“I have this dream to be very famous. To work on stage. It’s a lifelong ambition. I want people to hear my voice and just, forget their troubles for 5 minutes. I want to be remembered for being a singer, for sell-out concerts & sell-out West-End and Broadway shows. For being just… me.” – An extract from Amy’s audition letter for the Sylvia Young Theatre School, 1997. 🖤
“I have this dream to be very famous. To work on stage. It’s a lifelong ambition. I want people to hear my voice and just, forget their troubles for 5 minutes. I want to be remembered for being a singer, for sell-out concerts & sell-out West-End and Broadway shows. For being just… me.” – An extract from Amy’s audition letter for the Sylvia Young Theatre School, 1997. 🖤
“I’m just someone who is most comfortable when I’m pushing myself in all directions. I could’ve done four albums of jazz standards in a week. Like, that’s not pushing myself, that’s not working. To me, it was important to push myself with the guitar, with the melodies and obviously with the lyrics. The lyrics would take longer than a lot of the rest of the stuff because they’re so important.” – Amy 🖤 📸: @charlesmoriarty
“I’m just someone who is most comfortable when I’m pushing myself in all directions. I could’ve done four albums of jazz standards in a week. Like, that’s not pushing myself, that’s not working. To me, it was important to push myself with the guitar, with the melodies and obviously with the lyrics. The lyrics would take longer than a lot of the rest of the stuff because they’re so important.” – Amy 🖤 📸: @charlesmoriarty
Throughout Amy’s musical career, her fashion sense depended on what was influencing her at that very moment. In the ‘Frank’ era, she wore a lot of vintage clothing often accompanied with hair scarves and high heels. For ‘Back To Black’, she drew inspiration from 1960’s girl-groups like The Shangri-Las and The Ronettes. Her thick winged eyeliner, pin-up tattoos, ballet pumps and backcombed beehive-hairdo stapled Amy as a fashion icon that made her silhouette distinguishable around the world. 🖤
Throughout Amy’s musical career, her fashion sense depended on what was influencing her at that very moment. In the ‘Frank’ era, she wore a lot of vintage clothing often accompanied with hair scarves and high heels. For ‘Back To Black’, she drew inspiration from 1960’s girl-groups like The Shangri-Las and The Ronettes. Her thick winged eyeliner, pin-up tattoos, ballet pumps and backcombed beehive-hairdo stapled Amy as a fashion icon that made her silhouette distinguishable around the world. 🖤
Throughout Amy’s musical career, her fashion sense depended on what was influencing her at that very moment. In the ‘Frank’ era, she wore a lot of vintage clothing often accompanied with hair scarves and high heels. For ‘Back To Black’, she drew inspiration from 1960’s girl-groups like The Shangri-Las and The Ronettes. Her thick winged eyeliner, pin-up tattoos, ballet pumps and backcombed beehive-hairdo stapled Amy as a fashion icon that made her silhouette distinguishable around the world. 🖤
Throughout Amy’s musical career, her fashion sense depended on what was influencing her at that very moment. In the ‘Frank’ era, she wore a lot of vintage clothing often accompanied with hair scarves and high heels. For ‘Back To Black’, she drew inspiration from 1960’s girl-groups like The Shangri-Las and The Ronettes. Her thick winged eyeliner, pin-up tattoos, ballet pumps and backcombed beehive-hairdo stapled Amy as a fashion icon that made her silhouette distinguishable around the world. 🖤
Throughout Amy’s musical career, her fashion sense depended on what was influencing her at that very moment. In the ‘Frank’ era, she wore a lot of vintage clothing often accompanied with hair scarves and high heels. For ‘Back To Black’, she drew inspiration from 1960’s girl-groups like The Shangri-Las and The Ronettes. Her thick winged eyeliner, pin-up tattoos, ballet pumps and backcombed beehive-hairdo stapled Amy as a fashion icon that made her silhouette distinguishable around the world. 🖤
Throughout Amy’s musical career, her fashion sense depended on what was influencing her at that very moment. In the ‘Frank’ era, she wore a lot of vintage clothing often accompanied with hair scarves and high heels. For ‘Back To Black’, she drew inspiration from 1960’s girl-groups like The Shangri-Las and The Ronettes. Her thick winged eyeliner, pin-up tattoos, ballet pumps and backcombed beehive-hairdo stapled Amy as a fashion icon that made her silhouette distinguishable around the world. 🖤
Throughout Amy’s musical career, her fashion sense depended on what was influencing her at that very moment. In the ‘Frank’ era, she wore a lot of vintage clothing often accompanied with hair scarves and high heels. For ‘Back To Black’, she drew inspiration from 1960’s girl-groups like The Shangri-Las and The Ronettes. Her thick winged eyeliner, pin-up tattoos, ballet pumps and backcombed beehive-hairdo stapled Amy as a fashion icon that made her silhouette distinguishable around the world. 🖤
Throughout Amy’s musical career, her fashion sense depended on what was influencing her at that very moment. In the ‘Frank’ era, she wore a lot of vintage clothing often accompanied with hair scarves and high heels. For ‘Back To Black’, she drew inspiration from 1960’s girl-groups like The Shangri-Las and The Ronettes. Her thick winged eyeliner, pin-up tattoos, ballet pumps and backcombed beehive-hairdo stapled Amy as a fashion icon that made her silhouette distinguishable around the world. 🖤
Throughout Amy’s musical career, her fashion sense depended on what was influencing her at that very moment. In the ‘Frank’ era, she wore a lot of vintage clothing often accompanied with hair scarves and high heels. For ‘Back To Black’, she drew inspiration from 1960’s girl-groups like The Shangri-Las and The Ronettes. Her thick winged eyeliner, pin-up tattoos, ballet pumps and backcombed beehive-hairdo stapled Amy as a fashion icon that made her silhouette distinguishable around the world. 🖤
“He walks away, the sun goes down…” 🎶 On this day in 2007, Amy released ‘Tears Dry On Their Own’, her fourth (now 4x platinum) single from ‘Back To Black’. “’Tears Dry On Their Own’ is a track about the breakup with my ex. Most of these songs are about him. I shouldn’t have been in a relationship with him because he was already involved with someone else a bit too close to home. The song is about when we split up and saying to myself: ‘Yes, you’re sad but you’ll get over it.’ And I did.” – Amy 🖤 #BackToBlack
“When you walk in the bar and your dressed like a star, rockin’ your F-me pumps…” 👠 On this day 20 years-ago, Amy released ‘F**k Me Pumps’, her final single from ‘Frank’ alongside with ‘Help Yourself’. It has gone onto become one of Amy’s most beloved and humerous songs due to Amy’s witty and unmtached lyricism, as well as her London-centric punchlines. 🖤
“I told you I was trouble, you know that I’m no good…” 🎶 Amy performed ‘You Know I’m No Good’ live in Dingle, Ireland, back in 2006 with @daledavisbass and @banerjee.robin. You can now watch this performance in beautiful 4K on YouTube. 🖤 #BackToBlack
“Nobody stands in-between me and my man, it’s me and Mr. Jones…” 🎶 ‘Me and Mr. Jones’ rotates around Amy’s relationship with one of her favourite rappers Nas. Amy always spoke vocally about how much she loved to perform this song live – watch Amy with her two-piece band, @daledavisbass and Robin Banerjee at Ireland’s Other Voices Festival, 2006. You can now watch this performance in beautiful 4K on YouTube. 🖤 #BackToBlack
“It’s not just my pride, it’s just ‘till these tears have dried…” 🎶 Amy performing her hit single ‘Rehab’ with her two-peice band, @daledavisbass and Robin Banerjee at Ireland’s Annual Other Voices Festival, 2006. You can now watch this performance in beautiful 4K on YouTube. 🖤 #BackToBlack
Towards the end of 2006, Amy and her two-piece band, @daledavisbass and @banerjee.robin performed an intimate concert which took place in Dingle, a small town in Ireland. Watch Amy grace the stage here in this unforgettable performance of ‘Love Is A Losing Game’, now in beautiful 4K. 🖤 #BackToBlack
In Amy’s career, she released a total of 14 singles that included a beautiful variety of B-sides on the original single EP’s. Listen to all of Amy’s B-sides now – available on all streaming platforms. 🖤
“Stop making a fool outta’ me, why don’t you come on over Valerie?” 🎶 Amy’s soulful rendition of The Zutons’ ‘Valerie’ is a cover that many admire around the world. Watch her beautiful performance here from her concert at The Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London in May, 2007. 🖤 #BackToBlack
“What I write comes from what I listen to.” – Amy discussing her songs on her album ‘Back To Black’ shortly before it’s release in an interview with Tiscali, 2006. 🖤 #BackToBlack
From the age of 15, Amy got the first of many tattoos – starting with a Betty Boop design on her lower back. Amy’s tattoo style was very much inspired by 1950’s American pin-up girls. She combined this with her love for 1960’s fashion that created the iconic silhouette of Amy that we all know and love to this day… “I just like tattoos. I think it’s nice when you’re a musician and your whole opinion of yourself is based on the last thing you wrote. It’s nice to look in the mirror and not see the same face all the time, it’s nice to have something else to look at.” – Amy on her tattoos. 🖤
Amy with her band backstage in London, 2006. They toured together with Amy for her ‘Back To Black’ tour across the nation and she would often refer to them as “her ten husbands”. 🖤
