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Embracing her image as broken, focussing her image on her drug addiction - taking control of her representation.

Maintaining the northern, real, down to earth style in her music.

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'A life in 10 pictures' BBC Documentary (2021)

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'A life in 10 pictures' BBC Documentary (2021)

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A documentary where family and friends look at images and recount their memories of her at those points in her life. The documentary shows the real yet sad side of her, talking to individuals who were close to her and saw 'the real Amy' rather than just her persona. She is presented as an individual who was wronged by her circumstances, someone who tried to remain strong and despite her circumstances pulled through as an iconic and talented woman.

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Amy Winehouse's image is known around the world. But just a handful of iconic shots and private snaps reveal a new story: an extraordinary life through a unique lens.

Amy Winehouse's image is known around the world. She was the north London girl with a unique voice and look, who became hugely successful seemingly overnight, and whose private life the press became obsessed by. She died in 2011, aged just 27.

This documentary throws a unique lens onto an extraordinary life, focusing on ten defining photographs - from iconic shots to private snaps - with the stories behind them revealed by those who were there and those who knew her best, including her parents and close friends.

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BBC Two - A Life in Ten Pictures, Series 1, Amy Winehouse

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Ten pictures, from iconic shots to private snaps, reveal the life of Amy Winehouse.

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'Back to Black' (2024) Autobiographical movie

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'Back to Black' (2024) Autobiographical movie

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Back to Black (2024) ⭐ 6.3 | Biography, Drama, Music

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Jonathan Ross Talkshow Appearance (2004)

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Jonathan Ross Talkshow Appearance (2004)

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Amy Winehouse - Jonathan Ross 2004 HQ (I Heard Love Is Blind + Interview)

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Daily Mail Article (2004) 'New Brits on the Block'

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Daily Mail Article (2004) 'New Brits on the Block'

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Russel Brand on Amy Winehouse's Death (2011)

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Russel Brand on Amy Winehouse's Death (2011)

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Russell Brand understands the perils of addiction and today he is grieving a lost mate whose struggles with substance abuse appear to have proved fatal.

"I've known Amy Winehouse for years," the British comedian and actor wrote on his website in a lengthy tribute titled "To Amy," who was found dead in her London flat yesterday. She was only 27.

"When I first met her around Camden she was just some twit in a pink satin jacket shuffling round bars with mutual friends, most of whom were in cool Indie bands or peripheral Camden figures Withnail-ing their way through life on impotent charisma."

But he was soon to realize that Amy--or Winehouse, as he fondly called her--was the real deal.
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Hearing from a friend that she was a jazz singer, Brand assumed Amy to be some kind of "eccentric."

"I chatted to her anyway though, she was after all, a girl, and she was sweet and peculiar but most of all vulnerable," he recalled.

"I was myself at that time barely out of rehab," Brand noted, "and was thirstily seeking less complicated women so I barely reflected on the now glaringly obvious fact that Winehouse and I shared an affliction, the disease of addiction. All addicts, regardless of the substance or their social status share a consistent and obvious symptom; they're not quite present when you talk to them. They communicate to you through a barely discernible but un-ignorable veil."

Brand was pleased when she became "massively famous," he wrote, but, funny enough, he still hadn't seen her sing, so he didn't quite get what the so-called "jazz singer" had to offer just yet. It was only by chance, in fact, that he first saw her perform at the Roundhouse.
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"From her oddly dainty presence that voice, a voice that seemed not to come from her but from somewhere beyond even Billie and Ella, from the font of all greatness," he remembered. "A voice that was filled with such power and pain that it was at once entirely human yet laced with the divine. My ears, my mouth, my heart and mind all instantly opened. Winehouse. Winehouse? Winehouse! That twerp, all eyeliner and lager...the lips that I'd only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound. So now I knew. She wasn't just some hapless wannabe, yet another pissed up nit who was never gonna make it, nor was she even a ten-a-penny-chanteuse enjoying her fifteen minutes. She was a f--king genius."

But not long after her Grammy-winning rise came her epic fall.

"Amy increasingly became defined by her addiction," Brand wrote. "Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that youtube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent.

"This and her manner in our occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of her condition."

Brand noted that he was 27 when we sought treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction.

"Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death...Now Amy Winehouse is dead, like many others whose unnecessary deaths have been retrospectively romanticised, at 27 years old. Whether this tragedy was preventable or not is now irrelevant. It is not preventable today. We have lost a beautiful and talented woman to this disease. Not all addicts have Amy's incredible talent. Or Kurt's or Jimi's or Janis's, some people just get the affliction."

Brand began his tribute with an observation about the nature of addiction and ended with one, as well.

"Not all of us know someone with the incredible talent that Amy had," he concluded, "but we all know drunks and junkies and they all need help and the help is out there. All they have to do is pick up the phone and make the call. Or not. Either way, there will be a phone call."
WATCH: Celebs react to Amy's death

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Russell Brand Remembers Amy Winehouse: "She Was a F--king Genius"

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Russell Brand understands the perils of addiction and today he is grieving a lost mate whose struggles with substance abuse appear to have proved fatal.

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Daily Mail Article (2004) 'Behind the Music'

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Daily Mail Article (2004) 'Behind the Music'

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Daily Mail Article (2007) 'Skinny but stretched'

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Daily Mail Article (2007) 'Skinny but stretched'

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Daily Mail Article (2007) 'Amy's Bad Hair Day'

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Daily Mail Article (2007) 'Amy's Bad Hair Day'

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Amy Winehouse unseen & uncut interview 2006

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Amy Winehouse Foundation - Amy Winehouse Foundation

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Become a part of Amy's legacySupport our work and help to change the lives of young people.Learn moreResilience work with young people Helping young people to make informed choices about drugs and alcohol. Learn moreAmy's Place - Recovery housing for young women Giving women a safe place to recover from addiction.