My favourite Amy. Made me cry. I can hear a lot of pain in the voice.
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She had so much more to give musically and has spawned a whole generation of sometimes poor imitators but what she did leave us was three fantastic records if you include Lioness and some incredible live performances.
We saw her live at the Isle of Wight festival in 2007 which is a hard watch at times now and sections of the audience where not kind whilst others had clearly come to watch the spectacle rather than hear her sing.
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I so wish I’d seen her. Curiously, although I’d vaguely heard of her, I didn’t really ‘discover’ her until last year when the BBC broadcast a repeat of her two performances at Glastonbury from 2007. Since then I have collected most of her recorded output as well as DVDs etc. Such an incredible talent.
I love her interpretation of Donny Hathaway’s song, We’re Still Friends:
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Featured on the at the BBC.
Diane Washington’s Teach Me Tonight.
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And another cover with Tony Bennet this time I love the arrangement on this beautiful.
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And then there’s this one. On the DVD set of the At the BBC collection, even Jools identifies this as a particular highlight. I adore this.
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@Clive I watched/listened to this a couple of days ago when I saw your post and it’s been nagging away in my mind ever since.
So I just played it again. It’s magic. Thank you for the introduction.
Best
David
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This version of Carole King’s ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’ is IMHO superior to the over-produced version on the Lioness album. I’ve been trying to find this version for a while, but reading the description on this YouTube clip, it seems that it’s from the soundtrack to the film Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
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Luckily for us, there is a wealth of material available on YouTube. After watching the above video, this came up in the list of follow on suggestions. This is just Amy singing with Robin Bannerjee on nylon strung guitar performing in a guitar store, but she sung with no less commitment and passion. This is a really fine version of this song.
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Superb. Passion and intensity. A unique and irreplaceable talent. Thank goodness we have YouTube.
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We where lucky enough to be at this show.
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I never understood the appeal and talent of Amy Winehouse until this thread…
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Yes ! That is my fav Amy song. And there are many good ones
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Here’s Amy performing her version of Valerie, originally recorded by The Zutons, at Glastonbury 2007. She performed twice at that year’s festival, once on the main stage and later on the jazz stage. At the end of the set she is seen embracing Blake Fielder-Civil, who was largely responsible for her descent into drugs.
I think Amy’s drug abuse is more rooted in her past than with BCF as odious a character and as easy a scapegoat as he is.
This Oscar winning documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse is being shown on Channel 4, this Friday, 9 July, at 11:05pm. It’s a moving documentary which doesn’t seek to attribute blame, but is quite revealing. It’s definitely worth setting the recorder for.
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Seeing her at Glasto 2008 has always clouded my opinion. We were quite close to the front of the pyramid stage which maybe made the whole thing a bit more ‘uncomfortable’. We left after three songs to seek out some genuine Glastonbury vibe at the acoustic tent, added to which Jay-Z was on after her!!
I think it was the fact she didn’t seem bothered that had most impact, it ain’t the drugs … Jack White was flying 1000ft above Somerset but one of the best I have seen.
Yes an excellent film it did make me very angry to see the media treat someone clearly in trouble the way they did, disgusting.
I have edited the above post. The date of broadcast is FRIDAY 9, July, not Thursday.