In honor of my love, Amy Winehouse, who passed away July 23, 2011.
Frankly, my dear, this is a fucking great album!
It’s easy to forget how great of a singer Amy Winehouse was. I think in the last few years of her life, she forgot that as well. Everything was drugs and booze and drama, and she really was lost and unfocused and struggling. That’s what most people remember about her, unfortunately. How sad. Noel Gallagher of Oasis was asked about her a few months after she passed away.
What I thought at the end was, ‘It’s bad when the music can’t pull you out of it’, because music is generally a shining beacon in somebody’s life. I took a lot of drugs, but eventually worked out that I prefer music to anything else in the world. I shed a whole circle of friends to – and I’m not being melodramatic here – keep myself alive. Music is the greatest thing…
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