Winehouse came up with the “Rehab” hook while walking down the street with Ronson. So I came up with this little piano riff, which became the verse chords to ‘Back to Black.’ Behind it I just put a kick drum and a tambourine and tons of reverb.” Winehouse approved, and over the next two weeks, the pair “fleshed out five or six songs.”ģ. … 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. So she played me some of those records, which turned into a crash course in girl-group productions. 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. (Before she met him, “I thought he was just some big hip-hop beats geezer,” Winehouse recalled to The Irish Times in 2006, but she later told The Sun that he was “the coolest man out there.”) “It was in New York, March 2006, in the studio I used to have on Mercer Street,” Ronson recalled to Mojo in 2010. Ronson and Winehouse shared a publishing company, which encouraged a meeting between the two. Mark Ronson wrote the music for Back to Black‘s title track the night after he met Winehouse. I’ve been listening to ’60s bands and girl groups and it came out in the writing on Back to Black.” She cited the Velvelettes (mistaken for the Velvet Underground by the British tabloid) and the Shangri-Las as two of the groups who influenced her writing, adding, “There’s a lot of bands which are ’60s-influenced at the moment, but I guess I’m the only girl doing it.”Ģ. “These songs are more accessible than the tracks on Frank, as jazz is quite elitist. “I’m not a jazz girl any more,” Winehouse told the British paper The Sun in 2006. Winehouse turned to girl groups and other Sixties sounds to escape the jazz influences on her debut Frank. Here are 10 compelling facts about the album and the frenzy that surrounded it.ġ. Back to Black, which features Winehouse’s whiskey-soaked voice and arrestingly precise lyrics over taut R&B inspired by the days of Stax and Motown, has only grown in stature, its portrait of love’s hardest moments still resonant a decade after its release and five years after Winehouse’s untimely death. Amy Winehouse‘s second – and final – album came out in the U.K.
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