New Amy Winehouse Doc About the Making of Back to Black Announced
Winston Cook-Wilson // September 19, 2018
A new documentary about Amy Winehouse has been announced. Unlike the Oscar-and-Grammy-winning 2015 doc Amy, the new Winehouse film, entitled Amy Winehouse – Back to Black, will not see a theatrical release; it is being served straight to VOD and DVD/Bluray. The movie covers the making of Winehouse’s second and final album, 2006’s Back to Black, and features unreleased footage of the late singer-songwriter. Also included are new interviews with the album’s producers, Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, and other musicians involved with the record.
The film is also being released with a bonus feature on all platforms: a newly unearthed private performance by Winehouse from 2008 on the night of the Grammy Awards, at which Winehouse won five awards including the New Artist and Pop Vocal Album awards, called An Intimate Evening in London.
Earlier this year, producer Gil Cang posted an unreleased demo of Winehouse recorded in 2001, when she was 17 and searching for a record label. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black will be released by Eagle Vision on November 2. You can preorder the movie here
1. "i'll watch this. and i didn't know about the demo released earlier this ..." In response to Reply # 0
do you know what it's called?
and about the doc, i guess the difference between this and Amy is this one is focused solely on the album/music? the music is so woven into her personal life, i'm sure there will be some similarities. but i'll still check it out. i love Amy Winehouse.
London-based producer Gil Cang has shared a previously unreleased song demo from Amy Winehouse, “My Own Way,” which the late singer recorded in his studio in Camden in 2001. According to Cang, Winehouse recorded the demo at age 17 to shop around to record companies; she would sign to Simon Fuller’s 19 Management a year later.
“It was at a particularly dire time in the pop world – lots of terrible, terrible girl bands and boy bands and we had to make something for them,” Cang said in an interview with Camden New Journal. “Amy came in to see us, opened her mouth and just blew us all away.”
Though the 2015 documentary Amy included several demos, it was later revealed in a Billboard feature on Winehouse that Universal Music U.K. CEO David Joseph destroyed at least a dozen others in order to prevent a posthumous release. “It was a moral thing,” he said. “Taking a stem or a vocal is not something that would ever happen on my watch. It now can’t happen on anyone else’s.” However, after rediscovering this early demo in his studio, Cang thought it best to put it out for the general public, despite her former label’s wishes. “I found it again last week and thought – I’ll put it out there so people could hear it.”
The demo recalls 90s R&B, with Winehouse’s raspy, souful vocal lending her signature warmth to the track. Listen to “My Own Way” below, and read our 2007 cover story on Amy Winehouse.
As Back to Black is one of my favorite albums of all time and Amy one of my very favorite artists. The Amy doc from a few years back was really, really well done. Hopefully this one will be on that level.
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6. "I can't say that BTB is one of my favorites" In response to Reply # 5
>As Back to Black is one of my favorite albums of all time and >Amy one of my very favorite artists.
but I go back to it pretty often and it's really held up. just a brilliant set of recordings that flow so well from one song to the next. it's one of my listening experience joints where I put it on to enjoy it in full
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