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♪ And now the final frame

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♪ Love

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- I'll be watching
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So you know, it'll be good.

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- Amy Winehouse
is one of the most iconic

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artists of the 21st century.

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Her sound, style and honesty
set her apart from the rest

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as truly one a kind.

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- Amy's music was so
different because nobody

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had done it like Amy
Winehouse before.

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The lyrics, they tore
at your heart strings.

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They had depth.

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You could tell that
she'd experienced them.

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- I'll always put a
punchline in the song always.

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I don't know, I just
try and be different

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with my lyrics, definitely.

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- Thanks to her
monumental album Back to Black

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in 2006, she went on
to be one of the most

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award-winning superstars and
the face of British music.

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- I just wanna make an album
where I'm doing everything.

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I wanna be able to say that
is mine, you know what I mean.

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I made this, and it's mine.

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- But the
constant fame and attention

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came at a price.

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With the nonstop
year in, year out war

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between her and the media,
Amy Winehouse found herself

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caught up in
life-threatening addictions,

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class A substance
abuse, self-harm and
toxic relationships.

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Inevitably ending
in her tragic demise

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that stunned the world.

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- Police were called by the
London Ambulance Service

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to a house in Camden
Square Northwest One

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shortly before 1605 hours today.

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According to reports of
a woman found deceased,

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and I can confirm that the
deceased is Amy Winehouse.

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- Well the thing about
Amy Winehouse was,

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there was nothing
mediocre about her,

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and she had bucket
loads of soul.

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- Witness the
rise and fall of Britain's

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most iconic star and the leadup
to her devastating death.

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♪ I want to kiss you

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♪ But I would not dare

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- Born on the
14th of September, 1983,

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Amy Winehouse grew up in
Camden Towne in London.

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Raised by her parents,
Mitch and Janice Winehouse,

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Amy was raised listening
to the soulful sounds

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of Frank Sinatra and 1950s jazz.

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It was this upbringing
that helped shape her

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into the performer she
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♪ I hope I never wake up

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♪ If you are but

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♪ A dream

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- I don't think our
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than anybody else's house.

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When I was a small
child, everybody was
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literally dancing, I
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because there was no television.

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So what did people do
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They sang, they
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They'd stand me on the table
at my grandmother's house,

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and they'd say, Ladies and
gentlemen, Mitchell Winehouse,

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and I'd come out
and I'd do a bow.

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And that's how people
entertained themselves.

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It was a different when Amy
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when she was a little
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the same games, and the
house was full of music

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and the extended family that I
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it was the same when
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There was my mum.

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There was my stepfather, her
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I mean, everyone was
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were still alive when
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so the house was
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Ladies and gentlemen, Amy
Winehouse, and she'd get up

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and do a little bow and
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That's how it started for her.

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- Amy was
a natural performer.

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At just the age of 14, she
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and was writing her own music.

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she developed a
love for hip-hop,
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This genre would
further influence her
sound going forward.

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- I was very influenced
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from maybe, I mean
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it would be the thing, the
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in my life maybe when I was 13,

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is when I knew that I would
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Because there was nothing
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And today, you know,
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how important music is to me.

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People say, it's just music.

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Or Lisa from Steps, it's just
a laugh, it's just music.

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And you're like, no,
nothing else speaks to me

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the way music does, that's
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- It didn't
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recognized by record labels.

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At just the age of 20, Amy
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titled Frank, an incredibly
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that put her straight
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as a real musical talent.

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- Amy's debut album,
Frank, was astonishing.

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You listened to it, and
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It really hit you between
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this voice is astonishing.

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Amy wasn't happy with it.

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And that would really
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of her career, she
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And she didn't think
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had done her justice.

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Everyone else thinks it
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forward to Back to Black and
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the depth of feeling
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but as a debut album
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- When I first heard Frank,
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I thought, ah, because it's
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And then when I heard it a
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It's a play on words as
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of Frank Sinatra in there.

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She doesn't sound like Sinatra
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but she has a certain
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and appreciation that he did.

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Both Sinatra and Amy Winehouse
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but they had a deep love of
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and it comes through
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- It's a really versatile
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with every aspect of it.

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The music stands up by itself
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quietly and still
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and kinda feel the chords.

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And the beats stand up so
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the music, it sounds ridiculous.

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I try and do
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with everything in the songs.

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- This is a first album.

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This is quite a
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This is an award-winning
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in all these pop magazines
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It sold incredibly well
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of this young lady just
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she was a household name.

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And it's important, I
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and remember, in those wonderful
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she looked healthy, she
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on target, on key, focused.

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I'm not just talking about
her voice being on key.

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I'm talking about, her
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and measure and direction,
and it was really great.

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With Frank, she's
honest, she's pure.

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It's as clean as we're
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even though she's got
the suggestive lyrics

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and can swear and
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But it's Amy Winehouse.

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- I wouldn't write
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directly personal to me, just
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to tell the story right or
really fill out the song

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with words because I
wouldn't have done it.

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So all of it is stuff
that I've been through

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and, you know, even
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personal in a sad way, I would
never let it just be that.

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It's very funny, like
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I'll always put a punchline
in the song always.

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And I don't know, I just
try and be different

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with my lyrics, definitely.

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♪ You should be
stronger than me ♪

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♪ You've been here seven
years longer than me ♪

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- Amy Winehouse's music
is very autobiographical.

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Doesn't take Sherlock Holmes
to figure that one out.

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That first single,
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metaphorically, in the lyrics,
for a strong male figure

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in her life, in this case
a romantic male figure.

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But in real life, she was
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figure the whole time.

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♪ You should be
stronger than me ♪

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♪ But instead you're
longer than frozen turkey ♪

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♪ Why do you always
put me in control ♪

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And it's ironic that in
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you have her searching
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figure who isn't there.

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You have her having trouble
with her romantic fellow,

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her boyfriend, and that was
much of the story of her life.

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And it's crazy to think,
here it is foretold

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in this very early video
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I'm not saying she's
clairvoyant or anything,

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but it is tragic to
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knowing what we know
about Amy Winehouse now,

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and think, oh my God,
in three minutes,

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this is the story of
this young lady's life.

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- During the
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and attending awards
ceremonies, Amy was loving

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the endless praise and
attention from her new fans

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and the press, but
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to change her as a person.

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- I first met Amy in
2003 at the Brit Awards.

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It was the year before
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To be honest, nobody
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I was wearing a dress
with lots of tassels on.

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She came running up to
me and said, mate, mate,

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love the dress, love the dress!

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I looked at her, and I
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She was this
chubby-faced, young,

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energetic, full of life,
having so much fun.

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You could see that she
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I'm at the Brits, this is
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- It hasn't changed.

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I mean, people never used to
come up to me on the street

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and say, Oh my God,
you're Amy Winehouse.

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People never used to say
that, and they do now,

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but I wouldn't say
that's a change.

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I mean, that's an obvious
change, but I'm not changing.

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I'm not going, Yes, it is
me, yes, it is Amy Winehouse.

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I'm going, hello, you got my
album, that's really nice.

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Go and buy one for
your mum as well.

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Thank you, bye.

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My idea of success is just to
have an album in front of you

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that is just 100% the
vision in your head, on CD.

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Sometimes I think a lotta
people are caught up

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in maybe wanting to
win awards or wanting

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to write songs for people,
as opposed to what they like,

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or, you know, caught up in
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all the time on the street.

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Whereas, I don't even
wear makeup when I'm
not even working.

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I think I have a
different set of goals

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to the record company,
anyway, definitely.

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- Whilst Amy
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in the music industry, taking
in all of the new popularity,

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she met a music video
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This would be the start of
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stormy relationships
anyone had ever seen.

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That production
assistant would be none

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other than Blake Fielder Civil.

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- Amy Winehouse and
Blake Fielder Civil,

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it has to be the most
destructive relationship

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in showbiz history.

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They were complete
and utter soulmates.

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She adored him, he adored her,

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and they almost couldn't
live without each other.

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But they also both really
destroyed each other.

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- There's no doubt that
Blake Fielder Civil

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was the love of Amy's life.

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I think when it was
great, it was wonderful.

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I think she'd never experienced
happiness like that.

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Also fair to say
that she was the one

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who had the high-flying career.

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He was a runner
for music videos.

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She loved him.

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She loved the way he looked,
she loved the hats he wore.

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She thought that he was
the male version of her.

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She thought he was perfection.

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- What Amy saw in Blake
was perhaps somebody

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who could actually
understand her, and some men

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are incredibly good at latching
onto women with problems

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to displace focus,
or having to focus

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on problems they
themselves have.

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And they come across as the
knight in shining armor,

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the man on a white steed.

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And the woman falls for it,
and she'll think, oh my God,

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this man understands
me, he loves me.

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He really understands
what I'm going through.

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He's going through
something similar to me.

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He can connect with me,
and I can connect with him

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in a way that I just
can't with anyone else.

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And of course, she was known
to carve "I love Blake"

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in glass on her stomach.

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- Blake Fielder
Civil was infamously the one

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who introduced
Amy to hard drugs.

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He admitted that in an
East London hotel room,

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he was smoking a
10-pound batch of heroin

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when he let Amy have a try.

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- I've said it before,
and I'll say it again.

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He was responsible for
introducing Amy to hard drugs.

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Everybody knows this,
Amy's told me this.

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The whole world knows it.

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The only people that think
it was the other way around

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was Blake's parents.

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Let's be honest about it.

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We all know what the
true situation is.

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- Amy's friends and
family have blamed Blake

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for introducing
her to hard drugs.

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But, every addict is
introduced by someone.

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And ultimately, Amy
continued to take drugs.

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She seemed to have a very
addictive personality.

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And it seemed that they could,
and they both said as much,

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they couldn't be
with each other,

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they couldn't be
without each other.

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They almost loved too much.

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- Blake's own mother,
Georgette Fielder Civil,

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even partly blames
him for Amy's decline,

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because of course
he was a big factor

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in getting her hooked on drugs.

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However, can you
actually blame someone

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for another person's addiction?

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Probably not.

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But what Blake did was make
drugs, hard-core drugs,

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crack cocaine an everyday part
of his relationship with Amy.

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And that became everyday
life for her, very quickly.

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She had a very
addictive personality.

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- An addictive personality,
or a person who is addicted,

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is someone whose behavior
is outside of their

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conscious control, that it
feels like an involuntary urge

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just to do something, and
you'll notice that addictions

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get transmitted
from one substance

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or one behavior to another.

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So, for example, people can
become addicted to alcohol.

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They'll move from
alcohol to heroin.

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Or they might then
clean up when it comes

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to alcohol and heroin, and then
they'll be addicted to porn.

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Or they'll be
addicted to shopping,

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or then they might be
addicted to gambling.

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What it is, it's an overactivity

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in the reward
centers of the brain,

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so the brain is craving
more and more of the feeling

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that the drugs and the
addiction gave them.

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But if they stop one addiction,

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they need to move on to another.

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So it has a very
sad physiological

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as well as a
psychological basis,

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which is why addicts will
transfer their addiction

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from one substance to
another quite easily

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or one behavior pattern
to another quite easily.

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And after a while, of
course, like anything else,

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we are creatures of habit.

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And those habits
can be hardwired.

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In the same way as a species
we're hardwired for pleasure.

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So we're hardwired
to want to activate

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the reward centers in our brain.

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But all that happens with
say the opioids like heroin,

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all that happens,
we overstimulate
the reward centers,

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and then we need more and more
and more of that stimulation

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as the brain produces
less and less dopamine.

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We need more and more
drugs to give ourselves

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the feeling that we've lost.

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- After a few years
focusing on her relationship

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with Blake, Amy
took to the studio

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to work on her second album.

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Alongside this, Amy started
looking at changing her image

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to something that was
much more classical

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but also helped her stand out

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compared to everyone
else in the industry.

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- There's no question that
the Ronettes in particular

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but many of the girl groups
influenced Amy Winehouse's

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music and look.

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Just picking up the tabloids
and looking at pictures of her,

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I was struck at how much she
resembled Ronnie Spector.

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A lot of the women back in
those days had that haircut,

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the beehive haircut
which is also known

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as the B-52, hence
the name of the group.

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I think when you adapt
that kind of a haircut

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that was at the time,
and really now so wildly

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out of fashion, that
you're making a statement

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and you're making a reference.

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There's no question a cultural
reference is being made,

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and when you listen to
her music you can hear it.

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But the strength of it
isn't that she just did it,

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it's why she did it.

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It's because she's looking for
something and she's not gonna

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stop looking till she finds it.

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And it takes the strength of
a certain kind of an artist

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to go, I'll go with
something that's not the most

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fashionable thing right now.

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1960s girl groups from the
Brill Building in New York City,

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and I'll adapt that to
my own personal style.

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It wasn't something that
was currently in fashion.

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The point of Amy Winehouse
is, she's such a strong artist

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she made it a fashion, and I
think that's the whole point

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of her look and her sound
with that kind of Chiffons,

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Shirelles, Ronettes thing.

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That's the whole point,
she made it her own.

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She didn't just take from
them and imitate them.

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She made it her own.

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- In May 2006,
Winehouse's demo tracks,

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such as You Know I'm
No Good and Rehab,

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appeared on Mark Ronson's New
York East Village radio show.

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Ronson would later go on to
co-produce Amy's upcoming album.

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- He really liked Amy.

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The moment they met, he
thought, here's a girl

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who's not gonna
take any nonsense,

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she knows what she wants.

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And he loved her, he said,
because when she didn't think

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he was being great,
when his results weren't

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fantastic, she told him.

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And it worked for them.

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That honesty brought
them together and created

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absolute dynamite, electricity.

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He polished her songs for
Back to Black, perfected them.

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And even the harshest
critics have said

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they drew on so many influences

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while still being
completely original.

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And that's impossible
to do, they did it.

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- In October
2006, Amy Winehouse releases

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her most successful album ever,

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and one of the biggest-selling
albums of the 21st century.

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Back to Black.

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- Back to Black is a
modern masterpiece.

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Absolutely no doubts
about it, it will go down

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as one of the albums of
our time, absolutely.

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00:19:43,975 --> 00:19:46,357
But of course the
inspiration behind this album

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was Blake Fielder Civil.

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And the passion that
she put into that album

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was about her passion for
Blake, and of course much of it

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00:19:54,365 --> 00:19:57,230
was about their first
breakup, which was very

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traumatic to her.

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00:19:58,369 --> 00:19:59,819
She hated the fact
that for a period

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he had another girlfriend.

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00:20:02,028 --> 00:20:06,032
And you can just tell by
the emotions in those songs

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how much Amy passionately
cared for him.

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00:20:10,174 --> 00:20:12,970
- I don't know where she
got the crazy idea to do it,

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but I suspect it goes
back to something

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00:20:14,489 --> 00:20:16,076
we mentioned earlier.

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In her family, they played
a lot of these records,

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and she appreciated the girl
groups of the early 1960s,

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and thought, I could
do something like this.

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00:20:24,533 --> 00:20:26,811
I think it does kinda go back
to her family, and it also

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00:20:26,846 --> 00:20:29,124
goes back to a certain
inner strength that she had

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to wanna change styles and
do something like that.

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00:20:31,471 --> 00:20:34,647
And credit to her, Back
to Black does even better

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than the first album, and
it really is going down

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00:20:37,546 --> 00:20:39,514
as one of those
all-time classic albums.

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00:20:42,344 --> 00:20:46,383
- What made Amy Winehouse's
music so amazing

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00:20:46,417 --> 00:20:49,800
wasn't just the fact, yeah,
she mixed jazz with soul,

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00:20:49,834 --> 00:20:53,562
with R&B, but she put so
much soul into her music.

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00:20:53,597 --> 00:20:55,184
She wrote her songs herself.

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00:20:55,219 --> 00:20:57,497
I mean, she wrote her
song, it was like putting

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00:20:57,532 --> 00:20:59,292
her blood and guts on the table.

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00:20:59,327 --> 00:21:01,432
And that's what
made her so special.

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00:21:01,467 --> 00:21:06,057
That this is not like some
kind of manufactured pop.

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00:21:06,092 --> 00:21:08,543
This is somebody who
writes from the heart,

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00:21:08,577 --> 00:21:12,167
who sings from the heart,
who performs for the heart.

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00:21:12,201 --> 00:21:16,482
- Every song she writes is
like dragged out of her soul.

436
00:21:16,516 --> 00:21:18,587
It's like cutting her leg
off or something like that.

437
00:21:18,622 --> 00:21:22,522
It's very, very hard for
her, and very emotional.

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00:21:22,557 --> 00:21:25,145
But that's what makes
her music so great.

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00:21:26,354 --> 00:21:28,390
- Winehouse's
tempestuous relationship

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00:21:28,425 --> 00:21:30,496
with Blake was the catalyst

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00:21:30,530 --> 00:21:32,946
for much of her
destructive behavior.

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00:21:32,981 --> 00:21:36,053
During one breakup, Winehouse
admitted to drowning

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00:21:36,087 --> 00:21:38,435
her sorrows in alcohol,
but she used the heartbreak

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as impetus in writing music.

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00:21:41,196 --> 00:21:44,544
Her drug and alcohol intake
increasingly affected

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00:21:44,579 --> 00:21:48,134
her live performances, as
she turned up to several club

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or TV performances too
drunk to complete her set.

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00:21:52,138 --> 00:21:55,106
Her management company
suggested she enter rehab,

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00:21:55,141 --> 00:21:57,246
but rather than
take their advice,

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she dumped the management
company and turned

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the experience into the
catchiest song of her career.

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♪ I ain't got the time

453
00:22:07,222 --> 00:22:10,294
♪ And if my daddy
thinks I'm fine ♪

454
00:22:10,329 --> 00:22:13,228
♪ They tried to make
me go to rehab ♪

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00:22:13,262 --> 00:22:16,162
♪ I won't go go go

456
00:22:16,645 --> 00:22:18,509
- Could you
tell me, how long did it take

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00:22:18,544 --> 00:22:19,717
you to write Rehab and what was

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00:22:19,752 --> 00:22:20,891
the inspiration for the song?

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00:22:20,925 --> 00:22:22,755
- I wrote Rehab in
about 20 minutes,

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00:22:22,789 --> 00:22:26,137
and it was just, I
wrote it about something

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00:22:26,172 --> 00:22:27,967
that happened to me.

462
00:22:28,001 --> 00:22:30,452
It wrote itself, it was
just a novelty song,

463
00:22:30,487 --> 00:22:32,730
but it's true, it's something
that happened to me.

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00:22:32,765 --> 00:22:35,354
And I guess it pretty
much wrote itself.

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00:22:35,388 --> 00:22:39,427
- Rehab is sadly,
and understandably,

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00:22:39,461 --> 00:22:42,153
one of Amy Winehouse's
signature songs now.

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00:22:42,188 --> 00:22:45,122
It's one of the songs
she's most remembered for.

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00:22:45,156 --> 00:22:47,262
I might be in a party of
one, but I can hardly stand

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00:22:47,296 --> 00:22:50,092
to hear it, and I can hardly
stand to watch the video.

470
00:22:50,127 --> 00:22:53,889
The irony of this young lady
singing about I don't wanna

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00:22:53,924 --> 00:22:56,651
go to rehab, when at the
end of the day, we now know

472
00:22:56,685 --> 00:22:58,963
that if there is anyone
that ever should have gone

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00:22:58,998 --> 00:23:01,103
to rehab, it's Amy Winehouse.

474
00:23:01,138 --> 00:23:05,073
It's easy to have perfect
vision with hindsight,

475
00:23:05,107 --> 00:23:08,870
but there's a theory I've got
that goes roughly like this.

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00:23:08,904 --> 00:23:11,182
Everybody under 30
thinks they're badass.

477
00:23:11,217 --> 00:23:13,288
Everyone under 30
wants to be badass.

478
00:23:13,322 --> 00:23:17,465
We all leave that as we
grow into adults and mature.

479
00:23:18,776 --> 00:23:20,502
Everybody under
30 thinks they're

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00:23:20,537 --> 00:23:23,056
indestructible, invincible.

481
00:23:23,091 --> 00:23:26,681
Now we've all had friends that
have died in a horrible way,

482
00:23:26,715 --> 00:23:29,304
maybe cancer too soon or maybe

483
00:23:29,338 --> 00:23:32,618
the tragedy of a drug
overdose or alcoholism.

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00:23:32,652 --> 00:23:35,862
It's in so many families,
too many families,

485
00:23:35,897 --> 00:23:38,071
and yet it can't happen to me.

486
00:23:38,106 --> 00:23:42,006
And when I look at Rehab,
I see a young lady singing

487
00:23:42,041 --> 00:23:45,078
a catchy pop tune
about the perfectly,

488
00:23:46,494 --> 00:23:50,877
most incredibly wrong subject
she could ever sing about,

489
00:23:50,912 --> 00:23:52,776
coming from where she stands.

490
00:23:52,810 --> 00:23:55,779
And I just can't look at
Rehab and Amy Winehouse

491
00:23:55,813 --> 00:23:58,264
in that video, I can't
listen to it anymore.

492
00:23:58,298 --> 00:24:00,922
As much as I like her as an
artist and enjoy her music,

493
00:24:00,956 --> 00:24:02,337
I can't stand it anymore.

494
00:24:02,371 --> 00:24:05,064
It's the irony and the tragedy,

495
00:24:05,098 --> 00:24:06,962
they're just piled
on top of each other

496
00:24:06,997 --> 00:24:09,378
and it makes me wanna
weep, so I shut it off.

497
00:24:11,898 --> 00:24:14,556
- As her fame
grow, so did speculation

498
00:24:14,591 --> 00:24:17,110
in the press about
her lifestyle.

499
00:24:17,145 --> 00:24:20,873
Her relationship with Blake
was under constant turmoil.

500
00:24:20,907 --> 00:24:24,532
And because of it, she continued
to drink and take drugs.

501
00:24:24,566 --> 00:24:27,500
The pressure of constantly
being in the public eye

502
00:24:27,535 --> 00:24:30,089
also caused Amy to
distance herself

503
00:24:30,123 --> 00:24:34,473
from her friends and loved
ones, most notably Mark Ronson.

504
00:24:35,681 --> 00:24:37,579
- Along the way, Mark
Ronson really tried

505
00:24:37,614 --> 00:24:39,098
to help Amy Winehouse.

506
00:24:39,132 --> 00:24:40,893
It wasn't just that
they worked together.

507
00:24:40,927 --> 00:24:45,035
He viewed her as a personal
friend, they got on very well.

508
00:24:45,069 --> 00:24:47,900
Actually, everyone,
fans, critics,

509
00:24:47,934 --> 00:24:50,385
were really excited when
Mark Ronson announced

510
00:24:50,419 --> 00:24:52,767
he was getting into
the studio to record

511
00:24:52,801 --> 00:24:56,460
the lead song for Quantum
of Solace, the Bond film.

512
00:24:56,495 --> 00:24:58,773
She'd be perfect at
it, the big booming

513
00:24:58,807 --> 00:25:03,812
Shirley Bassey-esque voice but
done in Amy Winehouse style.

514
00:25:04,986 --> 00:25:07,160
But when she turned up,
the drink, the drugs

515
00:25:07,195 --> 00:25:09,680
affected her performance,
she couldn't perform.

516
00:25:09,715 --> 00:25:11,337
He was heartbroken.

517
00:25:11,371 --> 00:25:14,616
If there was a way of piecing
it together, he would have.

518
00:25:14,651 --> 00:25:18,102
He took to Twitter to talk
about it, just explain,

519
00:25:18,137 --> 00:25:19,621
didn't say anything nasty.

520
00:25:19,656 --> 00:25:24,108
Amy took real offense at
this, and gave him a concise,

521
00:25:24,143 --> 00:25:29,182
nasty tweet back saying,
look, you produced one album,

522
00:25:29,217 --> 00:25:33,324
mine, that I wrote, how dare
you piggyback on my fame?

523
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,638
You're not gonna make your
career outta me, Bruv, she said.

524
00:25:36,673 --> 00:25:40,677
He was devastated,
because it was like he was

525
00:25:40,711 --> 00:25:43,714
being cut off from
one of the best people

526
00:25:43,749 --> 00:25:45,992
he'd worked with,
but a great friend.

527
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,618
He had to think, though,
well, the girl's ill.

528
00:25:50,652 --> 00:25:53,068
And I don't think that
it actually affected

529
00:25:53,103 --> 00:25:55,795
the way he thought of her in
the end, because when Amy died

530
00:25:55,830 --> 00:25:59,627
he said, I've lost
my little sister.

531
00:25:59,661 --> 00:26:02,802
- If you look at the way that
Amy dealt with Mark Ronson,

532
00:26:02,837 --> 00:26:04,390
I mean, that's typical really

533
00:26:05,874 --> 00:26:09,188
of any addict, because, you
know, there's the famous song,

534
00:26:09,222 --> 00:26:11,777
You Always Hurt
the Ones You Love.

535
00:26:11,811 --> 00:26:15,194
And with an addict,
they always hurt,

536
00:26:15,228 --> 00:26:17,886
they hurt themselves far more
than they hurt anybody else,

537
00:26:17,921 --> 00:26:19,163
but they always hurt
the ones they love,

538
00:26:19,198 --> 00:26:22,719
because most addicts
are covered with guilt

539
00:26:22,753 --> 00:26:27,758
or shame or they feel, they
judge themselves very harshly

540
00:26:28,897 --> 00:26:30,140
but then they resent
others for judging them.

541
00:26:30,174 --> 00:26:32,763
They withdraw from
social contact.

542
00:26:32,798 --> 00:26:36,905
They feel sometimes incredibly
hostile towards people

543
00:26:36,940 --> 00:26:38,942
who are simply
trying to help them.

544
00:26:38,976 --> 00:26:42,773
And that's just part of
what it is to be an addict.

545
00:26:42,808 --> 00:26:45,051
There is no doubt that
Amy and Mark Ronson

546
00:26:45,086 --> 00:26:48,158
had a great connection, and
sometimes when you're dealing

547
00:26:48,192 --> 00:26:50,539
with any statement
made by an addict,

548
00:26:50,574 --> 00:26:53,681
you've first of all
gotta separate the
drug from the person.

549
00:26:53,715 --> 00:26:56,649
Because, behind all the
drugs, there is a person,

550
00:26:56,684 --> 00:26:58,375
and you've gotta
understand who's speaking.

551
00:26:58,409 --> 00:27:00,895
Is it the drug speaking, or
is it the person speaking?

552
00:27:00,929 --> 00:27:03,069
And I believe that Mark
Ronson was not only

553
00:27:03,104 --> 00:27:06,625
obviously great for Amy
Winehouse, and they had

554
00:27:06,659 --> 00:27:10,214
a very close bond, but I
also believe that when she

555
00:27:10,249 --> 00:27:13,735
attacked Mark Ronson,
deep down, she loved him

556
00:27:13,770 --> 00:27:15,116
and she felt very
connected to him.

557
00:27:15,150 --> 00:27:17,049
And that's the drugs speaking.

558
00:27:17,083 --> 00:27:19,948
On the deluxe version I
think it is of Back to Black,

559
00:27:19,983 --> 00:27:23,296
she does an additional version
of Love Is a Losing Game.

560
00:27:24,435 --> 00:27:27,473
And again, she sings
that with so much heart

561
00:27:27,507 --> 00:27:31,132
and so much soul, and then
when the song's finished,

562
00:27:32,305 --> 00:27:34,411
she turns around at the
end, there's a pause

563
00:27:34,445 --> 00:27:37,138
and you hear her say,
Is that all right?

564
00:27:37,172 --> 00:27:41,280
And, you can see in
that both her brilliance

565
00:27:41,314 --> 00:27:43,144
and her insecurity.

566
00:27:43,178 --> 00:27:45,456
She's just done something
totally incredible,

567
00:27:45,491 --> 00:27:47,493
totally magical, she's done
a rendition of this song

568
00:27:47,527 --> 00:27:51,048
that could move a
stone statue to tears.

569
00:27:51,083 --> 00:27:53,568
She's really delivered this,

570
00:27:53,602 --> 00:27:54,880
and then she goes,
Is that all right?

571
00:27:54,914 --> 00:27:57,192
Because she needed the
approval of others.

572
00:27:57,227 --> 00:28:00,299
She was incredibly, and when
she was performing onstage,

573
00:28:00,333 --> 00:28:03,302
she was sometimes looking for
reassurance from the band.

574
00:28:03,336 --> 00:28:06,408
Sometimes people who are
brilliant sometimes don't

575
00:28:06,443 --> 00:28:08,031
realize quite how
brilliant they are,

576
00:28:08,065 --> 00:28:12,829
and Amy was one of those, and
perhaps it was her brilliance

577
00:28:13,726 --> 00:28:15,590
in some ways, in coping with
that brilliance and the effect

578
00:28:15,624 --> 00:28:18,075
of that brilliance that
drove her to addiction.

579
00:28:18,110 --> 00:28:21,527
♪ Love is a losing game

580
00:28:31,330 --> 00:28:33,539
- Is that all right?

581
00:28:36,749 --> 00:28:38,337
♪ I never played

582
00:28:38,371 --> 00:28:43,376
♪ Oh what a mess we made

583
00:28:44,999 --> 00:28:48,865
♪ And now the final frame

584
00:28:48,899 --> 00:28:51,315
♪ Love

585
00:28:51,350 --> 00:28:53,490
- Some musicians,
I'm the kind of person

586
00:28:53,524 --> 00:28:56,148
that I like pressure, I
work best under pressure

587
00:28:56,182 --> 00:28:58,633
and there's a bunch
of people like that,

588
00:28:58,667 --> 00:29:00,531
but it must be a bit
nerve-wracking like,

589
00:29:00,566 --> 00:29:02,948
I won the Mercury, I
have to be consistent.

590
00:29:02,982 --> 00:29:05,674
But you can't think
about that, I'm sure.

591
00:29:08,401 --> 00:29:12,164
- In 2007, Amy
and Blake set out to Miami

592
00:29:12,198 --> 00:29:14,753
to have a relaxing,
romantic getaway

593
00:29:14,787 --> 00:29:17,169
from the endless
media attention.

594
00:29:17,203 --> 00:29:19,688
It was here where the
two got secretly married,

595
00:29:19,723 --> 00:29:21,725
once again shocking journalists,

596
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,623
Amy's friends and her family.

597
00:29:26,454 --> 00:29:28,145
- There is no doubt
that the relationship

598
00:29:28,180 --> 00:29:31,804
between Amy Winehouse and Blake

599
00:29:31,839 --> 00:29:33,392
was a codependent relationship.

600
00:29:33,426 --> 00:29:36,878
And what that means
in practical terms

601
00:29:36,913 --> 00:29:40,882
was that each one of
them needed the other one

602
00:29:40,917 --> 00:29:43,782
to continue their dependency

603
00:29:43,816 --> 00:29:46,301
on a very destructive
behavior pattern.

604
00:29:46,336 --> 00:29:48,096
That's essentially
what it means.

605
00:29:48,131 --> 00:29:50,650
Rather than the two of
them connecting to build

606
00:29:50,685 --> 00:29:53,688
a better life together
or to start a family

607
00:29:53,722 --> 00:29:55,310
or two envisage your
future together,

608
00:29:55,345 --> 00:29:59,107
what they're doing is they're
taking the harsher edges

609
00:29:59,142 --> 00:30:01,523
and the more addictive edges
of each other's personality

610
00:30:01,558 --> 00:30:02,973
and they're fixing on those.

611
00:30:03,008 --> 00:30:05,217
And each one of
them needs the other

612
00:30:05,251 --> 00:30:07,633
to sustain their destructive
behavior pattern.

613
00:30:08,634 --> 00:30:09,980
- They say
the best things are born

614
00:30:10,015 --> 00:30:11,326
of kind of destructive
relationships.

615
00:30:11,361 --> 00:30:12,603
Now you're a happily
married woman,

616
00:30:12,638 --> 00:30:15,779
what can we expect from
you song writing wise?

617
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:17,194
Happy songs?

618
00:30:17,229 --> 00:30:19,507
- Yeah yeah, happy songs,
Care Bears, theme change.

619
00:30:19,541 --> 00:30:20,749
- Your
dad said he was unhappy

620
00:30:20,784 --> 00:30:22,061
he didn't walk you
down the aisle.

621
00:30:22,096 --> 00:30:23,511
Are you gonna have another
do here in England?

622
00:30:23,545 --> 00:30:25,478
- Definitely will, definitely
do something proper.

623
00:30:25,513 --> 00:30:26,617
Definitely.

624
00:30:26,652 --> 00:30:27,895
- Was he
angry with you, was he okay?

625
00:30:27,929 --> 00:30:28,861
- No, he's fine, he's fine.

626
00:30:28,896 --> 00:30:29,828
What's he gonna do?

627
00:30:31,105 --> 00:30:33,141
After returning
from their Miami trip,

628
00:30:33,176 --> 00:30:36,351
Amy went back to performing
onstage and attending

629
00:30:36,386 --> 00:30:40,666
regular award shows looking
fresh-faced and revitalized.

630
00:30:41,874 --> 00:30:43,324
- Are there
some people you've picked out

631
00:30:43,358 --> 00:30:44,877
that you wanna go
and shat to later?

632
00:30:44,912 --> 00:30:46,327
- I'd love to go and
meet Quincy Jones.

633
00:30:46,361 --> 00:30:48,018
I've got to find Mick Jones.

634
00:30:48,053 --> 00:30:49,537
I was really chucked
to see him here.

635
00:30:49,571 --> 00:30:51,919
I love Mick Jones,
he's a legend.

636
00:30:53,610 --> 00:30:54,887
Oh yes.

637
00:30:54,922 --> 00:30:56,061
So yeah, I'm sure
there's lots of people

638
00:30:56,095 --> 00:30:57,510
I don't even know are here.

639
00:30:58,926 --> 00:31:00,997
- But unfortunately,
it was around this time

640
00:31:01,031 --> 00:31:03,102
where her relationship
with the press

641
00:31:03,137 --> 00:31:05,311
became increasingly heated.

642
00:31:05,346 --> 00:31:08,970
With new stories about her
releasing almost every day,

643
00:31:09,005 --> 00:31:12,560
Amy's changing personality
was really starting to show

644
00:31:12,594 --> 00:31:14,148
during her interviews.

645
00:31:15,494 --> 00:31:17,737
- Amy's relationship with
the press really changed

646
00:31:17,772 --> 00:31:22,294
from a cheerful girl who
was very open and loving,

647
00:31:23,191 --> 00:31:24,503
because she had nothing to hide.

648
00:31:24,537 --> 00:31:25,538
This was all new to her.

649
00:31:25,573 --> 00:31:27,437
This was an amazing experience.

650
00:31:27,471 --> 00:31:29,301
It's what she always wanted.

651
00:31:29,335 --> 00:31:31,579
- I've worked really hard,
and I've been recognized

652
00:31:31,613 --> 00:31:32,787
for that with the nomination.

653
00:31:32,821 --> 00:31:35,169
That's such an amazing thing.

654
00:31:35,203 --> 00:31:37,516
I feel real proud
of myself for that,

655
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,381
and lucky.

656
00:31:40,415 --> 00:31:42,176
- She became more closed
when she had more to hide,

657
00:31:42,210 --> 00:31:45,904
when her management said to
her, Do not talk to press.

658
00:31:45,938 --> 00:31:47,284
She was out of it.

659
00:31:47,319 --> 00:31:50,978
So she could have told any
journalist a fantastic story,

660
00:31:51,012 --> 00:31:53,532
and increasingly she would
have more and more people

661
00:31:53,566 --> 00:31:57,156
around her when she
was out and about,

662
00:31:57,191 --> 00:32:00,953
trying to stop her from giving
people what they wanted.

663
00:32:00,988 --> 00:32:02,955
- You know, you're standing
on this young lady's foot?

664
00:32:02,990 --> 00:32:04,267
Have you noticed that?

665
00:32:04,301 --> 00:32:06,269
- She's
not young, and I wasn't.

666
00:32:06,303 --> 00:32:08,823
- Amy, so many
songs come out of bad times--

667
00:32:08,857 --> 00:32:11,067
- Can you hear him,
rude, you were.

668
00:32:11,101 --> 00:32:13,759
- Amy, so many
songs come out of bad times

669
00:32:13,793 --> 00:32:14,967
in life, the creative
processs is often motivated

670
00:32:15,002 --> 00:32:16,175
from the bad times.

671
00:32:16,210 --> 00:32:17,901
Now you're a happily
married woman,

672
00:32:17,936 --> 00:32:20,490
are you worried about it
impacting your career?

673
00:32:20,524 --> 00:32:22,733
- No, not really.

674
00:32:22,768 --> 00:32:27,083
- People generally are
appreciative of her,

675
00:32:27,117 --> 00:32:30,534
and they love her, and she
likes to be with people.

676
00:32:31,777 --> 00:32:33,779
But what can it be
for a young woman

677
00:32:33,813 --> 00:32:36,920
who really can't leave her house

678
00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:38,577
without the fear
of being hounded?

679
00:32:38,611 --> 00:32:40,096
It's very, very difficult.

680
00:32:40,130 --> 00:32:43,064
It's very, very difficult,
and I can't imagine

681
00:32:43,099 --> 00:32:44,514
what it's like for her.

682
00:32:44,548 --> 00:32:46,033
- She's almost
a prisoner in her own home.

683
00:32:46,067 --> 00:32:51,072
- Well I would say she is
a prisoner in her own home,

684
00:32:52,142 --> 00:32:53,523
for want of a better phrase.

685
00:32:53,557 --> 00:32:55,456
Although she can go out, she's
not restricted in any way.

686
00:32:55,490 --> 00:32:57,251
If she wants to go
out, she can go out,

687
00:32:57,285 --> 00:32:59,874
but it's difficult and she would
think twice about going out

688
00:32:59,908 --> 00:33:02,773
now without bodyguards,
and what's that all about?

689
00:33:05,328 --> 00:33:09,263
With all the success, you know,

690
00:33:09,297 --> 00:33:11,092
there isn't a peace of
mind and there isn't

691
00:33:11,127 --> 00:33:14,923
any kind of relaxation, and
I'm not talking about Amy,

692
00:33:14,958 --> 00:33:18,927
but you can understand why
people in that position

693
00:33:18,962 --> 00:33:23,760
do turn to alternative means
of relaxation unfortunately.

694
00:33:25,210 --> 00:33:28,489
- That following
year, whilst in Bergen, Norway,

695
00:33:28,523 --> 00:33:30,974
Amy, Blake and a friend
were all arrested

696
00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:34,253
at their hotel for
marijuana possession.

697
00:33:34,288 --> 00:33:39,224
They were found with seven grams
and were fined 715 dollars.

698
00:33:39,258 --> 00:33:43,055
Soon after this event, Blake
was sentenced to 27 months

699
00:33:43,090 --> 00:33:46,679
in jail for his part in
an assault on a bar owner

700
00:33:46,714 --> 00:33:48,440
and a subsequent
attempt to cover up

701
00:33:48,474 --> 00:33:50,097
the crime with a bribe.

702
00:33:51,339 --> 00:33:53,134
- He's made a good
effort in prison.

703
00:33:53,169 --> 00:33:54,515
It's been hard for him.

704
00:33:54,549 --> 00:33:57,759
He's made an effort, and
he's been mainly successful,

705
00:33:57,794 --> 00:33:59,071
but I don't think
he's clean now,

706
00:33:59,106 --> 00:34:01,349
and when he comes out,
he needs and will go

707
00:34:01,384 --> 00:34:02,937
straight into rehab.

708
00:34:02,971 --> 00:34:06,665
He has promised me that
he's gonna make that right,

709
00:34:06,699 --> 00:34:08,908
and I'm gonna give him a
chance to make it right.

710
00:34:08,943 --> 00:34:11,118
But you know, we're gonna give
him the benefit of the doubt.

711
00:34:11,152 --> 00:34:13,361
The first thing he's gotta
do is he's gotta get himself

712
00:34:13,396 --> 00:34:16,192
clean, because if he goes
back into the relationship

713
00:34:16,226 --> 00:34:20,472
with Amy not clean,
it's gonna be

714
00:34:20,506 --> 00:34:22,336
a complete recipe for disaster.

715
00:34:22,370 --> 00:34:23,958
He knows what he's got to do.

716
00:34:24,959 --> 00:34:26,305
He loves Amy dearly.

717
00:34:26,340 --> 00:34:28,480
She loves him dearly.

718
00:34:28,514 --> 00:34:33,001
And, as a family, we wanna
do what's best for Amy.

719
00:34:34,175 --> 00:34:36,177
I think that they can
have a happy ending.

720
00:34:38,110 --> 00:34:40,492
- Going
into 2008 saw Amy

721
00:34:40,526 --> 00:34:43,081
at the lowest point
in her whole career.

722
00:34:43,115 --> 00:34:46,912
In January, a video surfaced
of Amy smoking crack.

723
00:34:48,431 --> 00:34:51,123
- I think one of Amy's
all-time career lows was when

724
00:34:51,158 --> 00:34:55,576
a newspaper in the UK actually
filmed and then broadcast

725
00:34:55,610 --> 00:34:59,097
video of Amy taking crack
cocaine, and everyone knew

726
00:34:59,131 --> 00:35:01,064
just how bad things had got.

727
00:35:01,099 --> 00:35:04,861
Ironically, as well, Blake,
who was meant to be the love

728
00:35:04,895 --> 00:35:07,139
of her life and who
was in many ways,

729
00:35:07,174 --> 00:35:09,728
sold his story
many times on Amy.

730
00:35:09,762 --> 00:35:12,144
He was so desperate for
money he'd make a couple

731
00:35:12,179 --> 00:35:13,939
of thousand pounds
here and there

732
00:35:13,973 --> 00:35:17,529
for spilling the most
intimate details of her life.

733
00:35:17,563 --> 00:35:20,394
Now in most normal relationships
that would be the end

734
00:35:20,428 --> 00:35:23,155
of it, but Amy always
ran back to Blake

735
00:35:23,190 --> 00:35:24,363
no matter what he did.

736
00:35:25,847 --> 00:35:28,160
- Weeks later,
she checks into rehab.

737
00:35:28,195 --> 00:35:31,370
But even though her
drug addiction is
finally being treated,

738
00:35:31,405 --> 00:35:34,856
another troubling
problem becomes clear.

739
00:35:34,891 --> 00:35:39,067
- The photos we would get
in of Amy on a weekly basis

740
00:35:39,102 --> 00:35:42,588
during the real depths of her
drug addiction relationship

741
00:35:42,623 --> 00:35:45,073
with Blake were just
traumatic, and I think nothing

742
00:35:45,108 --> 00:35:48,146
was more traumatic than
the photo of Amy's ballet

743
00:35:48,180 --> 00:35:50,941
pump shoes covered in blood.

744
00:35:50,976 --> 00:35:53,979
Most people believe that that
was because she had actually

745
00:35:54,013 --> 00:35:57,465
been injecting heroin
between her toes.

746
00:35:57,500 --> 00:36:01,538
It was grim, it was awful,
and here was this icon

747
00:36:01,573 --> 00:36:04,231
of our times, reduced to that.

748
00:36:06,129 --> 00:36:09,063
- Amy had
also been self-harming.

749
00:36:09,097 --> 00:36:13,032
A number of cuts appeared
prominent on both of her arms.

750
00:36:13,067 --> 00:36:17,209
Addressing the tender subject,
Amy stated that self-harm

751
00:36:17,244 --> 00:36:20,212
to her started as
a morbid curiosity

752
00:36:20,247 --> 00:36:23,181
but became a way for her
to deal with her stress.

753
00:36:23,215 --> 00:36:26,701
Her self-destructive
tendencies only amplified

754
00:36:26,736 --> 00:36:29,221
when she became intoxicated.

755
00:36:29,256 --> 00:36:30,774
- Self-harm is a
complex phenomenon.

756
00:36:30,809 --> 00:36:33,674
It's estimated that one
in 15 teenage girls,

757
00:36:33,708 --> 00:36:36,918
sometimes more,
actually self-harm to
some degree or other.

758
00:36:36,953 --> 00:36:41,026
Now, if you imagine sometimes,
when we get something wrong,

759
00:36:41,060 --> 00:36:42,752
we sometimes beat ourselves
up, we sometimes say, Oh God,

760
00:36:42,786 --> 00:36:44,340
if only I'd done better,
if only I'd done this,

761
00:36:44,374 --> 00:36:45,962
if only I'd done that.

762
00:36:45,996 --> 00:36:47,688
Well self-harming begins
from a position very often

763
00:36:47,722 --> 00:36:51,105
of low self-esteem, of
some trauma, some pain,

764
00:36:51,139 --> 00:36:54,419
and rather than try and deal
with the trauma or manage

765
00:36:54,453 --> 00:36:56,593
the pain, because maybe the
support network isn't there,

766
00:36:56,628 --> 00:36:58,250
because the emotional
maturity isn't there,

767
00:36:58,285 --> 00:37:00,528
because the emotional
tools aren't there,

768
00:37:00,563 --> 00:37:02,841
people go into a
cycle of self-harm.

769
00:37:02,875 --> 00:37:07,294
Because by self-harming,
they're doing two things really.

770
00:37:07,328 --> 00:37:09,296
On the one hand, they're
exerting some control

771
00:37:09,330 --> 00:37:13,161
over the problem, because at
least if they're self-harming

772
00:37:13,196 --> 00:37:14,922
it's something they are
doing to themselves.

773
00:37:14,956 --> 00:37:16,406
It gives them some
control over a problem

774
00:37:16,441 --> 00:37:18,270
that they feel they
have no control over.

775
00:37:18,305 --> 00:37:20,721
And the other aspect of
self-harm, of course, is it

776
00:37:20,755 --> 00:37:23,620
does numb the pain that
actually drove them

777
00:37:23,655 --> 00:37:26,209
to start self-harming
in the first place.

778
00:37:26,244 --> 00:37:28,315
So for example, some people
who have been sexually abused

779
00:37:28,349 --> 00:37:30,351
will self-harm, or some people
who've gone through some

780
00:37:30,386 --> 00:37:33,043
trauma as children,
they'll begin to self-harm.

781
00:37:33,078 --> 00:37:36,115
It's just another strategy to
ease the pain, and that too

782
00:37:36,150 --> 00:37:38,325
can become a compulsive
behavior pattern,

783
00:37:38,359 --> 00:37:40,292
just like any other addiction.

784
00:37:40,327 --> 00:37:42,950
- When Amy was self-harming,
and that happened

785
00:37:42,984 --> 00:37:45,124
when she was in her
relationship with Blake,

786
00:37:45,159 --> 00:37:48,093
and at times they even
appeared to do it together.

787
00:37:48,127 --> 00:37:52,166
That was, for me, one of
the most unsavory parts

788
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,342
of her decline,
because you just knew

789
00:37:55,376 --> 00:37:58,897
something was really, really
wrong to be doing that.

790
00:37:58,931 --> 00:38:01,555
I mean, she was just married,
she was with the guy,

791
00:38:01,589 --> 00:38:04,523
she had all the success
she wanted in the world,

792
00:38:04,558 --> 00:38:05,973
so why was she self-harming?

793
00:38:06,007 --> 00:38:08,216
It just, it made no sense.

794
00:38:10,218 --> 00:38:12,497
In the end, the record
company just gave up

795
00:38:12,531 --> 00:38:14,084
on Amy in a lot of ways.

796
00:38:14,119 --> 00:38:16,673
They didn't wanna put any
pressure on her to release

797
00:38:16,708 --> 00:38:18,744
a third album or to
record a third album,

798
00:38:18,779 --> 00:38:21,402
because they knew how
emotionally vulnerable

799
00:38:21,437 --> 00:38:24,129
and fragile she was, so
actually, because I think

800
00:38:24,163 --> 00:38:26,165
they felt the stakes were
so high, Back to Black

801
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,961
was such a brilliant record,
they weren't gonna release

802
00:38:28,996 --> 00:38:31,964
something until they
knew it was spot on.

803
00:38:33,241 --> 00:38:35,209
- It was also
clear that Amy was becoming

804
00:38:35,243 --> 00:38:37,556
worryingly skinny and frail.

805
00:38:37,591 --> 00:38:41,560
She was suffering from a tragic
eating disorder, bulimia.

806
00:38:41,595 --> 00:38:44,563
This, combined with her
dangerous binge-drinking habits

807
00:38:44,598 --> 00:38:47,186
and drug use, meant
that Amy's body

808
00:38:47,221 --> 00:38:50,604
was being pushed to
its absolute limits.

809
00:38:50,638 --> 00:38:53,538
Late 2008, Amy made public

810
00:38:53,572 --> 00:38:55,747
she had an early
stage of emphysema.

811
00:38:56,989 --> 00:38:59,095
- It's quite shocking
that Amy was diagnosed

812
00:38:59,129 --> 00:39:03,202
with emphysema in her
mid-20s, really young.

813
00:39:03,237 --> 00:39:08,069
And her friends said that she
could drink vodka all day.

814
00:39:08,104 --> 00:39:12,211
That combined with
medication or drugs,

815
00:39:12,246 --> 00:39:16,077
and it could just have
been a lethal cocktail.

816
00:39:16,112 --> 00:39:18,528
For a 27-year-old
girl, she looks great

817
00:39:18,563 --> 00:39:21,255
when she was able
to doll herself up,

818
00:39:22,118 --> 00:39:23,326
put on the makeup,

819
00:39:23,361 --> 00:39:25,639
but you could tell
sometimes she was very thin.

820
00:39:27,157 --> 00:39:28,780
I think the real tragedy
is that there were glimmers

821
00:39:28,814 --> 00:39:31,369
of hope, that sometimes
she did look okay,

822
00:39:31,403 --> 00:39:32,991
she was trying to write songs,

823
00:39:33,025 --> 00:39:35,096
she was able to
perform now and then.

824
00:39:35,131 --> 00:39:36,960
And that's the real tragedy,

825
00:39:36,995 --> 00:39:39,791
that we thought she
might just get there.

826
00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:42,725
- But what's interesting
and what's little understood

827
00:39:42,759 --> 00:39:44,727
really, and Amy Winehouse
made a point about this,

828
00:39:44,761 --> 00:39:46,591
she said alcohol was
worse than heroin.

829
00:39:46,625 --> 00:39:49,110
She said alcohol is a
real poison, she said.

830
00:39:49,145 --> 00:39:52,873
And if you look at the
effect both on themselves

831
00:39:52,907 --> 00:39:56,014
and on others, alcohol
is by far and away

832
00:39:56,048 --> 00:39:59,431
one of the most dangerous and
socially destructive drugs.

833
00:39:59,466 --> 00:40:02,296
It just happens to be legal,
it's an accident of history

834
00:40:02,330 --> 00:40:04,367
or whatever, it just
happens to be legal.

835
00:40:04,402 --> 00:40:06,783
So, just because a
drug's legal doesn't mean

836
00:40:06,818 --> 00:40:08,923
it's safe, it doesn't
mean it can't ravage you

837
00:40:08,958 --> 00:40:11,236
as much as the most,
supposedly, the most

838
00:40:11,270 --> 00:40:13,687
blacklisted of illegal drugs.

839
00:40:18,105 --> 00:40:20,383
- I met Mitch twice
and interviewed him

840
00:40:20,418 --> 00:40:22,074
extensively both times.

841
00:40:22,109 --> 00:40:24,663
The first was the first time
he'd actually publicly been

842
00:40:24,698 --> 00:40:29,530
interviewed, and it was when
Amy was really quite ill.

843
00:40:29,565 --> 00:40:32,533
And I said to him, it must
be heartbreaking for you

844
00:40:32,568 --> 00:40:36,882
to know that people have
almost penned her obituary,

845
00:40:36,917 --> 00:40:40,092
because they're waiting, and
he said, you know, Martel,

846
00:40:40,127 --> 00:40:42,647
it's something I've
done myself, mentally.

847
00:40:42,681 --> 00:40:45,097
I've penned her
obituary many times.

848
00:40:45,132 --> 00:40:47,479
What's tragic is that
that came to pass.

849
00:40:47,514 --> 00:40:49,101
When I interviewed
Mitch the second time,

850
00:40:49,136 --> 00:40:50,482
and he was more buoyant.

851
00:40:50,517 --> 00:40:52,484
He was talking about
Amy's boob job.

852
00:40:52,519 --> 00:40:54,900
He was talking about
her inspiration.

853
00:40:54,935 --> 00:40:58,214
Part of it came from him, he
used to sing Frank Sinatra

854
00:40:58,248 --> 00:41:02,149
songs to her, and his concern
was still there, obviously.

855
00:41:02,183 --> 00:41:05,014
His daughter was
troubled, still addicted.

856
00:41:06,153 --> 00:41:08,569
But he seemed more
hopeful than he had been

857
00:41:08,604 --> 00:41:10,329
six, seven years ago.

858
00:41:10,364 --> 00:41:12,918
- How's
Amy doing at the moment?

859
00:41:12,953 --> 00:41:15,058
- She's doing pretty good.

860
00:41:15,093 --> 00:41:17,751
I think she's made a
very good recovery.

861
00:41:17,785 --> 00:41:21,064
And clearly there's
a long way to go

862
00:41:21,099 --> 00:41:24,240
in a lotta senses,
but she's doing fine.

863
00:41:25,241 --> 00:41:26,863
- You see
her on a daily basis.

864
00:41:26,898 --> 00:41:29,141
People pick up the papers
and they see what they see.

865
00:41:29,176 --> 00:41:32,006
Tell us about the girl
you know, the girl you see

866
00:41:32,041 --> 00:41:35,147
and the person behind
the tabloid headline.

867
00:41:35,182 --> 00:41:37,598
- Well, I mean, she's
my daughter, obviously,

868
00:41:37,633 --> 00:41:41,291
and as my daughter,
I love her very much.

869
00:41:41,326 --> 00:41:44,916
And she's a great, she's
a member of our family

870
00:41:44,950 --> 00:41:46,676
and we're a very
strong family unit.

871
00:41:49,127 --> 00:41:52,889
But clearly she's in
a vulnerable condition
at the moment.

872
00:41:56,030 --> 00:41:59,551
She needs to perhaps

873
00:41:59,586 --> 00:42:03,521
be more aware of the
consequences of her
actions right now.

874
00:42:03,555 --> 00:42:06,454
- By mid-2008,
the world was moved

875
00:42:06,489 --> 00:42:10,113
by the tragic downfall of
Amy and her ongoing battle

876
00:42:10,148 --> 00:42:13,047
against addiction
and substance abuse.

877
00:42:13,082 --> 00:42:16,223
She once again went back into
rehab and this time looked

878
00:42:16,257 --> 00:42:17,949
to be trying to change her ways

879
00:42:17,983 --> 00:42:20,538
and to the help of
family and friends.

880
00:42:20,572 --> 00:42:23,195
- She recognized that
she had a problem,

881
00:42:24,162 --> 00:42:25,922
perhaps six months ago.

882
00:42:25,957 --> 00:42:29,581
She felt that whatever
she was involved with,

883
00:42:29,616 --> 00:42:31,514
the drug addiction,
she could handle it

884
00:42:31,549 --> 00:42:33,930
and she could stop it
whenever she chose.

885
00:42:33,965 --> 00:42:36,657
I mean, clearly,
she was deluded.

886
00:42:36,692 --> 00:42:40,005
That isn't the case, she can't
do that and she needs help.

887
00:42:41,351 --> 00:42:42,905
And we are guided, as I've
said many times before,

888
00:42:42,939 --> 00:42:46,529
we are guided by the most
fantastic team of physicians.

889
00:42:46,564 --> 00:42:49,394
My first reaction would
be to pick her up,

890
00:42:49,428 --> 00:42:52,190
put her somewhere safe, lock
her away until she gets better.

891
00:42:52,224 --> 00:42:55,400
She has freedom of choice
to do whatever she chooses.

892
00:42:56,574 --> 00:43:01,544
But clearly, the impetus
is moving forward

893
00:43:02,441 --> 00:43:03,684
and she's in a much
better position

894
00:43:04,582 --> 00:43:06,687
than she was six months ago.

895
00:43:06,722 --> 00:43:09,552
- Unfortunately,
because of Amy's rehab visits,

896
00:43:09,587 --> 00:43:12,348
the press were mounting
pressure on the star.

897
00:43:12,382 --> 00:43:15,144
Daily articles criticized
the star and the lack

898
00:43:15,178 --> 00:43:17,146
of responsibility of her family.

899
00:43:18,147 --> 00:43:20,114
- Well I can't imagine
that even the tabloids

900
00:43:20,149 --> 00:43:21,806
are willing her not to recover.

901
00:43:23,117 --> 00:43:26,155
Of course, there isn't a story
there if she does recover.

902
00:43:26,189 --> 00:43:27,639
I mean, clearly, there's
not much of a story

903
00:43:27,674 --> 00:43:29,192
if she gets better.

904
00:43:29,227 --> 00:43:32,575
And I've tried several times
to impart some good news

905
00:43:32,610 --> 00:43:35,509
to the tabloids, and sometimes

906
00:43:35,543 --> 00:43:37,062
they haven't really
been interested.

907
00:43:38,512 --> 00:43:40,031
But clearly, the way
things are at the moment,

908
00:43:40,065 --> 00:43:42,447
Amy's vulnerable,
she's a target.

909
00:43:42,481 --> 00:43:46,071
And people understand, they
know how the tabloids work.

910
00:43:46,106 --> 00:43:49,281
And it's not as if they have
put a bounty on her head

911
00:43:49,316 --> 00:43:52,871
and said, if you get into
an altercation with Amy

912
00:43:52,906 --> 00:43:55,736
it could be worth
five or 10,000 pounds,

913
00:43:55,771 --> 00:43:58,705
but it's kind of an unspoken,

914
00:44:00,154 --> 00:44:04,158
implicit agreement between the
tabloids and the population.

915
00:44:04,193 --> 00:44:07,230
That is, if you can rough
up a star, or better still,

916
00:44:07,265 --> 00:44:09,957
if you can get
thumped by a star,

917
00:44:09,992 --> 00:44:12,822
you're on a winner,
you're on a winner.

918
00:44:12,857 --> 00:44:14,824
And that's basically
the problem.

919
00:44:14,859 --> 00:44:18,414
- In January
2009, Amy Winehouse escapes

920
00:44:18,448 --> 00:44:20,416
the spotlight in a
two-month getaway

921
00:44:20,450 --> 00:44:24,040
on the small Caribbean
island of St. Lucia.

922
00:44:24,075 --> 00:44:27,043
When she returns to the
UK, she's looking happier

923
00:44:27,078 --> 00:44:28,735
and healthier than ever.

924
00:44:28,769 --> 00:44:31,979
There was hope that her life
was finally turning around.

925
00:44:33,049 --> 00:44:35,776
But despite getting help
for her drug addiction,

926
00:44:35,811 --> 00:44:38,158
she continued drinking heavily.

927
00:44:38,192 --> 00:44:41,126
To make things worse, after
numerous fights and arrests,

928
00:44:41,161 --> 00:44:45,165
her relationship with Blake
ends in a fiery divorce.

929
00:44:46,097 --> 00:44:47,719
- I've been away for two months.

930
00:44:47,754 --> 00:44:49,825
What the fuck is going on?

931
00:44:51,343 --> 00:44:53,932
- The point about addiction
and the point about addicts

932
00:44:53,967 --> 00:44:58,074
is that we can't separate
normal people from addicts.

933
00:44:58,109 --> 00:45:00,145
Normal people fall in love.

934
00:45:00,180 --> 00:45:03,114
Normal people have all
the rush of dopamine,

935
00:45:03,148 --> 00:45:05,081
all the pleasure chemicals
in the brain being released

936
00:45:05,116 --> 00:45:06,669
when they fall in love.

937
00:45:06,704 --> 00:45:09,051
And that's there for good
evolutionary reasons.

938
00:45:09,085 --> 00:45:10,742
That's why we reproduce,
that's why we build families,

939
00:45:10,777 --> 00:45:12,640
that's why we get married.

940
00:45:12,675 --> 00:45:15,367
It's why we find our soulmates.

941
00:45:15,402 --> 00:45:20,407
But sometimes,
sometimes, that process

942
00:45:21,373 --> 00:45:23,099
kind of gets
overwhelming for people.

943
00:45:23,134 --> 00:45:26,654
And in the case of Blake and
Amy, their addiction to drugs

944
00:45:26,689 --> 00:45:28,622
was a mirror of their
addiction to each other.

945
00:45:28,656 --> 00:45:31,521
And there's only one way
in which their personal

946
00:45:31,556 --> 00:45:34,076
relationship to drugs and
their personal relationship

947
00:45:34,110 --> 00:45:35,871
with each other could end,
and that was in destruction.

948
00:45:35,905 --> 00:45:37,493
It had to end that way,

949
00:45:37,527 --> 00:45:40,945
because they were fueling
each other's dependency,

950
00:45:40,979 --> 00:45:43,879
not only on drugs but
also on each other.

951
00:45:43,913 --> 00:45:47,123
- On top of
all that, in late 2009,

952
00:45:47,158 --> 00:45:51,714
going into 2010, Amy struggled
with several legal disputes,

953
00:45:51,749 --> 00:45:55,511
arrests and intoxicated
misdemeanors.

954
00:45:55,545 --> 00:45:58,238
Her drinking had only gotten
worse, and as a result,

955
00:45:58,272 --> 00:46:01,034
her career was
beginning to suffer.

956
00:46:01,068 --> 00:46:04,106
Family and friends once
again reached out for help,

957
00:46:04,140 --> 00:46:06,142
with big stars like Tony Bennett

958
00:46:06,177 --> 00:46:08,731
wishing her a speedy recovery.

959
00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:10,146
- I wish her the best.

960
00:46:10,181 --> 00:46:12,217
I hope that she
straightens out with that,

961
00:46:12,252 --> 00:46:15,427
and it would help
so many of her fans,

962
00:46:15,462 --> 00:46:17,844
so that she was able to do it.

963
00:46:17,878 --> 00:46:20,156
- Do you think the people
around her need to be

964
00:46:20,191 --> 00:46:22,055
stepping up really and
taking a little bit

965
00:46:22,089 --> 00:46:23,815
more control in helping her?

966
00:46:23,850 --> 00:46:25,023
- It's really up to her.

967
00:46:26,507 --> 00:46:29,925
She's gonna have to be the
one to just say wait a minute,

968
00:46:29,959 --> 00:46:33,307
because one thing about
drugs, it finally gets to you.

969
00:46:33,342 --> 00:46:36,345
You don't get to
it, it gets to you.

970
00:46:37,967 --> 00:46:41,212
- May 2011,
Amy Winehouse announces

971
00:46:41,246 --> 00:46:44,008
to the world that she
will return to rehab

972
00:46:44,042 --> 00:46:46,873
to battle her crippling
alcohol addiction.

973
00:46:46,907 --> 00:46:49,565
Just six days later,
Amy checks herself out

974
00:46:49,599 --> 00:46:53,120
of the rehab facility,
declaring that she has finished

975
00:46:53,155 --> 00:46:57,400
an assessment and is raring
to go on her European tour.

976
00:46:57,435 --> 00:47:01,991
The tour was to be
Amy's comeback to
rebuild her reputation,

977
00:47:02,026 --> 00:47:05,305
but it would prove to
do just the opposite.

978
00:47:05,339 --> 00:47:07,583
Whilst in Belgrade, Serbia,

979
00:47:07,617 --> 00:47:11,104
Amy's comeback tour
turns into a nightmare.

980
00:47:11,138 --> 00:47:14,348
Amy struggles to stand
up, slurs her words

981
00:47:14,383 --> 00:47:16,903
and doesn't even get
through a single song.

982
00:47:16,937 --> 00:47:19,215
She's too drunk to perform.

983
00:47:19,250 --> 00:47:23,081
The angered crowd boo the
27-year-old off the stage.

984
00:47:23,116 --> 00:47:26,188
And the comeback
tour is canceled.

985
00:47:26,222 --> 00:47:30,123
Amy Winehouse would never
perform onstage again.

986
00:47:34,575 --> 00:47:38,476
- This show was a complete
and utter shambles.

987
00:47:38,510 --> 00:47:40,202
It was the worst
yet, and believe me,

988
00:47:40,236 --> 00:47:43,136
there'd been some pretty bad
Amy Winehouse performances.

989
00:47:43,170 --> 00:47:45,414
However, she was booed offstage,
she threw the microphone

990
00:47:45,448 --> 00:47:47,554
into the crowd, she
didn't remember her words,

991
00:47:47,588 --> 00:47:49,556
and of course in this
modern day of YouTube,

992
00:47:49,590 --> 00:47:51,799
it all ended up on the
internet within a few hours.

993
00:47:51,834 --> 00:47:55,355
And at that point, there was
huge pressure on her management

994
00:47:55,389 --> 00:47:57,046
because so many questions
were being asked.

995
00:47:57,081 --> 00:47:59,669
Why was she on tour
in the first place?

996
00:47:59,704 --> 00:48:02,465
So as a result of
that criticism, they
actually canceled

997
00:48:02,500 --> 00:48:04,398
the rest of her European
tour and she came home,

998
00:48:04,433 --> 00:48:06,987
and they said they were
going to focus on her health.

999
00:48:07,022 --> 00:48:10,611
Now again, is there an
argument to say, actually,

1000
00:48:10,646 --> 00:48:13,097
maybe she was safer when she
was on the road and performing

1001
00:48:13,131 --> 00:48:15,271
because at least she had her
support network around her,

1002
00:48:15,306 --> 00:48:17,135
at least she was
doing something?

1003
00:48:17,170 --> 00:48:20,759
But the fact of the matter
is, when I saw her onstage

1004
00:48:20,794 --> 00:48:23,072
during that shambolic
performance in Belgrade,

1005
00:48:23,107 --> 00:48:25,143
I just thought,
this is not right.

1006
00:48:25,178 --> 00:48:27,042
This is not a woman
who should be onstage,

1007
00:48:27,076 --> 00:48:31,011
she should not be performing,
something has to be done here.

1008
00:48:31,046 --> 00:48:33,634
- As Amy returns
to her home in Camden,

1009
00:48:33,669 --> 00:48:36,361
the media focuses on
her tour's failure,

1010
00:48:36,396 --> 00:48:38,777
endlessly criticizing
her addiction

1011
00:48:38,812 --> 00:48:41,194
and lack of
self-control once again.

1012
00:48:42,609 --> 00:48:46,061
After reflecting on her poor
performance during the tour,

1013
00:48:46,095 --> 00:48:48,132
Amy seems to be
preparing to change

1014
00:48:48,166 --> 00:48:50,168
her life for the better.

1015
00:48:50,203 --> 00:48:52,584
She makes a number of
phone calls to her friends

1016
00:48:52,619 --> 00:48:54,069
and fellow musicians,

1017
00:48:54,103 --> 00:48:57,175
promising a better
and brighter future.

1018
00:48:57,210 --> 00:49:00,730
She discusses plans,
hopes and her goals.

1019
00:49:00,765 --> 00:49:02,905
She had a purpose again.

1020
00:49:02,940 --> 00:49:06,944
But unfortunately, Amy's
life was soon to be over.

1021
00:49:08,290 --> 00:49:10,257
- As a dad,
what would your greatest

1022
00:49:10,292 --> 00:49:11,776
wish be for Amy's future?

1023
00:49:13,191 --> 00:49:15,262
- Well, for her to be well.

1024
00:49:15,297 --> 00:49:17,540
For her to have a
loving relationship,

1025
00:49:19,059 --> 00:49:20,716
with whoever she chooses to
have that loving relationship

1026
00:49:20,750 --> 00:49:21,959
with, could be Blake.

1027
00:49:24,271 --> 00:49:26,964
To carry on her
fantastic relationship

1028
00:49:26,998 --> 00:49:28,758
with the family that we have,

1029
00:49:28,793 --> 00:49:32,659
and to do whatever it
is that makes her happy.

1030
00:49:32,693 --> 00:49:35,144
She wants to have a family.

1031
00:49:35,179 --> 00:49:38,527
Maybe that'll be her drug
of choice, family, children.

1032
00:49:38,561 --> 00:49:40,529
She'd love to have
children, but of course,

1033
00:49:40,563 --> 00:49:44,050
again, not as far as Amy's
concerned, but generally,

1034
00:49:44,084 --> 00:49:47,846
people who are addicted
to drugs, it's unwise

1035
00:49:47,881 --> 00:49:49,917
for people to have children

1036
00:49:49,952 --> 00:49:52,713
because their children
could be born as addicts.

1037
00:49:52,748 --> 00:49:55,026
She understands all
of these things,

1038
00:49:55,061 --> 00:49:57,166
and all of these
things are helping her

1039
00:49:57,201 --> 00:50:00,135
to begin to make
the right choices.

1040
00:50:00,169 --> 00:50:01,653
- And as a dad,
I'll ask another question.

1041
00:50:01,688 --> 00:50:04,070
What would be your biggest fear?

1042
00:50:04,104 --> 00:50:05,968
- Well my biggest fear
is that she would die.

1043
00:50:11,249 --> 00:50:14,114
- On the
23rd of July, 2011,

1044
00:50:14,149 --> 00:50:16,289
Amy Winehouse was found dead

1045
00:50:16,323 --> 00:50:18,981
by her bodyguard, Andrew Morris.

1046
00:50:19,016 --> 00:50:20,672
The cause of death
was proclaimed

1047
00:50:20,707 --> 00:50:22,812
to be due to alcohol poisoning.

1048
00:50:24,090 --> 00:50:25,436
- Police were called by the
London Ambulance Service

1049
00:50:25,470 --> 00:50:27,886
to a house in Camden
Square, Northwest One,

1050
00:50:27,921 --> 00:50:30,648
shortly before 1605 hours today.

1051
00:50:34,755 --> 00:50:36,343
Upon arrival, officers found
the body of a 27-year-old

1052
00:50:36,378 --> 00:50:39,726
female, who was pronounced
dead at the scene.

1053
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:41,624
Next of kin have been informed,

1054
00:50:41,659 --> 00:50:44,386
and I can confirm that the
deceased is Amy Winehouse.

1055
00:50:46,974 --> 00:50:49,563
- I picked up the phone,
and Andrew [sighs],

1056
00:50:52,118 --> 00:50:53,912
Andrew was crying.

1057
00:50:55,121 --> 00:50:58,917
And he said, you
gotta come home.

1058
00:50:58,952 --> 00:51:00,712
I said, is she dead?

1059
00:51:00,747 --> 00:51:02,093
He said, yeah, Amy's dead.

1060
00:51:04,475 --> 00:51:09,480
Immediately, in my mind, it
was like my mind had emptied.

1061
00:51:16,349 --> 00:51:18,109
- There's no doubt
Amy was still in love

1062
00:51:18,144 --> 00:51:20,905
with Blake at the
end of her life.

1063
00:51:20,939 --> 00:51:24,874
She really couldn't accept
that he was with another girl,

1064
00:51:24,909 --> 00:51:26,290
that he had a child.

1065
00:51:27,877 --> 00:51:30,087
What's really heartbreaking
is that Amy Winehouse said,

1066
00:51:30,121 --> 00:51:32,744
I love singing, but I
was put on this Earth

1067
00:51:32,779 --> 00:51:36,058
to be a wife and to be a mother.

1068
00:51:36,093 --> 00:51:39,510
And she was a wife to Blake,
but she never got to be

1069
00:51:39,544 --> 00:51:41,684
the mother that she
so craved to be,

1070
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,066
and she had to watch
the love of her life

1071
00:51:44,101 --> 00:51:46,275
have this child
with somebody else.

1072
00:51:46,310 --> 00:51:50,141
Indeed, Blake's partner came
forward to say that he's

1073
00:51:50,176 --> 00:51:53,075
absolutely devastated
about her death

1074
00:51:53,110 --> 00:51:56,182
and that she kinda knows
that she's always going

1075
00:51:56,216 --> 00:51:57,769
to be second best to Amy.

1076
00:51:57,804 --> 00:51:59,495
She saw them together,
Amy and Blake,

1077
00:51:59,530 --> 00:52:02,774
and said they were soulmates.

1078
00:52:02,809 --> 00:52:05,156
Which is quite hard
for a woman to accept,

1079
00:52:05,191 --> 00:52:06,640
that you're never
going to match up

1080
00:52:06,675 --> 00:52:09,126
to the love of your
partner's life.

1081
00:52:10,989 --> 00:52:14,545
- The cycle from
being a young woman

1082
00:52:14,579 --> 00:52:17,651
with such extraordinary
raw talent to being dead

1083
00:52:17,686 --> 00:52:20,275
at the age of 27,
was a tragic cycle,

1084
00:52:20,309 --> 00:52:22,449
and it's one we've
seen many times before.

1085
00:52:22,484 --> 00:52:25,659
That's something
called the Club 27.

1086
00:52:25,694 --> 00:52:28,869
This is of all the
great rock-and-roll
artists who've died,

1087
00:52:28,904 --> 00:52:30,871
and it began with
Robert Thompson in 1938,

1088
00:52:30,906 --> 00:52:33,011
when he died at 27.

1089
00:52:33,046 --> 00:52:35,911
And look at the names,
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin,

1090
00:52:35,945 --> 00:52:37,982
Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain.

1091
00:52:38,016 --> 00:52:40,226
These are all people,
Brian Jones of the Stones,

1092
00:52:40,260 --> 00:52:42,711
these are all people
who died at 27.

1093
00:52:42,745 --> 00:52:45,369
And sometimes people get
on a certain trajectory,

1094
00:52:45,403 --> 00:52:48,648
and come hell or high
water, you can't stop them

1095
00:52:48,682 --> 00:52:50,339
and they can't stop themselves.

1096
00:52:53,963 --> 00:52:57,001
- Amy's funeral
was on the 26th of July.

1097
00:52:57,035 --> 00:52:59,831
The ceremony was attended
by all of her family,

1098
00:52:59,866 --> 00:53:01,902
as well as some of
her industry friends

1099
00:53:01,937 --> 00:53:05,009
such as Mark Ronson
and Kelly Osbourne.

1100
00:53:05,043 --> 00:53:07,736
It was a loving final
goodbye to the young,

1101
00:53:07,770 --> 00:53:09,324
sadly troubled star.

1102
00:53:10,842 --> 00:53:14,018
Not long after Amy's funeral,
the media went into looking

1103
00:53:14,052 --> 00:53:16,607
for who was to blame
for Amy's death

1104
00:53:16,641 --> 00:53:19,679
and turned their attention
to her ex-husband,

1105
00:53:19,713 --> 00:53:21,681
Blake Fielder Civil.

1106
00:53:21,715 --> 00:53:24,408
- Blake got some bad press,
and sometimes it was deserved.

1107
00:53:24,442 --> 00:53:26,410
What is wrong is
to blame anybody

1108
00:53:26,444 --> 00:53:28,170
for somebody else's death.

1109
00:53:28,205 --> 00:53:29,171
Amy was an addict.

1110
00:53:29,206 --> 00:53:31,898
Every addict is
introduced by someone,

1111
00:53:31,932 --> 00:53:34,349
and ultimately they have
to take responsibility.

1112
00:53:38,007 --> 00:53:41,010
Georgette, who's Blake's
mother, said that they were

1113
00:53:41,045 --> 00:53:43,461
soulmates, Amy and
Blake, but they were both

1114
00:53:43,496 --> 00:53:45,083
as bad as each other.

1115
00:53:45,118 --> 00:53:47,776
They both dragged each other
down, and it's well known

1116
00:53:47,810 --> 00:53:49,743
that when two addicts get
together and they're in

1117
00:53:49,778 --> 00:53:51,952
a relationship, if one
tries to get clean,

1118
00:53:51,987 --> 00:53:54,092
the other will often
bring them back.

1119
00:53:54,127 --> 00:53:56,785
It's like, if two people
smoke, one of them smoking,

1120
00:53:56,819 --> 00:53:59,374
the other will give in and
say, well, I'll have one.

1121
00:53:59,408 --> 00:54:01,134
They were both as
bad as each other,

1122
00:54:01,168 --> 00:54:03,723
and they loved
each other so much

1123
00:54:03,757 --> 00:54:05,690
that it destroyed Amy.

1124
00:54:05,725 --> 00:54:09,073
I don't think Blake
will ever get over this.

1125
00:54:09,107 --> 00:54:12,076
I think Blake loved
Amy every bit as much

1126
00:54:12,110 --> 00:54:15,148
as Amy loved him, and it
is unfair to paint him

1127
00:54:15,182 --> 00:54:18,531
as a callous character
who killed her.

1128
00:54:18,565 --> 00:54:21,016
People do say that,
and it's very unfair,

1129
00:54:21,050 --> 00:54:23,639
because here's a man who
asked not to get a penny

1130
00:54:23,674 --> 00:54:27,125
in divorce and who says
that he loved her so much

1131
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,473
but couldn't be with her,
couldn't be without her.

1132
00:54:29,507 --> 00:54:31,233
They were both exactly the same.

1133
00:54:36,963 --> 00:54:40,104
- I mean, Amy had been given
a lot of help for a long time,

1134
00:54:40,138 --> 00:54:42,140
so she was seeing a
doctor up until she died.

1135
00:54:42,175 --> 00:54:46,110
She was, ironically, an
outpatient of the Priory,

1136
00:54:46,144 --> 00:54:48,940
the big rehab facility in the UK

1137
00:54:48,975 --> 00:54:50,563
at the time of her death.

1138
00:54:50,597 --> 00:54:53,117
So there is an argument that
she was being looked after.

1139
00:54:53,151 --> 00:54:56,603
At the same time, I believe
there will always be questions

1140
00:54:56,638 --> 00:54:58,571
about whether enough
had been done.

1141
00:54:58,605 --> 00:55:01,332
I mean, why wasn't she
sectioned, for example,

1142
00:55:01,367 --> 00:55:03,403
that's a question that I
think will potentially haunt

1143
00:55:03,438 --> 00:55:05,094
some of the people close to her.

1144
00:55:05,129 --> 00:55:08,132
Did she need more people
around her 24 hours a day?

1145
00:55:08,166 --> 00:55:10,134
She had one bodyguard,
but maybe she needed

1146
00:55:10,168 --> 00:55:13,724
more caregivers in the house
checking on her once an hour.

1147
00:55:13,758 --> 00:55:16,140
I mean, look, it's one of these
things where it's very easy

1148
00:55:16,174 --> 00:55:18,211
in hindsight, you don't
want to blame anyone.

1149
00:55:18,245 --> 00:55:23,078
But I do think some questions
about whether she was being

1150
00:55:23,112 --> 00:55:25,114
looked after in the right
way are obviously valid,

1151
00:55:25,149 --> 00:55:27,531
because for whatever
reason, it didn't work.

1152
00:55:27,565 --> 00:55:31,914
She died, so there have
to be some questions.

1153
00:55:48,966 --> 00:55:53,971
♪ Love is a losing game

1154
00:55:54,834 --> 00:55:59,045
♪ Five-Story fire as you came

1155
00:56:00,218 --> 00:56:05,154
♪ Love is a losing game

1156
00:56:06,224 --> 00:56:10,712
♪ One I wished I never played

1157
00:56:11,575 --> 00:56:16,338
♪ Oh, what a mess we made

1158
00:56:17,443 --> 00:56:21,412
♪ And now the final frame

1159
00:56:21,447 --> 00:56:23,103
♪ Love

1160
00:56:23,138 --> 00:56:26,141
- The terms legend and
genius when it comes

1161
00:56:26,175 --> 00:56:29,316
to singer-songwriters
are way too overused.

1162
00:56:29,351 --> 00:56:31,905
Amy deserves them,
she absolutely does.

1163
00:56:31,940 --> 00:56:35,046
There's only one album
that was amazing,

1164
00:56:35,081 --> 00:56:37,324
but my God what an album it was.

1165
00:56:37,359 --> 00:56:39,154
It will be played forever.

1166
00:56:40,327 --> 00:56:43,158
And Amy Winehouse, it's
not just the songs.

1167
00:56:43,192 --> 00:56:45,056
There was only
one Amy Winehouse.

1168
00:56:45,091 --> 00:56:47,714
There was only one girl
with the daft hair,

1169
00:56:47,749 --> 00:56:51,960
and she had her look, she had
her sound, and she was loved.

1170
00:56:56,067 --> 00:56:58,138
- I think she will,
fundamentally in the end,

1171
00:56:58,173 --> 00:57:01,487
be remembered for her
voice, which was so unique.

1172
00:57:01,521 --> 00:57:04,455
But I also think she should
be remembered as a songwriter.

1173
00:57:04,490 --> 00:57:07,354
Incredible lyrics,
incredible melodies,

1174
00:57:07,389 --> 00:57:10,150
and also she was groundbreaking
because, remember,

1175
00:57:10,185 --> 00:57:11,945
at the time when Amy
burst onto the scene,

1176
00:57:11,980 --> 00:57:14,569
it was all about Britney Spears
and those sorts of artists,

1177
00:57:14,603 --> 00:57:17,330
and she paved the way
for the likes of Adele.

1178
00:57:17,364 --> 00:57:20,126
And I don't believe we
would have Adele, who's now

1179
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,197
the biggest recording
star in the world,

1180
00:57:22,231 --> 00:57:24,924
if we hadn't had Amy
Winehouse before her.

1181
00:57:30,101 --> 00:57:32,276
- The one thing that
has to be said, though,

1182
00:57:32,310 --> 00:57:35,175
that somewhere with a
woman like Amy Winehouse

1183
00:57:35,210 --> 00:57:40,215
who had such enormous
talent, such huge talent,

1184
00:57:41,423 --> 00:57:43,114
and lived so much on the
edge and fought so valiantly

1185
00:57:43,149 --> 00:57:46,048
against her addiction,
people kind of identify

1186
00:57:46,083 --> 00:57:47,498
with that kinda struggle.

1187
00:57:47,533 --> 00:57:49,120
People think, you know what,

1188
00:57:49,155 --> 00:57:51,019
there but for the
grace of God go I.

1189
00:57:51,053 --> 00:57:52,848
And in some way, they just
wanna give her a tribute.

1190
00:57:52,883 --> 00:57:54,367
Well, you might
not have made it,

1191
00:57:54,401 --> 00:57:57,335
but you did your best,
and that's what matters.

1192
00:57:57,370 --> 00:58:00,718
And Amy Winehouse once said, I
don't ever wanna be mediocre.

1193
00:58:02,064 --> 00:58:04,481
She says, and she talked
about people in the chart,

1194
00:58:04,515 --> 00:58:06,379
she says, they have no soul.

1195
00:58:06,413 --> 00:58:08,105
Well the thing about
Amy Winehouse was,

1196
00:58:08,139 --> 00:58:09,831
there was nothing
mediocre about her.

1197
00:58:09,865 --> 00:58:13,110
And she had bucket
loads of soul.

1198
00:58:13,144 --> 00:58:14,525
That's why she
should be remembered,

1199
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:16,769
and that's why people really
wanna pay tribute to her.

1200
00:58:24,535 --> 00:58:26,261
- Yeah, we had it in
a very short time.

1201
00:58:26,295 --> 00:58:27,883
We had some amazing
times together.

1202
00:58:27,918 --> 00:58:30,507
We got to make some
great music, and then,

1203
00:58:30,541 --> 00:58:32,681
forever grateful because
she kind of is the reason

1204
00:58:32,716 --> 00:58:35,442
I have a career
really, you know.

1205
00:58:39,101 --> 00:58:43,036
- You know, every
maybe 10, 15 years,

1206
00:58:43,071 --> 00:58:47,109
you get a great one that
comes along, and that was her.

1207
00:58:47,144 --> 00:58:48,490
They don't come
along very often.

1208
00:58:48,525 --> 00:58:51,942
She was very unique, and she
started a whole new style.

1209
00:58:51,976 --> 00:58:53,806
Adele and all these
girls couldn't be here

1210
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:54,669
if it wasn't for Amy.

1211
00:58:54,703 --> 00:58:56,498
She started something.

1212
00:58:56,533 --> 00:58:59,812
She made it about the voice
again, and that was amazing.

1213
00:58:59,846 --> 00:59:02,469
Not about looking pretty
and all that stuff,

1214
00:59:02,504 --> 00:59:05,576
it was about pure
talent, you know.

1215
00:59:07,682 --> 00:59:09,338
- During
her life, Amy set up

1216
00:59:09,373 --> 00:59:12,894
the Amy Winehouse Foundation,
which worked to prevent

1217
00:59:12,928 --> 00:59:16,553
the effects of drug and
alcohol misuse on young people.

1218
00:59:16,587 --> 00:59:20,039
Soon after her death, her
father Mitch, mother Janice

1219
00:59:20,073 --> 00:59:23,629
and stepmother Jane all worked
to help keep the foundation

1220
00:59:23,663 --> 00:59:26,528
going and attending
events in Amy's honor.

1221
00:59:27,978 --> 00:59:29,324
- As her
dad, it must be difficult,

1222
00:59:29,358 --> 00:59:32,465
but do you have an overriding
favorite memory of Amy?

1223
00:59:32,499 --> 00:59:34,294
- Well, you know,
there are so many

1224
00:59:34,329 --> 00:59:36,055
it's difficult to
know where to begin.

1225
00:59:36,089 --> 00:59:37,125
- Her humor.

1226
00:59:37,159 --> 00:59:39,541
- Her humor, I mean, I
was just talking before

1227
00:59:39,576 --> 00:59:43,545
about, I think two months
after Back to Black came out,

1228
00:59:43,580 --> 00:59:45,512
she was number one
all over the world.

1229
00:59:45,547 --> 00:59:47,687
She was Adele and Lady
GaGa rolled into one,

1230
00:59:47,722 --> 00:59:51,035
and she said to me, Dad,
let's go for a walk in SoHo.

1231
00:59:51,070 --> 00:59:53,175
And we started at the
top of Wardour Street,

1232
00:59:53,210 --> 00:59:55,453
and we're walking down, and
she said, Just a sec, Dad.

1233
00:59:55,488 --> 00:59:58,456
She went into the Caribbean
restaurant, went downstairs

1234
00:59:58,491 --> 01:00:00,320
and she was talking to
her friend down there,

1235
01:00:00,355 --> 01:00:02,529
and the cook, her name's Aunty,

1236
01:00:02,564 --> 01:00:05,740
and she knew all about her
and all about her family,

1237
01:00:05,774 --> 01:00:08,397
and then we came
out and then we went

1238
01:00:08,432 --> 01:00:10,572
into Ryman's, the stationer,
she knew all the girls

1239
01:00:10,607 --> 01:00:12,125
in there, then we
went, you know,

1240
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:14,680
everywhere she stopped,
she knew everybody

1241
01:00:14,714 --> 01:00:17,130
and genuinely knew
everything about them.

1242
01:00:17,165 --> 01:00:19,098
I remember looking at her
and thinking, you know what,

1243
01:00:19,132 --> 01:00:22,170
there are not a lot of
young women in your position

1244
01:00:22,204 --> 01:00:24,103
that would bother
with this kinda stuff.

1245
01:00:24,137 --> 01:00:25,173
- Like a mum.

1246
01:00:25,207 --> 01:00:26,484
- My mum was
exactly the same,

1247
01:00:26,519 --> 01:00:29,177
and that made me
so proud of her.

1248
01:00:29,211 --> 01:00:31,558
She was just a
normal, normal girl,

1249
01:00:31,593 --> 01:00:34,596
with obviously an
extraordinary talent.

1250
01:00:34,631 --> 01:00:38,151
- After she went, we didn't
know how we were gonna carry on.

1251
01:00:38,186 --> 01:00:42,121
But the foundation has
given us a purpose.

1252
01:00:42,155 --> 01:00:45,469
It's really important,
and it helps.

1253
01:00:45,503 --> 01:00:47,333
It's really helped
all the family

1254
01:00:47,367 --> 01:00:49,128
to come to terms with her loss.

1255
01:00:55,721 --> 01:00:58,482
♪ We said goodbye

1256
01:00:58,516 --> 01:01:01,381
♪ I died 100 times

1257
01:01:04,143 --> 01:01:07,042
- Amy's legacy
will forever be remembered.

1258
01:01:07,077 --> 01:01:10,149
Despite making the headlines
everywhere for her troubled

1259
01:01:10,183 --> 01:01:14,084
relationships and her
dependency on alcohol and drugs,

1260
01:01:14,118 --> 01:01:16,707
it was her music that
helped her stand out

1261
01:01:16,742 --> 01:01:19,572
and relate to audiences
all over the world.

1262
01:01:21,022 --> 01:01:24,128
Although she tragically
died at just the age of 27,

1263
01:01:24,163 --> 01:01:26,510
her music will forever live on

1264
01:01:26,544 --> 01:01:30,134
and continue to inspire
up-and-coming artists.

1265
01:01:30,169 --> 01:01:31,653
And it's safe to say,

1266
01:01:31,688 --> 01:01:35,864
everyone will always remember
the name Amy Winehouse.

1267
01:01:37,176 --> 01:01:40,248
- It can be draining when
you have written a song

1268
01:01:40,282 --> 01:01:44,286
about something very,
very serious to you.

1269
01:01:44,321 --> 01:01:47,462
It can be draining, but
also it gives you energy.

1270
01:01:47,496 --> 01:01:49,119
You can get energy
from writing a song

1271
01:01:49,153 --> 01:01:51,017
about something personal because

1272
01:01:53,192 --> 01:01:54,676
you are kind of shaking it off.

1273
01:01:54,711 --> 01:01:57,472
And once you put it in a
song, that's it, it's done.

1274
01:01:57,506 --> 01:02:00,130
For me, or once I have
put situations in song

1275
01:02:00,164 --> 01:02:03,927
I'm cool about them, and
I think, yeah, dusted.

1276
01:02:03,961 --> 01:02:05,169
I'm cool now.

1277
01:02:05,204 --> 01:02:07,137
It does go bath ways, yeah.