Winehouse has sold a sum of 855,000 albums since her death in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan. Comparatively, she moved 58,000 in all of 2010 and 44,000 in 2011 before she died. (In the eight days following her death, she sold 110,000 albums.) Tony Bennett See latest video...
Mitch Winehouse struck up a relationship with his colleague Jane shortly after his daughter was born. "The children used to call Jane 'Daddy's work wife.' I did not leave home until Amy was ten, so the situation occurred for another eight or nine years before I left home. It was ...
her musical gifts only barely explored over two sensational albums,FrankandBack to Black. The latter became a worldwide hit, spinning off multiple singles, including the title track, and winning five Grammy awards, all before Winehouse turned 25. ...
Amy Winehouse biopic "Back to Black," directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, will be released by Focus Features May 10.
The film will follow Winehouse’s life and rise to fame before dying of an alcohol and drug overdose in July 2011. Multiple projects have since been in the works attempting to capture Winehouse’s legacy, with Noomi Rapace previously attached to star in a Lotus Entertainment vehicle. Tania Ray...
According to the distributor, “‘Back to Black’ is a never-before-seen glimpse into Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the release of her groundbreaking studio album, ‘Back to Black.’ Told from Amy’s perspective, the film is an unapologetic look at the woman behind th...
Was Amy Winehouse really that good? She was. Is her death truly so tragic? It is. In April 2009, I wrote the this about her for Reveal Magazine: "I once sat right behind Amy Winehouse during Jools Holland's Hootenanny. She still had her Beehive and she was very engrossed with her ...
A portrait of Amy Winehouse the artist threaded together from extracts from interviews she gave to the BBC for a variety of documentary projects including the Jazz and Soul Britannia series on FOUR, much of which material is previously unbroadcast, blended with performances from across her career,...
Amy Winehouse's death was tragic, but not exactly a surprise. Something about losing PSH feels like more of a personal loss. I'm more affected by it than other celebrity deaths, in part because of how talented he was and how much I love his movies. There's no better actor out ...
and sadness in responses to yesterday's news thatPhilip Seymour Hoffman had diedof a heroin overdose. It was public knowledge that he'd struggled with addiction in his youth, and again recently, but he wasn't exactly a hellion bent on his own self-destruction. Amy Winehouse's death was tr...