"We were definitely too much for each other. It was very much right place wrong time or right fella wrong time. "And I was in love at the time and I knew it couldn't work out, you know. Speaking to MTV about her Rehab single, Winehouse offered more insight into their relationship: "I was just going out and playing pool all day, and doing things that were reckless and stupid. Doing silly things, as you do when you're 22 and you're young and in love."Īmy's split with Blake was clearly a theme which dominated the whole record. "And where the guy obviously went back to his ex-girlfriend, I didn't really have anything else to go back to so I guess I went back to a black for a few months, you know. Speaking to CNN in 2007 about the meaning of the track, Winehouse said: "Back To Black is about being in a relationship that when it's finished you go back to what you know, except I wasn't working so I couldn't go and throw myself back into work. While this was always left open to interpretation, there is no doubt over who the single's subject matter.īlack to Black was inspired by Amy's ex at the time, Blake Fielder-Civil, who had left her for a former girlfriend.Īmy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil at Glastonbury in 2007. There are different interpretations of the words "back to black," with some critics thinking it means to depression, some drink and others heroin. Like with most of her work, Back To Black is deeply personal, coming from Winehouse's own heartache and written after suffering from a breakup. Ronson may have had a lot to do with Back To Black's unmistakeable sound, but the lyrics came from Winehouse herself. This unlikely collab was given the thumbs up by Amy, leading the pair to work together over the next few weeks tracks which went on to form her hit album.
So I came up with this little piano riff, which became the verse chords to Back to Black."
"So she played me some of those records, which turned into a crash course in girl-group productions… I told her that I had nothing to play her right now but if she let me work on something overnight she could come back tomorrow. "I just thought, ‘Let’s talk about music, see what she likes.’ She said she liked to go out to bars and clubs and play snooker with her boyfriend and listen to the Shangri-Las. “She told me she presumed I was some old guy with a beard – like Rick Rubin," the music producer told Mojo in 2010. Mark Ronson performing on stage with Amy Winehouse at the BRIT Awards 2008.Īs Rolling Stone notes, the pair shared a publishing company which encouraged them to meet in Ronson's studio in New York's Mercer Street. The music for the single was written by Mark Ronson just one day after he met Winehouse, following a conversation the they had about music and 60s girlbands in March 2006. The success of Winehouse's 2006 Back To Black record catapulted her into the mainstream, changing her life irrevocably and transforming her into an international superstar.įrom the album came the heartbreaking title track and its accompanying haunting video, which has gone on to become more poignant that fans ever could have imagined.īack To Black was released on 30 April 2007 via Island records. The troubled singer collaborated with songwriter Mark Ronson to come up with one of the most iconic tracks of the Noughties.Īmy Winehouse's untimely death on 23 July 2011 shocked critics and fans alike, with the music world mourning the troubled singer who had so much more to give after having only released two studio albums.Īmy Winehouse passed away on 23 July 2011.
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