Amy
These are the only
three people left.
This is Mr. Alex Steele,
Mrs. Juliette Ashby,
- Mrs. Amy Winehouse.
- Ah, my booby.
In other words,
Mrs. Amy Winehouse.
And everyone else is gone.
D'you want a lick
of the lollipop?
Come on, have a lick.
- No, I don't.
- Have a lick. Come here.
Come and have a lick.
No one wants to lick
your slobbery lollipop.
- Lauren, just lick it.
- Here's me.
It's my 14th...
birthday evening and party.
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Lauren
Happy birthday...
To... you
Oh, wow.
Moon River wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style...
I was singing
with a little jazz unit,
the National Youth
Jazz Orchestra,
must've been about 16,
and I just loved jazz.
Dinah Washington...
Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett.
I learned to sing from listening
to stuff like Monk,
and a lot of soloists as well,
rather than just listening
to singers.
I learned from everything,
really.
...same rainbow's end
Waiting round the bend
My Huckleberry friend
Moon River
And me
important to me,
but I never thought, "I love
singing, I'll be a singer."
I just thought, "I'm lucky"
there is something
I can always do, if I want to.
"I'm so lucky like that."
But I didn't think
And me
Moon River and me
What's the date?
- Today?
- 24th.
- Is it?
- Yeah.
- The what?
- 24th.
- Of what?
- January.
And, um, what day is it?
- Saturday.
- And what year is it?
Lunchtime.
I was a 19-year-old
office junior
for a promotions company
owned by Simon Fuller.
I just started to try
and kind of blag it myself
as a talent scout.
I was definitely
out of my depth.
My friend Tyler
is a singer.
He was with Nicky Shymansky
and Tyler said,
and she's great."
Nicky said to me,
"Want some studio time?"
I said, "For what?"
And he was like,
"Well, if you'd write songs,
we'd make a record,
get a record deal."
I was, like,
"What do you get out of it?"
Hello.
I look ugly.
Yeah, look at you.
You look lovely.
I don't. My chin's massive.
- Worried about your chin?
- That's there forever.
There is no greater thrill
Than what you bring to me
No sweeter song
Than what you sing
Sing to me
- Decide to record it?
- Yeah.
Hello.
I'm just here... smoking a fag.
I just like to...
Oh, I look so grim.
I look like a floating head.
You know, I've got no hair.
I'm just on a black screen.
There's my hand.
What's going on?
We'd recorded
quite a few demo recordings,
and I started to talk about
whether she'd ever consider
writing.
She said she's not sure
about writing songs,
but she's written
a lot of poems.
And he's my life
She knew full well
she'd been writing songs,
but they were very
personal songs.
I wouldn't write anything
unless it was directly personal
to me,
just 'cause I wouldn't be able
to tell the story right
because I wouldn't have done it.
Even though some of it
is personal in a sad way,
I'd never let it just be that.
I'll always put a punchline
in the song.
Just try and be different
with my lyrics.
Someone gave me a CD, two songs,
and they weren't necessarily
what you'd call hit songs,
but they conveyed an emotion
that just touched me.
When you have that as an artist,
you usually have
a story to tell behind it.
But it's a big leap of faith.
I think my boss
even questioned the deal,
because we were really
committing to giving
an unsigned artist
close to 250,000 pounds.
We both knew we wanted
to live with each other,
we both knew
we wanted to move out.
She had family issues
and I had lots of things
going on with my family,
and we looked after each other.
It was amazing.
We were young kids
and we were best friends,
in a flat on our own.
She loved it.
Juliette would sing,
Amy would sing...
And we just used
to see each other all the time.
We used to go
to so many gigs with Amy.
And when she first started
doing her music,
we were all so excited
and proud of it.
Where are we, Amy?
- We're in Brighton.
- Yeah, but what are we in now?
Um, we're in, uh...
What's-it Square,
Regency Square, in a black cab.
In a white cab. A beautiful cab.
- And Lauren's with us.
- Ah!
D'you know what my favourite
thing about Nicky is?
His legs.
Aw.
Know what my other
favourite thing is?
- What?
- Not your hair.
She could make you feel
so important...
and then, all of a sudden,
very unimportant.
And then make you feel
so important again.
That was what she did.
She liked to get people
into a comfortable position
and then shock them.
If I got my hair right,
then what would that mean?
That would mean
Her first relationship
was with an older guy
called Chris.
She really got the hots for him.
Madly in love with him.
She wrote a few songs
about having the hots for him.
And then, eventually,
she lost interest and...
She always used to talk about it
and started writing about that.
I think when I was growing up,
the music that was
in the pop charts or, you know,
the music that was...
that people were releasing
at the time,
I just thought,
"This isn't music,"
this is watered down,
or this is, you know, just crap,
someone else has written it
for you
"and you have to sing it."
It's very much the case
with some music today.
I really started writing music
just as... to challenge myself,
to see what I could write or,
you know,
just because
there was nothing else there
that I could listen to
at the time.
And having listened to jazz
and, you know, great songwriters
like James Taylor
and Carole King,
it was very...
I felt like I had nothing new
that was coming out at the time
that really represented me
or the way I felt.
So I just started writing,
really, my own stuff
and from personal experience.
This is, um,
I Heard Love is Blind.
I'll just clip, clip my hair
out of the way, 'cause
it's gonna get on my nerves.
I remember thinking,
when she walked in,
she was this complete
force of nature.
I thought, "Wow,
there's something about you."
And I remember thinking,
"Please be good."
I wrote this in Miami with
a guy called Salaam and, um...
- and I'm really proud of it.
- She was 18
and she was a very classic
North London Jewish girl.
A lot of attitude.
Quite shy, but something
emanated from her.
She had a charisma.
When you looked
at her lyrical capability
and her melodic capability,
she was a very old soul
in a very young body.
And we did the deal
very, very quickly.
Amy's album came out yesterday
and how many has it sold so far?
A pretty staggering 800,
actually.
That is at least...
I've emptied my bank account
buying 600 of them.
That is, at least half my
friends have bought the album.
Bastards. I'd better call
the other half up today.
Snug in a rug.
She's going to get annoyed.
Amy?
Explain what your little hub
is all about.
- Hello. Oh, you're coming.
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