When Amy was asked what made her happy she answered: “I love pool and if I could invent an eighth day of the week, the morning would be spent playing the guitar and the night I’d be a pool shark.” (Unpublished interview 2004) 📸: Diane Patrice
When Amy was asked what made her happy she answered: “I love pool and if I could invent an eighth day of the week, the morning would be spent playing the guitar and the night I’d be a pool shark.” (Unpublished interview 2004) 📸: Diane Patrice
“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
“You go back to her, and I go back to black..” 🎶 ‘Back To Black’ is a timeless classic. Rolling Stone honoured Back to Black as the 98th ‘Best Songs of the 2000s’ and among the ‘500 Greatest Songs of All Time’ at 79th. 🖤
Amy at just 19, posing with her guitar in her beloved Camden Town, 2003. 🖤 📸: @alexismaryon
“Meet you downstairs in the bar and hurt, your rolled up sleeves and your skull T-shirt…” 🎶 Celebrating 18 years since Amy’s second single ‘You Know I’m No Good’ from her second album ‘Back To Black’, with a B-side to Amy’s timeless cover of The Specials’ ‘Monkey Man’. 🖤
A young Amy on a Fender Stratocaster playing ‘I Heard Love Is Blind’, in 2004. 🖤
“Huggin’ up the big monkey man!” 🎶 Amy’s iconic performance of ‘Monkey Man’ on Later… with Jools Holland, New Year’s Eve 2006. 🖤
Happy Birthday, Amy 🖤 Born in Southgate on this day in 1983, her voice and memory now forever immortal. Join us in remembering Amy on her 41st Birthday and leave your memory in Amy’s Memory Box, link in bio. 🩷
Happy Holidays 🖤
On this day in 2008 at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, Amy made an unforgettable debut, taking home five Grammys, including ‘Record of the Year’ and ‘Song of the Year’ for her hit “Rehab”, as well as ‘Best New Artist’. 🖤
Did you know that Amy’s hit ‘In My Bed’ was sampled from Nas’ ‘Made You Look’? Amy’s producer Salaam Remi had worked with Nas in 2002 and had kept the sample in the drum machine from his album ‘God’s Son’. As Amy was recording ‘In My Bed’ for her first album ‘Frank’, he looped the beats into the recording and it worked like a match made in heaven. “It was just crazy the way that worked and we kept it in because it felt so right.” – Amy 🖤
Happy New Year! Dancing into 2025 with Amy’s magical performance of ‘Rehab’ at the BRIT Awards in 2007. 🖤
Amy’s music beautifully captures the emotions of the heart. 💔❤️ This Valentine’s Day, we’re honouring love, heartbreak, and all the feelings in between.
Amy’s stunning rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’, singing to a friend at the tender age of just 14. 🖤
Happy New Year’s Eve – we’re going into 2025 with Amy’s beautiful performance of ‘Teach Me Tonight’ on Later… with Jools Holland, which was taken 20 years-ago today on this New Year’s Eve in 2004. 🖤
“Frank’s in there and I don’t care…” 🎶 21 years-ago this day in 2004, Amy’s second single ‘Take The Box’ from her debut album ‘Frank’, with a B-side of Amy’s entrancing cover of Thelonious Monk’s jazz standard ‘Round Midnight’. 🖤
Amy’s perfect idea of Christmas 🖤
“Don’t go to strangers, my darling, come to me…” 🎶 Amy’s stunning duet with Paul Weller on Later… with Jools Holland of ‘Don’t Go To Strangers’, on New Year’s Eve in 2006. 🖤
“I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus, underneath the missletoe last night…” 🎶 Amy’s magical rendition of ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus’… 🖤
On this day 20 years-ago, Amy attended the 2004 Mercury Prize Awards. She was nominated for ‘Album of the Year’ for her debut album ‘Frank’ and brought her magic to the stage with her enchanting performance of ‘Take The Box’… “I’m much more comfortable singing than talking. I come through when I’m singing more than when I’m talking. I could talk for three hours and not say the same things in three seconds that I could on a track. So, I’m real privelged that they asked me to perform because I know it’s not every nominee gets to perform. I’m a really lucky girl.” – Amy on the red carpet that same evening. 🖤
“I’m going to Minneapolis, see you later.. I hope I can do it, though – I’ll drop everything to do that.” – Amy 🖤 This was the moment Amy found out Prince wanted to perform with her, which ended up taking place at an aftershow gig during his iconic 21-day residency at London’s O2 Arena.
“I wouldn’t write anything unless it was directly personal to me, just because I wouldn’t be able to tell the story right. Even though some of it is personal in a sad way, I would never let it just be that. I put humour in, I’ll always put a punchline in the song always. I just try and be different with my lyrics.” – Amy 🖤
“I’ve got my own style and I write my own songs. If someone has so much of something already there’s very little you can add.” – Amy 🖤
