#HOW OLD WAS AMY WINEHOUSE WHEN SHE DIED TV#
Magazine profiles documented her inebriated storming of the United States, where she played festivals and made TV appearances that were increasingly erratic and then disastrous. She’d dated a chef named Alex Claire for nine months, which provided a bit more stability, but she ultimately reunited with Fielder-Civil in February, just before her album’s stateside debut. Back in Black was released in the United States in March 2007, at which point she was fully in the grip of drink and drugs. Winehouse did eventually agree to go to rehab, and more than once, but the months and years in between her brief attempts at sober living were increasingly sordid and sad, filled with private chaos performed for the public. The song it prompted, however, became Winehouse’s most iconic tune, an anthem for her way of life and ultimate demise. He tried to convince her to go to rehab, but she swore up and down to her father that she didn’t need the detox time, so the effort itself was very short-lived. In the fall of 2005, Godwyn had seen enough of his client and close friend stumbling through Camden and closer and closer to the edge of squandering her talent, not to mention her life. The most famous of the songs, “Rehab,” would prove to be apocryphal.ĭespite several attempts to go to rehab, Winehouse continued to spiral out of control The grief and turmoil fueled her creativity, and the tumult with Fielder-Civil would inspire many of the lyrics in Back in Black, her heartbreak, frustrations, and unhealthy addictions belted out over the sounds of ‘60s girl groups. To put a finer point on the idea that she sought out chaos, whether through impulse or conscious focus, she also told an interviewer that year that “it sounds such a wank thing to say, but I need to get some headaches goin’ to write about.” “You don’t want to be settled, because when you’re settled you might as well call it a day.” “If you’re a musician, and you have things you want to get out, you write music,” she told an interviewer in 2006. Theirs was an on-and-off relationship at first, as they were frequently separated by his infidelities and stints in prison. He introduced her to heroin and other hard drugs she had his name tattooed over her right breast and he inked hers behind his right ear. Pain was Winehouse’s muse and her combustible relationship with Fielder-Civil provided plenty of inspiration. When I met her she smoked weed but she thought the people who took class-A drugs were stupid. And it seemed to me like that was down to the drugs. “Amy changed overnight after she met Blake,” her first manager, Nick Godwyn, told The Times in 2007. She was a unique talent, a jazz fanatic with the voice of a soul singer, and she was quickly signed by Island Records. The only future she saw for herself was as a musician, and she poured her soul into writing deeply confessional lyrics and singing around London, her hometown. When her parents split up, Winehouse declared her own independence, collecting tattoos, smoking marijuana and cutting school. Winehouse was always a rebel, bent on doing things her way in the Oscar-winning documentary Amy, her mother Janis admits that she was determined and stubborn even as a small child. READ MORE: The 27 Club: Kurt Cobain and Other Musicians Who Died at Age 27 Winehouse knew it was her destiny to make music That Winehouse was just 27 years old when she died underscored her sheer natural brilliance, the meteoric nature of her rise and the wrenching tragedy of her downward spiral and ultimate fall. When Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning on July 23, 2011, she had not released a new album in five years, since she put out her landmark, multi-Grammy-winning classic Back to Black in 2006.
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