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Yeah, course you can.

What’s your name, angel?

Abby.

Abby.

Just like my name. But with Bs.

We could be sisters.

(Abby) Thank you.

I wish I was your mum.

Abby…

Shh! Don’t tell mum.

(Giggles)

One day, Jimmy. One day.

(Jimmy) Yeah, sure, love.

(Man) Over here!

(Man 2) Here she is! Where’s Blake, Amy?

Do I look like Paris f***ing Hilton?

(Man) What’s in the bag, Amy?

Loads of none of your business, pal!

(Man 2) Looking a bit thin, love!

F*** off, lads.

Come on, Amy, just one more here!

(All shouting)

Just f*** off!

(Man) Come on, Amy!

(Man 2) Amy, this way!

(Amy) F*** off, lads! Sort yourself out!

(Muffled voices)

(Echoes) Over here! Over here! Amy, over here!

(Man) Amy!

Yeah, so when I was writing the album, erm…

…I was going through a pretty dark time.

Erm… I…

I was in a relationship with someone… I was very much in love with, you know.

Very much in love with, but it… couldn’t work, we couldn’t be together.

Erm… and he ended up going back to his ex-girlfriend.

Erm…

And I didn’t really have anything to go back to, to be honest.

You know, so I was drinking a lot, playing pool, just being stupid, really.

Erm, so the album’s about going back to a black place in my life.

Well, whatever you channelled, it worked.

The album’s number one around the world, and it’s the highest charting album

from a British female artist in the US ever.

Yeah, I got some good songs out of it.

I don’t write songs to be famous, d’you know what I mean?

I write songs cos…

I’d don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t.

I’ve got to make something good out of something bad.

Well, it’s definitely good. What are you singing for us today on The Live Lounge?

Er… it’s a track called ‘Valerie’.

Brilliant.

♪ Well, sometimes I go out by myself

♪ And I look across the water

♪ And I think of all the things what you’re doing

♪ In my head I paint a picture

♪ Cos since I come home, well, my body’s been a mess

♪ And I miss your ginger hair and the way you like to dress

♪ Won’t you come on over?

♪ Stop making a fool out of me

♪ Why don’t you come on over, Valerie?

♪ Valerie! Whoo!

♪ Valerie!

♪ Why don’t you come on over, Valerie?

That is a f***ing toe-tapper.

Yeah, it is a tune, to be fair.

She’s gotta be worth a few quid.

What d’you mean?

(Snorts) You’re not interested?

Shut up, Joey. It was never about money with her.

No? Was it about her beating you up?

What a d*ckhead you are.

I’m just saying…

It’d be nice to get a slice of that pie.

You could settle that smack bill, for starters.

You do owe me, and I owe someone else.

She’s probably well moved on by now, anyway.

Some fruity famous type.

What, with someone she made a number one album about?

Saying how much she loves and misses them?

Hang on… that’s you.

Now, if I was a betting man, and I am,

I’d say you were in with a good shout there, Blakey boy.

I’m gonna squeeze in there with her one day.

Well, I’ll need to squeeze in there first.

Well, then, you better lose some weight, cos I’m getting in,

whether you like it or not.

You don’t need to get any thinner. What’s going on?

Just on a new diet. Is it working?

Yeah. Too well, if you ask me.

Well, I did ask you, didn’t I? So, thanks.

(Phone beeping)

What’s up?

I gotta go! I love you!

(Amy laughing)

Amy…?

I love you!

Amy!

(♪ MINNIE RIPERTON: “Les Fleurs”)

♪ Inside every man

♪ Lives the seed of a flower

♪ If he looks within, he finds beauty and power

♪ Ring all the bells, sing and tell the people

♪ Everywhere that the flower has come

♪ Light up the sky with your prayers of gladness

♪ And rejoice, for the darkness has gone

♪ Throw off your fears, let your heart speak freely

♪ At the sign that a new time is born ♪

D’you fancy a game of pool?

No.

(Overlapping voices)

(Blake) F*** off.

Oops!

What are they after?

It’s weird.

Some of them are sleeping in their cars.

I’m not even that famous.

I’d say you are to them.

How have you been dealing with it?

I just stay in, have a few drinks,

knock my front teeth out, flash them a smile.

Then, I get my alcoholic buzz on, and go out, give them a show.

They love it.

Stupid pissed up Amy gives them exactly what they need to get paid.

So, more of them pitch up, you know.

I’m a free breakfast, lunch and dinner for those c*nts.

I just wanna look after you, baby.

(Blake) And your music?

I don’t think I was put on this earth just to sing.

You know?

I just wanna be with you.

I wanna be a wife.

And I wanna be a mum.

(Willie Nelson) ♪ That’s life, and as funny as it may seem

♪ Some people get a big old kick out of stomping on dreams

(Crowd cheering and shouting)

♪ But I don’t let it, I don’t let it get me down

♪ Cos this old world just keeps spinning around… ♪

Look there!

Bit of lovely.

Come on, then.

(Amy whooping)

(Blake) ♪ They tried to make me get a prenup

♪ But I said no, no, no ♪

Not funny, baby.

♪ Big myself up and get back in the race… ♪

(Phone buzzing)

Hello?

Amy?

Hang on. It’s Amy. Just going outside.

Alright, I can hear you now. What’s up?

(Amy) ‘We got married!’

“Congratulations, Ames! Aw, thanks, Dad!”

(Mitch) ‘Amy?’

Amy, listen to me. Where are you?

And… who have you got married to?

Well, Blake, obviously. We’re in Miami!

Whoo, whoo, whoo!

Amy, I’ve… I’ve never even met the bloke.

Well, you can meet him now as my husband. Here you are!

Alright, Pops!

Oh, f***ing hell.

Oh, f***ing hell.

(Sighs heavily)

(Dinah Washington) ♪ I’m mad about the boy

♪ And I know it’s stupid

♪ To be mad about the boy…

Ta-da!

Beats f***ing Gordon Ramsay.

Oh, too right, baby.

Oh, I got you a little present.

For me.

You shouldn’t have.

For us.

I love you, wifey.

Ha-ha!

I love you, too, baby.

♪ That here and there are traces of the cad

♪ About the boy

♪ Lord knows I’m not a fool girl

♪ I… really shouldn’t care

♪ Lord knows I’m not a school girl

♪ Who’s in the flurry of her first affair

♪ Will it ever cloy… this odd diversity of misery and joy? ♪

(Crowd cheering and clapping)

(Amy muttering)

You may have heard from my…

friends in the press, that I recently got married.

(Crowd cheering and whooping)

Yeah, what they forgot to mention, as usual,

is that I married the fittest, bestest man…

in the world, Blake.

Where are you, baby?

F***’s sake!

Wow. Look at you.

So lucky.

(Crowd) Ah!

Play it.

(Mouths words)

(Woman) Go on, Amy!

♪ There is no greater love

♪ Than what I feel for you

♪ No sweeter song

♪ No heart so true

(Blake) Amy, get back here!

♪ There is no greater thrill

(Blake) Amy, you f***ing loon!

Amy!

(Crowd shouting)

♪ No sweeter song

♪ Than what you sing…

(Amy) Stop! Stop! Stop!

♪ You’re the sweetest thing

♪ That I’ve ever known

♪ And to think that you are mine…

I just need some cigarettes. Bless you, darling.

♪ There is no greater love

♪ In all the world… ♪

Excuse me. Have you seen Amy Winehouse?

Nah, sorry, mate.

Have you seen…? F*** it!

Excuse me. Excuse me. Have you seen Amy Winehouse?

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