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♪ I never played

♪ Oh what a mess we've made

♪ And now the final frame

♪ Love

- I'll be watching
till I drop dead.

So you know, it'll be good.

- Amy Winehouse
is one of the most iconic

artists of the 21st century.

Her sound, style and honesty
set her apart from the rest

as truly one a kind.

- Amy's music was so
different because nobody

had done it like Amy
Winehouse before.

The lyrics, they tore
at your heart strings.

They had depth.

You could tell that
she'd experienced them.

- I'll always put a
punchline in the song always.

I don't know, I just
try and be different

with my lyrics, definitely.

- Thanks to her
monumental album Back to Black

in 2006, she went on
to be one of the most

award-winning superstars and
the face of British music.

- I just wanna make an album
where I'm doing everything.

I wanna be able to say that
is mine, you know what I mean.

I made this, and it's mine.

- But the
constant fame and attention

came at a price.

With the nonstop
year in, year out war

between her and the media,
Amy Winehouse found herself

caught up in
life-threatening addictions,

class A substance
abuse, self-harm and
toxic relationships.

Inevitably ending
in her tragic demise

that stunned the world.

- Police were called by the
London Ambulance Service

to a house in Camden
Square Northwest One

shortly before 1605 hours today.

According to reports of
a woman found deceased,

and I can confirm that the
deceased is Amy Winehouse.

- Well the thing about
Amy Winehouse was,

there was nothing
mediocre about her,

and she had bucket
loads of soul.

- Witness the
rise and fall of Britain's

most iconic star and the leadup
to her devastating death.

♪ I want to kiss you

♪ But I would not dare

- Born on the
14th of September, 1983,

Amy Winehouse grew up in
Camden Towne in London.

Raised by her parents,
Mitch and Janice Winehouse,

Amy was raised listening
to the soulful sounds

of Frank Sinatra and 1950s jazz.

It was this upbringing
that helped shape her

into the performer she
is known for today.

♪ I hope I never wake up

♪ If you are but

♪ A dream

- I don't think our
house was any different

than anybody else's house.

When I was a small
child, everybody was
singing and dancing,

literally dancing, I
used to ballroom dance,

because there was no television.

So what did people do
to amuse themselves?

They sang, they
danced, they got up.

They'd stand me on the table
at my grandmother's house,

and they'd say, Ladies and
gentlemen, Mitchell Winehouse,

and I'd come out
and I'd do a bow.

And that's how people
entertained themselves.

It was a different when Amy
was growing up, obviously,

when she was a little
kid, but we used to play

the same games, and the
house was full of music

and the extended family that I
had, when I was a little boy,

it was the same when
Amy was a child.

There was my mum.

There was my stepfather, her
husband, Amy's grandfather.

I mean, everyone was
there, my grandparents

were still alive when
Amy was a little girl,

so the house was
always full of people.

And they did the same thing.

Ladies and gentlemen, Amy
Winehouse, and she'd get up

and do a little bow and
then sing a little song.

That's how it started for her.

- Amy was
a natural performer.

At just the age of 14, she
had already learned the guitar

and was writing her own music.

Throughout the rest
of her teenage years,

she developed a
love for hip-hop,
specifically Salt-N-Pepa.

This genre would
further influence her
sound going forward.

- I was very influenced
by jazz and hip-hop,

from maybe, I mean
seriously, that I knew that

it would be the thing, the
direction I would follow

in my life maybe when I was 13,

is when I knew that I would
have to follow that music.

Because there was nothing
else that spoke to me.

And today, you know,
I'm reminded every day

how important music is to me.

People say, it's just music.

Or Lisa from Steps, it's just
a laugh, it's just music.

And you're like, no,
nothing else speaks to me

the way music does, that's
why I'm doing what I'm doing.

- It didn't
long for Amy to get

recognized by record labels.

At just the age of 20, Amy
released her first album,

titled Frank, an incredibly
raw-sounding album

that put her straight
into the public eye

as a real musical talent.

- Amy's debut album,
Frank, was astonishing.

You listened to it, and
you thought, hold on.

It really hit you between
the eyes, hold on,

this voice is astonishing.

Amy wasn't happy with it.

And that would really
go on to flavor the rest

of her career, she
was a perfectionist.

And she didn't think
her record company

had done her justice.

Everyone else thinks it
was wonderful, but you look

forward to Back to Black and
you see perhaps it lacked

the depth of feeling
and experience,

but as a debut album
it was incredible.

- When I first heard Frank,
when I first heard Frank,

I thought, ah, because it's
a frank and honest album.

And then when I heard it a
couple of times, I got it.

It's a play on words as
well, because there's a lot

of Frank Sinatra in there.

She doesn't sound like Sinatra
at any particular time,

but she has a certain
melodic approach

and appreciation that he did.

Both Sinatra and Amy Winehouse
were Caucasian of course,

but they had a deep love of
blues and African American jazz

and it comes through
in their music.

- It's a really versatile
album, and I pushed myself

with every aspect of it.

The music stands up by itself
so that you can have it on

quietly and still
just get the chords

and kinda feel the chords.

And the beats stand up so
much that when you blast

the music, it sounds ridiculous.

And, you know, myself vocally,

I try and do
something interesting

with everything in the songs.

- This is a first album.

This is quite a
statement from somebody.

This is an award-winning
album, it was album of the year

in all these pop magazines
and jazz magazines.

It sold incredibly well
and no one had heard

of this young lady just
a few months before.

And it was incredible to see,
just in a few short months,

she was a household name.

And it's important, I
think, to look back on Frank

and remember, in those wonderful
early days of her career,

she looked healthy, she
sounded wonderfully,

on target, on key, focused.

I'm not just talking about
her voice being on key.

I'm talking about, her
whole approach had focus

and measure and direction,
and it was really great.

With Frank, she's
honest, she's pure.

It's as clean as we're
gonna hear Amy Winehouse,

even though she's got
the suggestive lyrics

and can swear and
so on and so forth.

But it's Amy Winehouse.

- I wouldn't write
anything unless it was

directly personal to me, just
because I wouldn't be able

to tell the story right or
really fill out the song

with words because I
wouldn't have done it.

So all of it is stuff
that I've been through

and, you know, even
though some of it is

personal in a sad way, I would
never let it just be that.

It's very funny, like
I'll put humor in.

I'll always put a punchline
in the song always.

And I don't know, I just
try and be different

with my lyrics, definitely.

♪ You should be
stronger than me ♪

♪ You've been here seven
years longer than me ♪

- Amy Winehouse's music
is very autobiographical.

Doesn't take Sherlock Holmes
to figure that one out.

That first single,
she's looking,

metaphorically, in the lyrics,
for a strong male figure

in her life, in this case
a romantic male figure.

But in real life, she was
looking for a strong male

figure the whole time.

♪ You should be
stronger than me ♪

♪ But instead you're
longer than frozen turkey ♪

♪ Why do you always
put me in control ♪

And it's ironic that in
one of these early videos,

you have her searching
for a strong male

figure who isn't there.

You have her having trouble
with her romantic fellow,

her boyfriend, and that was
much of the story of her life.

And it's crazy to think,
here it is foretold

in this very early video
by this young lady.

I'm not saying she's
clairvoyant or anything,

but it is tragic to
look back at that video,

knowing what we know
about Amy Winehouse now,

and think, oh my God,
in three minutes,

this is the story of
this young lady's life.

- During the
process of promoting Frank

and attending awards
ceremonies, Amy was loving

the endless praise and
attention from her new fans

and the press, but
stated it wasn't going

to change her as a person.

- I first met Amy in
2003 at the Brit Awards.

It was the year before
Frank was released.

To be honest, nobody
really knew who she was.

I was wearing a dress
with lots of tassels on.

She came running up to
me and said, mate, mate,

love the dress, love the dress!

I looked at her, and I
kind of recognized her.

She was this
chubby-faced, young,

energetic, full of life,
having so much fun.

You could see that she
was visibly thinking,

I'm at the Brits, this is
amazing, as we all were.

- It hasn't changed.

I mean, people never used to
come up to me on the street

and say, Oh my God,
you're Amy Winehouse.

People never used to say
that, and they do now,

but I wouldn't say
that's a change.

I mean, that's an obvious
change, but I'm not changing.

I'm not going, Yes, it is
me, yes, it is Amy Winehouse.

I'm going, hello, you got my
album, that's really nice.

Go and buy one for
your mum as well.

Thank you, bye.

My idea of success is just to
have an album in front of you

that is just 100% the
vision in your head, on CD.

Sometimes I think a lotta
people are caught up

in maybe wanting to
win awards or wanting

to write songs for people,
as opposed to what they like,

or, you know, caught up in
wanting people to see them

all the time on the street.

Whereas, I don't even
wear makeup when I'm
not even working.

I think I have a
different set of goals

to the record company,
anyway, definitely.

- Whilst Amy
was rising up the ranks

in the music industry, taking
in all of the new popularity,

she met a music video
production assistant at a bar.

This would be the start of
one of the industry's most

stormy relationships
anyone had ever seen.

That production
assistant would be none

other than Blake Fielder Civil.

- Amy Winehouse and
Blake Fielder Civil,

it has to be the most
destructive relationship

in showbiz history.

They were complete
and utter soulmates.

She adored him, he adored her,

and they almost couldn't
live without each other.

But they also both really
destroyed each other.

- There's no doubt that
Blake Fielder Civil

was the love of Amy's life.

I think when it was
great, it was wonderful.

I think she'd never experienced
happiness like that.

Also fair to say
that she was the one

who had the high-flying career.

He was a runner
for music videos.

She loved him.

She loved the way he looked,
she loved the hats he wore.

She thought that he was
the male version of her.

She thought he was perfection.

- What Amy saw in Blake
was perhaps somebody

who could actually
understand her, and some men

are incredibly good at latching
onto women with problems

to displace focus,
or having to focus

on problems they
themselves have.

And they come across as the
knight in shining armor,

the man on a white steed.

And the woman falls for it,
and she'll think, oh my God,

this man understands
me, he loves me.

He really understands
what I'm going through.

He's going through
something similar to me.

He can connect with me,
and I can connect with him

in a way that I just
can't with anyone else.

And of course, she was known
to carve "I love Blake"

in glass on her stomach.

- Blake Fielder
Civil was infamously the one

who introduced
Amy to hard drugs.

He admitted that in an
East London hotel room,

he was smoking a
10-pound batch of heroin

when he let Amy have a try.

- I've said it before,
and I'll say it again.

He was responsible for
introducing Amy to hard drugs.

Everybody knows this,
Amy's told me this.

The whole world knows it.

The only people that think
it was the other way around

was Blake's parents.

Let's be honest about it.

We all know what the
true situation is.

- Amy's friends and
family have blamed Blake

for introducing
her to hard drugs.

But, every addict is
introduced by someone.

And ultimately, Amy
continued to take drugs.

She seemed to have a very
addictive personality.

And it seemed that they could,
and they both said as much,

they couldn't be
with each other,

they couldn't be
without each other.

They almost loved too much.

- Blake's own mother,
Georgette Fielder Civil,

even partly blames
him for Amy's decline,

because of course
he was a big factor

in getting her hooked on drugs.

However, can you
actually blame someone

for another person's addiction?

Probably not.

But what Blake did was make
drugs, hard-core drugs,

crack cocaine an everyday part
of his relationship with Amy.

And that became everyday
life for her, very quickly.

She had a very
addictive personality.

- An addictive personality,
or a person who is addicted,

is someone whose behavior
is outside of their

conscious control, that it
feels like an involuntary urge

just to do something, and
you'll notice that addictions

get transmitted
from one substance

or one behavior to another.

So, for example, people can
become addicted to alcohol.

They'll move from
alcohol to heroin.

Or they might then
clean up when it comes

to alcohol and heroin, and then
they'll be addicted to porn.

Or they'll be
addicted to shopping,

or then they might be
addicted to gambling.

What it is, it's an overactivity

in the reward
centers of the brain,

so the brain is craving
more and more of the feeling

that the drugs and the
addiction gave them.

But if they stop one addiction,

they need to move on to another.

So it has a very
sad physiological

as well as a
psychological basis,

which is why addicts will
transfer their addiction

from one substance to
another quite easily

or one behavior pattern
to another quite easily.

And after a while, of
course, like anything else,

we are creatures of habit.

And those habits
can be hardwired.

In the same way as a species
we're hardwired for pleasure.

So we're hardwired
to want to activate

the reward centers in our brain.

But all that happens with
say the opioids like heroin,

all that happens,
we overstimulate
the reward centers,

and then we need more and more
and more of that stimulation

as the brain produces
less and less dopamine.

We need more and more
drugs to give ourselves

the feeling that we've lost.

- After a few years
focusing on her relationship

with Blake, Amy
took to the studio

to work on her second album.

Alongside this, Amy started
looking at changing her image

to something that was
much more classical

but also helped her stand out

compared to everyone
else in the industry.

- There's no question that
the Ronettes in particular

but many of the girl groups
influenced Amy Winehouse's

music and look.

Just picking up the tabloids
and looking at pictures of her,

I was struck at how much she
resembled Ronnie Spector.

A lot of the women back in
those days had that haircut,

the beehive haircut
which is also known

as the B-52, hence
the name of the group.

I think when you adapt
that kind of a haircut

that was at the time,
and really now so wildly

out of fashion, that
you're making a statement

and you're making a reference.

There's no question a cultural
reference is being made,

and when you listen to
her music you can hear it.

But the strength of it
isn't that she just did it,

it's why she did it.

It's because she's looking for
something and she's not gonna

stop looking till she finds it.

And it takes the strength of
a certain kind of an artist

to go, I'll go with
something that's not the most

fashionable thing right now.

1960s girl groups from the
Brill Building in New York City,

and I'll adapt that to
my own personal style.

It wasn't something that
was currently in fashion.

The point of Amy Winehouse
is, she's such a strong artist

she made it a fashion, and I
think that's the whole point

of her look and her sound
with that kind of Chiffons,

Shirelles, Ronettes thing.

That's the whole point,
she made it her own.

She didn't just take from
them and imitate them.

She made it her own.

- In May 2006,
Winehouse's demo tracks,

such as You Know I'm
No Good and Rehab,

appeared on Mark Ronson's New
York East Village radio show.

Ronson would later go on to
co-produce Amy's upcoming album.

- He really liked Amy.

The moment they met, he
thought, here's a girl

who's not gonna
take any nonsense,

she knows what she wants.

And he loved her, he said,
because when she didn't think

he was being great,
when his results weren't

fantastic, she told him.

And it worked for them.

That honesty brought
them together and created

absolute dynamite, electricity.

He polished her songs for
Back to Black, perfected them.

And even the harshest
critics have said

they drew on so many influences

while still being
completely original.

And that's impossible
to do, they did it.

- In October
2006, Amy Winehouse releases

her most successful album ever,

and one of the biggest-selling
albums of the 21st century.

Back to Black.

- Back to Black is a
modern masterpiece.

Absolutely no doubts
about it, it will go down

as one of the albums of
our time, absolutely.

But of course the
inspiration behind this album

was Blake Fielder Civil.

And the passion that
she put into that album

was about her passion for
Blake, and of course much of it

was about their first
breakup, which was very

traumatic to her.

She hated the fact
that for a period

he had another girlfriend.

And you can just tell by
the emotions in those songs

how much Amy passionately
cared for him.

- I don't know where she
got the crazy idea to do it,

but I suspect it goes
back to something

we mentioned earlier.

In her family, they played
a lot of these records,

and she appreciated the girl
groups of the early 1960s,

and thought, I could
do something like this.

I think it does kinda go back
to her family, and it also

goes back to a certain
inner strength that she had

to wanna change styles and
do something like that.

And credit to her, Back
to Black does even better

than the first album, and
it really is going down

as one of those
all-time classic albums.

- What made Amy Winehouse's
music so amazing

wasn't just the fact, yeah,
she mixed jazz with soul,

with R&B, but she put so
much soul into her music.

She wrote her songs herself.

I mean, she wrote her
song, it was like putting

her blood and guts on the table.

And that's what
made her so special.

That this is not like some
kind of manufactured pop.

This is somebody who
writes from the heart,

who sings from the heart,
who performs for the heart.

- Every song she writes is
like dragged out of her soul.

It's like cutting her leg
off or something like that.

It's very, very hard for
her, and very emotional.

But that's what makes
her music so great.

- Winehouse's
tempestuous relationship

with Blake was the catalyst

for much of her
destructive behavior.

During one breakup, Winehouse
admitted to drowning

her sorrows in alcohol,
but she used the heartbreak

as impetus in writing music.

Her drug and alcohol intake
increasingly affected

her live performances, as
she turned up to several club

or TV performances too
drunk to complete her set.

Her management company
suggested she enter rehab,

but rather than
take their advice,

she dumped the management
company and turned

the experience into the
catchiest song of her career.

♪ I ain't got the time

♪ And if my daddy
thinks I'm fine ♪

♪ They tried to make
me go to rehab ♪

♪ I won't go go go

- Could you
tell me, how long did it take

you to write Rehab and what was

the inspiration for the song?

- I wrote Rehab in
about 20 minutes,

and it was just, I
wrote it about something

that happened to me.

It wrote itself, it was
just a novelty song,

but it's true, it's something
that happened to me.

And I guess it pretty
much wrote itself.

- Rehab is sadly,
and understandably,

one of Amy Winehouse's
signature songs now.

It's one of the songs
she's most remembered for.

I might be in a party of
one, but I can hardly stand

to hear it, and I can hardly
stand to watch the video.

The irony of this young lady
singing about I don't wanna

go to rehab, when at the
end of the day, we now know

that if there is anyone
that ever should have gone

to rehab, it's Amy Winehouse.

It's easy to have perfect
vision with hindsight,

but there's a theory I've got
that goes roughly like this.

Everybody under 30
thinks they're badass.

Everyone under 30
wants to be badass.

We all leave that as we
grow into adults and mature.

Everybody under
30 thinks they're

indestructible, invincible.

Now we've all had friends that
have died in a horrible way,

maybe cancer too soon or maybe

the tragedy of a drug
overdose or alcoholism.

It's in so many families,
too many families,

and yet it can't happen to me.

And when I look at Rehab,
I see a young lady singing

a catchy pop tune
about the perfectly,

most incredibly wrong subject
she could ever sing about,

coming from where she stands.

And I just can't look at
Rehab and Amy Winehouse

in that video, I can't
listen to it anymore.

As much as I like her as an
artist and enjoy her music,

I can't stand it anymore.

It's the irony and the tragedy,

they're just piled
on top of each other

and it makes me wanna
weep, so I shut it off.

- As her fame
grow, so did speculation

in the press about
her lifestyle.

Her relationship with Blake
was under constant turmoil.

And because of it, she continued
to drink and take drugs.

The pressure of constantly
being in the public eye

also caused Amy to
distance herself

from her friends and loved
ones, most notably Mark Ronson.

- Along the way, Mark
Ronson really tried

to help Amy Winehouse.

It wasn't just that
they worked together.

He viewed her as a personal
friend, they got on very well.

Actually, everyone,
fans, critics,

were really excited when
Mark Ronson announced

he was getting into
the studio to record

the lead song for Quantum
of Solace, the Bond film.

She'd be perfect at
it, the big booming

Shirley Bassey-esque voice but
done in Amy Winehouse style.

But when she turned up,
the drink, the drugs

affected her performance,
she couldn't perform.

He was heartbroken.

If there was a way of piecing
it together, he would have.

He took to Twitter to talk
about it, just explain,

didn't say anything nasty.

Amy took real offense at
this, and gave him a concise,

nasty tweet back saying,
look, you produced one album,

mine, that I wrote, how dare
you piggyback on my fame?

You're not gonna make your
career outta me, Bruv, she said.

He was devastated,
because it was like he was

being cut off from
one of the best people

he'd worked with,
but a great friend.

He had to think, though,
well, the girl's ill.

And I don't think that
it actually affected

the way he thought of her in
the end, because when Amy died

he said, I've lost
my little sister.

- If you look at the way that
Amy dealt with Mark Ronson,

I mean, that's typical really

of any addict, because, you
know, there's the famous song,

You Always Hurt
the Ones You Love.

And with an addict,
they always hurt,

they hurt themselves far more
than they hurt anybody else,

but they always hurt
the ones they love,

because most addicts
are covered with guilt

or shame or they feel, they
judge themselves very harshly

but then they resent
others for judging them.

They withdraw from
social contact.

They feel sometimes incredibly
hostile towards people

who are simply
trying to help them.

And that's just part of
what it is to be an addict.

There is no doubt that
Amy and Mark Ronson

had a great connection, and
sometimes when you're dealing

with any statement
made by an addict,

you've first of all
gotta separate the
drug from the person.

Because, behind all the
drugs, there is a person,

and you've gotta
understand who's speaking.

Is it the drug speaking, or
is it the person speaking?

And I believe that Mark
Ronson was not only

obviously great for Amy
Winehouse, and they had

a very close bond, but I
also believe that when she

attacked Mark Ronson,
deep down, she loved him

and she felt very
connected to him.

And that's the drugs speaking.

On the deluxe version I
think it is of Back to Black,

she does an additional version
of Love Is a Losing Game.

And again, she sings
that with so much heart

and so much soul, and then
when the song's finished,

she turns around at the
end, there's a pause

and you hear her say,
Is that all right?

And, you can see in
that both her brilliance

and her insecurity.

She's just done something
totally incredible,

totally magical, she's done
a rendition of this song

that could move a
stone statue to tears.

She's really delivered this,

and then she goes,
Is that all right?

Because she needed the
approval of others.

She was incredibly, and when
she was performing onstage,

she was sometimes looking for
reassurance from the band.

Sometimes people who are
brilliant sometimes don't

realize quite how
brilliant they are,

and Amy was one of those, and
perhaps it was her brilliance

in some ways, in coping with
that brilliance and the effect

of that brilliance that
drove her to addiction.

♪ Love is a losing game

- Is that all right?

♪ I never played

♪ Oh what a mess we made

♪ And now the final frame

♪ Love

- Some musicians,
I'm the kind of person

that I like pressure, I
work best under pressure

and there's a bunch
of people like that,

but it must be a bit
nerve-wracking like,

I won the Mercury, I
have to be consistent.

But you can't think
about that, I'm sure.

- In 2007, Amy
and Blake set out to Miami

to have a relaxing,
romantic getaway

from the endless
media attention.

It was here where the
two got secretly married,

once again shocking journalists,

Amy's friends and her family.

- There is no doubt
that the relationship

between Amy Winehouse and Blake

was a codependent relationship.

And what that means
in practical terms

was that each one of
them needed the other one

to continue their dependency

on a very destructive
behavior pattern.

That's essentially
what it means.

Rather than the two of
them connecting to build

a better life together
or to start a family

or two envisage your
future together,

what they're doing is they're
taking the harsher edges

and the more addictive edges
of each other's personality

and they're fixing on those.

And each one of
them needs the other

to sustain their destructive
behavior pattern.

- They say
the best things are born

of kind of destructive
relationships.

Now you're a happily
married woman,

what can we expect from
you song writing wise?

Happy songs?

- Yeah yeah, happy songs,
Care Bears, theme change.

- Your
dad said he was unhappy

he didn't walk you
down the aisle.

Are you gonna have another
do here in England?

- Definitely will, definitely
do something proper.

Definitely.

- Was he
angry with you, was he okay?

- No, he's fine, he's fine.

What's he gonna do?

After returning
from their Miami trip,

Amy went back to performing
onstage and attending

regular award shows looking
fresh-faced and revitalized.

- Are there
some people you've picked out

that you wanna go
and shat to later?

- I'd love to go and
meet Quincy Jones.

I've got to find Mick Jones.

I was really chucked
to see him here.

I love Mick Jones,
he's a legend.

Oh yes.

So yeah, I'm sure
there's lots of people

I don't even know are here.

- But unfortunately,
it was around this time

where her relationship
with the press

became increasingly heated.

With new stories about her
releasing almost every day,

Amy's changing personality
was really starting to show

during her interviews.

- Amy's relationship with
the press really changed

from a cheerful girl who
was very open and loving,

because she had nothing to hide.

This was all new to her.

This was an amazing experience.

It's what she always wanted.

- I've worked really hard,
and I've been recognized

for that with the nomination.

That's such an amazing thing.

I feel real proud
of myself for that,

and lucky.

- She became more closed
when she had more to hide,

when her management said to
her, Do not talk to press.

She was out of it.

So she could have told any
journalist a fantastic story,

and increasingly she would
have more and more people

around her when she
was out and about,

trying to stop her from giving
people what they wanted.

- You know, you're standing
on this young lady's foot?

Have you noticed that?

- She's
not young, and I wasn't.

- Amy, so many
songs come out of bad times--

- Can you hear him,
rude, you were.

- Amy, so many
songs come out of bad times

in life, the creative
processs is often motivated

from the bad times.

Now you're a happily
married woman,

are you worried about it
impacting your career?

- No, not really.

- People generally are
appreciative of her,

and they love her, and she
likes to be with people.

But what can it be
for a young woman

who really can't leave her house

without the fear
of being hounded?

It's very, very difficult.

It's very, very difficult,
and I can't imagine

what it's like for her.

- She's almost
a prisoner in her own home.

- Well I would say she is
a prisoner in her own home,

for want of a better phrase.

Although she can go out, she's
not restricted in any way.

If she wants to go
out, she can go out,

but it's difficult and she would
think twice about going out

now without bodyguards,
and what's that all about?

With all the success, you know,

there isn't a peace of
mind and there isn't

any kind of relaxation, and
I'm not talking about Amy,

but you can understand why
people in that position

do turn to alternative means
of relaxation unfortunately.

- That following
year, whilst in Bergen, Norway,

Amy, Blake and a friend
were all arrested

at their hotel for
marijuana possession.

They were found with seven grams
and were fined 715 dollars.

Soon after this event, Blake
was sentenced to 27 months

in jail for his part in
an assault on a bar owner

and a subsequent
attempt to cover up

the crime with a bribe.

- He's made a good
effort in prison.

It's been hard for him.

He's made an effort, and
he's been mainly successful,

but I don't think
he's clean now,

and when he comes out,
he needs and will go

straight into rehab.

He has promised me that
he's gonna make that right,

and I'm gonna give him a
chance to make it right.

But you know, we're gonna give
him the benefit of the doubt.

The first thing he's gotta
do is he's gotta get himself

clean, because if he goes
back into the relationship

with Amy not clean,
it's gonna be

a complete recipe for disaster.

He knows what he's got to do.

He loves Amy dearly.

She loves him dearly.

And, as a family, we wanna
do what's best for Amy.

I think that they can
have a happy ending.

- Going
into 2008 saw Amy

at the lowest point
in her whole career.

In January, a video surfaced
of Amy smoking crack.

- I think one of Amy's
all-time career lows was when

a newspaper in the UK actually
filmed and then broadcast

video of Amy taking crack
cocaine, and everyone knew

just how bad things had got.

Ironically, as well, Blake,
who was meant to be the love

of her life and who
was in many ways,

sold his story
many times on Amy.

He was so desperate for
money he'd make a couple

of thousand pounds
here and there

for spilling the most
intimate details of her life.

Now in most normal relationships
that would be the end

of it, but Amy always
ran back to Blake

no matter what he did.

- Weeks later,
she checks into rehab.

But even though her
drug addiction is
finally being treated,

another troubling
problem becomes clear.

- The photos we would get
in of Amy on a weekly basis

during the real depths of her
drug addiction relationship

with Blake were just
traumatic, and I think nothing

was more traumatic than
the photo of Amy's ballet

pump shoes covered in blood.

Most people believe that that
was because she had actually

been injecting heroin
between her toes.

It was grim, it was awful,
and here was this icon

of our times, reduced to that.

- Amy had
also been self-harming.

A number of cuts appeared
prominent on both of her arms.

Addressing the tender subject,
Amy stated that self-harm

to her started as
a morbid curiosity

but became a way for her
to deal with her stress.

Her self-destructive
tendencies only amplified

when she became intoxicated.

- Self-harm is a
complex phenomenon.

It's estimated that one
in 15 teenage girls,

sometimes more,
actually self-harm to
some degree or other.

Now, if you imagine sometimes,
when we get something wrong,

we sometimes beat ourselves
up, we sometimes say, Oh God,

if only I'd done better,
if only I'd done this,

if only I'd done that.

Well self-harming begins
from a position very often

of low self-esteem, of
some trauma, some pain,

and rather than try and deal
with the trauma or manage

the pain, because maybe the
support network isn't there,

because the emotional
maturity isn't there,

because the emotional
tools aren't there,

people go into a
cycle of self-harm.

Because by self-harming,
they're doing two things really.

On the one hand, they're
exerting some control

over the problem, because at
least if they're self-harming

it's something they are
doing to themselves.

It gives them some
control over a problem

that they feel they
have no control over.

And the other aspect of
self-harm, of course, is it

does numb the pain that
actually drove them

to start self-harming
in the first place.

So for example, some people
who have been sexually abused

will self-harm, or some people
who've gone through some

trauma as children,
they'll begin to self-harm.

It's just another strategy to
ease the pain, and that too

can become a compulsive
behavior pattern,

just like any other addiction.

- When Amy was self-harming,
and that happened

when she was in her
relationship with Blake,

and at times they even
appeared to do it together.

That was, for me, one of
the most unsavory parts

of her decline,
because you just knew

something was really, really
wrong to be doing that.

I mean, she was just married,
she was with the guy,

she had all the success
she wanted in the world,

so why was she self-harming?

It just, it made no sense.

In the end, the record
company just gave up

on Amy in a lot of ways.

They didn't wanna put any
pressure on her to release

a third album or to
record a third album,

because they knew how
emotionally vulnerable

and fragile she was, so
actually, because I think

they felt the stakes were
so high, Back to Black

was such a brilliant record,
they weren't gonna release

something until they
knew it was spot on.

- It was also
clear that Amy was becoming

worryingly skinny and frail.

She was suffering from a tragic
eating disorder, bulimia.

This, combined with her
dangerous binge-drinking habits

and drug use, meant
that Amy's body

was being pushed to
its absolute limits.

Late 2008, Amy made public

she had an early
stage of emphysema.

- It's quite shocking
that Amy was diagnosed

with emphysema in her
mid-20s, really young.

And her friends said that she
could drink vodka all day.

That combined with
medication or drugs,

and it could just have
been a lethal cocktail.

For a 27-year-old
girl, she looks great

when she was able
to doll herself up,

put on the makeup,

but you could tell
sometimes she was very thin.

I think the real tragedy
is that there were glimmers

of hope, that sometimes
she did look okay,

she was trying to write songs,

she was able to
perform now and then.

And that's the real tragedy,

that we thought she
might just get there.

- But what's interesting
and what's little understood

really, and Amy Winehouse
made a point about this,

she said alcohol was
worse than heroin.

She said alcohol is a
real poison, she said.

And if you look at the
effect both on themselves

and on others, alcohol
is by far and away

one of the most dangerous and
socially destructive drugs.

It just happens to be legal,
it's an accident of history

or whatever, it just
happens to be legal.

So, just because a
drug's legal doesn't mean

it's safe, it doesn't
mean it can't ravage you

as much as the most,
supposedly, the most

blacklisted of illegal drugs.

- I met Mitch twice
and interviewed him

extensively both times.

The first was the first time
he'd actually publicly been

interviewed, and it was when
Amy was really quite ill.

And I said to him, it must
be heartbreaking for you

to know that people have
almost penned her obituary,

because they're waiting, and
he said, you know, Martel,

it's something I've
done myself, mentally.

I've penned her
obituary many times.

What's tragic is that
that came to pass.

When I interviewed
Mitch the second time,

and he was more buoyant.

He was talking about
Amy's boob job.

He was talking about
her inspiration.

Part of it came from him, he
used to sing Frank Sinatra

songs to her, and his concern
was still there, obviously.

His daughter was
troubled, still addicted.

But he seemed more
hopeful than he had been

six, seven years ago.

- How's
Amy doing at the moment?

- She's doing pretty good.

I think she's made a
very good recovery.

And clearly there's
a long way to go

in a lotta senses,
but she's doing fine.

- You see
her on a daily basis.

People pick up the papers
and they see what they see.

Tell us about the girl
you know, the girl you see

and the person behind
the tabloid headline.

- Well, I mean, she's
my daughter, obviously,

and as my daughter,
I love her very much.

And she's a great, she's
a member of our family

and we're a very
strong family unit.

But clearly she's in
a vulnerable condition
at the moment.

She needs to perhaps

be more aware of the
consequences of her
actions right now.

- By mid-2008,
the world was moved

by the tragic downfall of
Amy and her ongoing battle

against addiction
and substance abuse.

She once again went back into
rehab and this time looked

to be trying to change her ways

and to the help of
family and friends.

- She recognized that
she had a problem,

perhaps six months ago.

She felt that whatever
she was involved with,

the drug addiction,
she could handle it

and she could stop it
whenever she chose.

I mean, clearly,
she was deluded.

That isn't the case, she can't
do that and she needs help.

And we are guided, as I've
said many times before,

we are guided by the most
fantastic team of physicians.

My first reaction would
be to pick her up,

put her somewhere safe, lock
her away until she gets better.

She has freedom of choice
to do whatever she chooses.

But clearly, the impetus
is moving forward

and she's in a much
better position

than she was six months ago.

- Unfortunately,
because of Amy's rehab visits,

the press were mounting
pressure on the star.

Daily articles criticized
the star and the lack

of responsibility of her family.

- Well I can't imagine
that even the tabloids

are willing her not to recover.

Of course, there isn't a story
there if she does recover.

I mean, clearly, there's
not much of a story

if she gets better.

And I've tried several times
to impart some good news

to the tabloids, and sometimes

they haven't really
been interested.

But clearly, the way
things are at the moment,

Amy's vulnerable,
she's a target.

And people understand, they
know how the tabloids work.

And it's not as if they have
put a bounty on her head

and said, if you get into
an altercation with Amy

it could be worth
five or 10,000 pounds,

but it's kind of an unspoken,

implicit agreement between the
tabloids and the population.

That is, if you can rough
up a star, or better still,

if you can get
thumped by a star,

you're on a winner,
you're on a winner.

And that's basically
the problem.

- In January
2009, Amy Winehouse escapes

the spotlight in a
two-month getaway

on the small Caribbean
island of St. Lucia.

When she returns to the
UK, she's looking happier

and healthier than ever.

There was hope that her life
was finally turning around.

But despite getting help
for her drug addiction,

she continued drinking heavily.

To make things worse, after
numerous fights and arrests,

her relationship with Blake
ends in a fiery divorce.

- I've been away for two months.

What the fuck is going on?

- The point about addiction
and the point about addicts

is that we can't separate
normal people from addicts.

Normal people fall in love.

Normal people have all
the rush of dopamine,

all the pleasure chemicals
in the brain being released

when they fall in love.

And that's there for good
evolutionary reasons.

That's why we reproduce,
that's why we build families,

that's why we get married.

It's why we find our soulmates.

But sometimes,
sometimes, that process

kind of gets
overwhelming for people.

And in the case of Blake and
Amy, their addiction to drugs

was a mirror of their
addiction to each other.

And there's only one way
in which their personal

relationship to drugs and
their personal relationship

with each other could end,
and that was in destruction.

It had to end that way,

because they were fueling
each other's dependency,

not only on drugs but
also on each other.

- On top of
all that, in late 2009,

going into 2010, Amy struggled
with several legal disputes,

arrests and intoxicated
misdemeanors.

Her drinking had only gotten
worse, and as a result,

her career was
beginning to suffer.

Family and friends once
again reached out for help,

with big stars like Tony Bennett

wishing her a speedy recovery.

- I wish her the best.

I hope that she
straightens out with that,

and it would help
so many of her fans,

so that she was able to do it.

- Do you think the people
around her need to be

stepping up really and
taking a little bit

more control in helping her?

- It's really up to her.

She's gonna have to be the
one to just say wait a minute,

because one thing about
drugs, it finally gets to you.

You don't get to
it, it gets to you.

- May 2011,
Amy Winehouse announces

to the world that she
will return to rehab

to battle her crippling
alcohol addiction.

Just six days later,
Amy checks herself out

of the rehab facility,
declaring that she has finished

an assessment and is raring
to go on her European tour.

The tour was to be
Amy's comeback to
rebuild her reputation,

but it would prove to
do just the opposite.

Whilst in Belgrade, Serbia,

Amy's comeback tour
turns into a nightmare.

Amy struggles to stand
up, slurs her words

and doesn't even get
through a single song.

She's too drunk to perform.

The angered crowd boo the
27-year-old off the stage.

And the comeback
tour is canceled.

Amy Winehouse would never
perform onstage again.

- This show was a complete
and utter shambles.

It was the worst
yet, and believe me,

there'd been some pretty bad
Amy Winehouse performances.

However, she was booed offstage,
she threw the microphone

into the crowd, she
didn't remember her words,

and of course in this
modern day of YouTube,

it all ended up on the
internet within a few hours.

And at that point, there was
huge pressure on her management

because so many questions
were being asked.

Why was she on tour
in the first place?

So as a result of
that criticism, they
actually canceled

the rest of her European
tour and she came home,

and they said they were
going to focus on her health.

Now again, is there an
argument to say, actually,

maybe she was safer when she
was on the road and performing

because at least she had her
support network around her,

at least she was
doing something?

But the fact of the matter
is, when I saw her onstage

during that shambolic
performance in Belgrade,

I just thought,
this is not right.

This is not a woman
who should be onstage,

she should not be performing,
something has to be done here.

- As Amy returns
to her home in Camden,

the media focuses on
her tour's failure,

endlessly criticizing
her addiction

and lack of
self-control once again.

After reflecting on her poor
performance during the tour,

Amy seems to be
preparing to change

her life for the better.

She makes a number of
phone calls to her friends

and fellow musicians,

promising a better
and brighter future.

She discusses plans,
hopes and her goals.

She had a purpose again.

But unfortunately, Amy's
life was soon to be over.

- As a dad,
what would your greatest

wish be for Amy's future?

- Well, for her to be well.

For her to have a
loving relationship,

with whoever she chooses to
have that loving relationship

with, could be Blake.

To carry on her
fantastic relationship

with the family that we have,

and to do whatever it
is that makes her happy.

She wants to have a family.

Maybe that'll be her drug
of choice, family, children.

She'd love to have
children, but of course,

again, not as far as Amy's
concerned, but generally,

people who are addicted
to drugs, it's unwise

for people to have children

because their children
could be born as addicts.

She understands all
of these things,

and all of these
things are helping her

to begin to make
the right choices.

- And as a dad,
I'll ask another question.

What would be your biggest fear?

- Well my biggest fear
is that she would die.

- On the
23rd of July, 2011,

Amy Winehouse was found dead

by her bodyguard, Andrew Morris.

The cause of death
was proclaimed

to be due to alcohol poisoning.

- Police were called by the
London Ambulance Service

to a house in Camden
Square, Northwest One,

shortly before 1605 hours today.

Upon arrival, officers found
the body of a 27-year-old

female, who was pronounced
dead at the scene.

Next of kin have been informed,

and I can confirm that the
deceased is Amy Winehouse.

- I picked up the phone,
and Andrew [sighs],

Andrew was crying.

And he said, you
gotta come home.

I said, is she dead?

He said, yeah, Amy's dead.

Immediately, in my mind, it
was like my mind had emptied.

- There's no doubt
Amy was still in love

with Blake at the
end of her life.

She really couldn't accept
that he was with another girl,

that he had a child.

What's really heartbreaking
is that Amy Winehouse said,

I love singing, but I
was put on this Earth

to be a wife and to be a mother.

And she was a wife to Blake,
but she never got to be

the mother that she
so craved to be,

and she had to watch
the love of her life

have this child
with somebody else.

Indeed, Blake's partner came
forward to say that he's

absolutely devastated
about her death

and that she kinda knows
that she's always going

to be second best to Amy.

She saw them together,
Amy and Blake,

and said they were soulmates.

Which is quite hard
for a woman to accept,

that you're never
going to match up

to the love of your
partner's life.

- The cycle from
being a young woman

with such extraordinary
raw talent to being dead

at the age of 27,
was a tragic cycle,

and it's one we've
seen many times before.

That's something
called the Club 27.

This is of all the
great rock-and-roll
artists who've died,

and it began with
Robert Thompson in 1938,

when he died at 27.

And look at the names,
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin,

Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain.

These are all people,
Brian Jones of the Stones,

these are all people
who died at 27.

And sometimes people get
on a certain trajectory,

and come hell or high
water, you can't stop them

and they can't stop themselves.

- Amy's funeral
was on the 26th of July.

The ceremony was attended
by all of her family,

as well as some of
her industry friends

such as Mark Ronson
and Kelly Osbourne.

It was a loving final
goodbye to the young,

sadly troubled star.

Not long after Amy's funeral,
the media went into looking

for who was to blame
for Amy's death

and turned their attention
to her ex-husband,

Blake Fielder Civil.

- Blake got some bad press,
and sometimes it was deserved.

What is wrong is
to blame anybody

for somebody else's death.

Amy was an addict.

Every addict is
introduced by someone,

and ultimately they have
to take responsibility.

Georgette, who's Blake's
mother, said that they were

soulmates, Amy and
Blake, but they were both

as bad as each other.

They both dragged each other
down, and it's well known

that when two addicts get
together and they're in

a relationship, if one
tries to get clean,

the other will often
bring them back.

It's like, if two people
smoke, one of them smoking,

the other will give in and
say, well, I'll have one.

They were both as
bad as each other,

and they loved
each other so much

that it destroyed Amy.

I don't think Blake
will ever get over this.

I think Blake loved
Amy every bit as much

as Amy loved him, and it
is unfair to paint him

as a callous character
who killed her.

People do say that,
and it's very unfair,

because here's a man who
asked not to get a penny

in divorce and who says
that he loved her so much

but couldn't be with her,
couldn't be without her.

They were both exactly the same.

- I mean, Amy had been given
a lot of help for a long time,

so she was seeing a
doctor up until she died.

She was, ironically, an
outpatient of the Priory,

the big rehab facility in the UK

at the time of her death.

So there is an argument that
she was being looked after.

At the same time, I believe
there will always be questions

about whether enough
had been done.

I mean, why wasn't she
sectioned, for example,

that's a question that I
think will potentially haunt

some of the people close to her.

Did she need more people
around her 24 hours a day?

She had one bodyguard,
but maybe she needed

more caregivers in the house
checking on her once an hour.

I mean, look, it's one of these
things where it's very easy

in hindsight, you don't
want to blame anyone.

But I do think some questions
about whether she was being

looked after in the right
way are obviously valid,

because for whatever
reason, it didn't work.

She died, so there have
to be some questions.

♪ Love is a losing game

♪ Five-Story fire as you came

♪ Love is a losing game

♪ One I wished I never played

♪ Oh, what a mess we made

♪ And now the final frame

♪ Love

- The terms legend and
genius when it comes

to singer-songwriters
are way too overused.

Amy deserves them,
she absolutely does.

There's only one album
that was amazing,

but my God what an album it was.

It will be played forever.

And Amy Winehouse, it's
not just the songs.

There was only
one Amy Winehouse.

There was only one girl
with the daft hair,

and she had her look, she had
her sound, and she was loved.

- I think she will,
fundamentally in the end,

be remembered for her
voice, which was so unique.

But I also think she should
be remembered as a songwriter.

Incredible lyrics,
incredible melodies,

and also she was groundbreaking
because, remember,

at the time when Amy
burst onto the scene,

it was all about Britney Spears
and those sorts of artists,

and she paved the way
for the likes of Adele.

And I don't believe we
would have Adele, who's now

the biggest recording
star in the world,

if we hadn't had Amy
Winehouse before her.

- The one thing that
has to be said, though,

that somewhere with a
woman like Amy Winehouse

who had such enormous
talent, such huge talent,

and lived so much on the
edge and fought so valiantly

against her addiction,
people kind of identify

with that kinda struggle.

People think, you know what,

there but for the
grace of God go I.

And in some way, they just
wanna give her a tribute.

Well, you might
not have made it,

but you did your best,
and that's what matters.

And Amy Winehouse once said, I
don't ever wanna be mediocre.

She says, and she talked
about people in the chart,

she says, they have no soul.

Well the thing about
Amy Winehouse was,

there was nothing
mediocre about her.

And she had bucket
loads of soul.

That's why she
should be remembered,

and that's why people really
wanna pay tribute to her.

- Yeah, we had it in
a very short time.

We had some amazing
times together.

We got to make some
great music, and then,

forever grateful because
she kind of is the reason

I have a career
really, you know.

- You know, every
maybe 10, 15 years,

you get a great one that
comes along, and that was her.

They don't come
along very often.

She was very unique, and she
started a whole new style.

Adele and all these
girls couldn't be here

if it wasn't for Amy.

She started something.

She made it about the voice
again, and that was amazing.

Not about looking pretty
and all that stuff,

it was about pure
talent, you know.

- During
her life, Amy set up

the Amy Winehouse Foundation,
which worked to prevent

the effects of drug and
alcohol misuse on young people.

Soon after her death, her
father Mitch, mother Janice

and stepmother Jane all worked
to help keep the foundation

going and attending
events in Amy's honor.

- As her
dad, it must be difficult,

but do you have an overriding
favorite memory of Amy?

- Well, you know,
there are so many

it's difficult to
know where to begin.

- Her humor.

- Her humor, I mean, I
was just talking before

about, I think two months
after Back to Black came out,

she was number one
all over the world.

She was Adele and Lady
GaGa rolled into one,

and she said to me, Dad,
let's go for a walk in SoHo.

And we started at the
top of Wardour Street,

and we're walking down, and
she said, Just a sec, Dad.

She went into the Caribbean
restaurant, went downstairs

and she was talking to
her friend down there,

and the cook, her name's Aunty,

and she knew all about her
and all about her family,

and then we came
out and then we went

into Ryman's, the stationer,
she knew all the girls

in there, then we
went, you know,

everywhere she stopped,
she knew everybody

and genuinely knew
everything about them.

I remember looking at her
and thinking, you know what,

there are not a lot of
young women in your position

that would bother
with this kinda stuff.

- Like a mum.

- My mum was
exactly the same,

and that made me
so proud of her.

She was just a
normal, normal girl,

with obviously an
extraordinary talent.

- After she went, we didn't
know how we were gonna carry on.

But the foundation has
given us a purpose.

It's really important,
and it helps.

It's really helped
all the family

to come to terms with her loss.

♪ We said goodbye

♪ I died 100 times

- Amy's legacy
will forever be remembered.

Despite making the headlines
everywhere for her troubled

relationships and her
dependency on alcohol and drugs,

it was her music that
helped her stand out

and relate to audiences
all over the world.

Although she tragically
died at just the age of 27,

her music will forever live on

and continue to inspire
up-and-coming artists.

And it's safe to say,

everyone will always remember
the name Amy Winehouse.

- It can be draining when
you have written a song

about something very,
very serious to you.

It can be draining, but
also it gives you energy.

You can get energy
from writing a song

about something personal because

you are kind of shaking it off.

And once you put it in a
song, that's it, it's done.

For me, or once I have
put situations in song

I'm cool about them, and
I think, yeah, dusted.

I'm cool now.

It does go bath ways, yeah.