present than at the legendary Chateau Marmont. Nestled ...
Hip-Hop Junkies: Amy Winehouse
Interview by Amy Linden, XXL, June 2007
23-YEAR-OLD UK soul/jazz chanteuse Amy Winehouse has taken music by storm with her American debut Back To Black. Already huge overseas, Amy first got US ...
Amy Winehouse: Somerset House, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, July 2007
THE LAST TIME I had a ticket for Amy Winehouse was back in March, at Spaceland in LA. She'd played the Roxy the night before ...
Mark Ronson: Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
Interview by Alan Light, Guilt & Pleasure, September 2007
Shedding the mantle of socialite DJ to become a critically successful producer, Mark Ronson is Jewtastic. ...
The Mercury Prize: The agony and the ecstasy
Report by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 6 September 2007
How can you possibly choose just one winner from 233 albums? Mercury prize panellist Jude Rogers lifts the lid on the judging for the music ...
Amy Winehouse: NIA, Birmingham
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 15 November 2007
EVEN BY HER normal soap-opera standards, this last fortnight has been unusually turbulent for Amy Winehouse. ...
Amy Winehouse: Carling Academy, Newcastle
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 20 November 2007
FORTY-FIVE MINUTES after Amy Winehouse is due on stage, there is still no sign of the singer, which offers an opportunity to ponder the latest ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, December 2007
Amy Winehouse didn't show. Her producer did. ...
I need a break, what shall I have: heroin or a baby?
Comment by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 20 December 2007
As Amy Winehouse's problems mount, and Lily Allen announces that she is pregnant, Caitlin Moran explains that the two young singers are under the same ...
Amy Winehouse: Killing Me Softly
Report by Paul Elliott, MOJO, January 2008
She is the finest female vocalist of her generation, but in 2007 Amy Winehouse became an easy mark for the tabloids, with tales of drugs, ...
Amy Winehouse: Life Imitating Art...
Comment by Kate Mossman, The Word, January 2008
...imitating life. When did Amy Winehouse start to inhabit her songs, wonders KATE MOSSMAN. ...
The Slow Blackout of Amy Winehouse
Comment by Amy Linden, The Village Voice, 15 January 2008
How a troubled r&b mega-talent's breakout hit turned against her ...
Comment by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 23 January 2008
FOOTAGE HAS emerged of the troubled songstress Amy Winehouse apparently smoking crack at her home in east London. The substance is widely regarded as the ...
Why Amy Winehouse is On The Rocks
Essay by Nick Kent, The Times, 24 January 2008
As troubled singer Amy Winehouse is filmed smoking crack cocaine, our writer, a veteran of the 1970s music and drug culture, explains why we view ...
Report by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 27 July 2008
Her phenomenal talent has been eclipsed by her terrifying ability to self-destruct. Can anything save Amy from herself? ...
Report by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 8 September 2008
Still bloody loud and clear at Bestival ...
All rock stars have a price, even Mick Jagger
Report by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 28 June 2009
The biggest names in music have been enjoying a nice little earner – getting paid millions to perform for the super-rich. ...
Record Shopping with Mark Ronson
Report and Interview by Pete Paphides, The Times, 24 September 2010
He may have fallen out with Amy Winehouse but the A-list producer finds a soulmate in a fellow vinyl obsessive ...
Obituary by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 23 July 2011
Singer with a soul-steeped voice whose instantly successful Back to Black album reflected her tormented experience of love ...
Amy Winehouse: A Rock Star Dead Again at 27
Comment by Wayne Robins, Rock's Backpages, 23 July 2011
THE OTHER DAY I was listening to Amy Winehouse sing "You Know I'm No Good" on WFUV, and thought about how authentic she sounded. Not ...
Amy Winehouse: Lioness – Hidden Treasures
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 14 December 2011
LIONESS: Hidden Treasures is an appropriately muted set, with Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi producing an honourable and moving tribute to the Amy Winehouse. In ...
Amy Winehouse: Lioness: Hidden Treasures (Island)
Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Word, January 2012
Danse Macabre: Subdued cover versions and a posthumous "duet" — the final album from Amy Winehouse is an unsettling experience ...
Retrospective by 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 ...
Comment by Amy Linden, Ebony, 26 September 2013
Born 30 years ago this month, Winehouse seemed more intuitively connected to black soul than other white pop stars in her wake ...
Interview by Larry LeBlanc, Celebrity Access, 8 January 2014
This week In the Hot Seat with Larry LeBlanc: Salaam Remi, composer, producer, musician and label executive. ...
Mawkish Tabloid Fare: How the Amy Winehouse Film Fails
Film/DVD/TV Review by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 2 July 2015
This film laments the way Winehouse's life was intruded upon while relying on the same methods to create drama. ...
Slept on Soul: Amy Winehouse's Frank
Column by Michael A. Gonzales, soulhead, 8 July 2015
DOLLED-UP LIKE a Phil Spector creation doo-wopping on a Bronx boulevard, Amy Winehouse came into most Americans' homes with the release of her second album ...
Daptone Records: The Sound that Gave Amy Soul
Report and Interview by Paul Sexton, The Independent, 16 October 2015
Daptone Records has put authentic soul into R&B for 15 years, from Back to Black to 'Uptown Funk'. ...
Asif Kapadia: Amy (Island/Universal DVD)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, December 2015
WHILE GIFTED, tragic figures are the very bread and butter of the music documentarian, has there ever been a film in which the downward spiral ...
Amy Winehouse's Back to Black: 10 Things You Didn't Know
Retrospective by Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 27 October 2016
How 'Rehab' came to be, which song Nas inspired and other behind-the-scenes facts about singer-songwriter's 2006 smash ...
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