Amy Winehouse photographed for Dazed & Confused in 2003.
I've got to say, I'm sort of in two minds about Amy Winehouse's death. I've been listening to her music all morning, and occasionally she'll do something absolutely incredible with her voice and I'll feel like crying. But at the same time, it had to be expected. The police are still treating her death as "unexplained". I mean, come on. She spiralled out of control a long time ago. It was only a matter of time, really. And if you watch the news at the moment, the Amy Winehouse story is the first one they'll cover - all this horrible, horrible stuff that's going on in Norway and they put Amy Winehouse on first? It's not right.
But still, her death is a tragedy. She undoubtedly had one of the most incredible voices of her generation and it's a very sad thing.
Dazed & Confused have re-published her first ever interview with them on their website:
D&C: So, your parents being into jazz and folk didn’t make you want to rebel against that?
Amy Winehouse: Not really, at all, because while I had this music going on the parallel was at school I was doing very cheesy, musical theatre, very over the top. I knew I wanted to perform and the only thing I could think of to do, which was close to what I wanted to do, was I wanted to sing and I wanted to dance and I wanted to act, all at once. Musicals are the only thing you do with that kind of thing. I just realised it wasn’t for me, it took me a good two or three years of doing tap and doing ballet and singing “Where Is The Love?” and all that cheesy shit. It took me a good while to realise that I loved the songs in the musicals, the actual songs. But I preferred them when they were taken out of their context in the musical and messed around with by someone like the Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell, you know.
Read the full article at dazeddigital.com
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