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Category Archives: Amy Winehouse

2021: A Year in Music

23 Thursday Dec 2021

Posted by marina72 in Amy Winehouse, Books, Film, Lana Del Rey, Madonna, Music, Non-Fiction, Television

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A Year in Music, Ace Records, Alabama 3, Amy Winehouse, Barrie-James, Beyond Black, Blue Banisters, Charlie Watts, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Choctaw Ridge, Documentaries, Instead of Dreaming, Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, Kate Solomon, Lana Del Rey, Lives of the Musicians, Lyndsy Spence, Madame X, Madonna, Maria Callas, Marissa Nadler, Naomi Parry, Nico, Rickie Lee Jones, Riverside, Rolling Stones, Sleep Walk, Tyler James, Yolanda

As the world’s big sleep entered its second year, Lana Del Rey turned away from social media and gave us not just one, but two albums: Chemtrails Over the Country Club and Blue Banisters. Continue reading →

‘I Told You I Was Trouble’: Amy Winehouse, 10 Years Gone

23 Friday Jul 2021

Posted by marina72 in Amy Winehouse, Anniversaries, Music

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Amy Winehouse, Amy Winehouse and Me, Art Decades, Asif Kapadia, Beyond Black, Brighton, Clare Pollard, Dionne Bromfield, Lana Del Rey, My Amy, Naomi Parry, Reclaiming Amy, Roger Sargent, Tyler James

This photo, taken by Roger Sargent, shows Amy Winehouse on Brighton Beach in July 2004, before that night’s show at Concorde 2. She was 20 years old, promoting her debut album, Frank, and wowing the locals. When she returned two years later, her ‘Rehab’ single was a runaway hit and her second album, Back to Black, would become one of the 21st century’s essential records. Continue reading →

2018: A Year in Music

17 Monday Dec 2018

Posted by marina72 in Amy Winehouse, Books, Film, Lana Del Rey, Madonna, Music, Non-Fiction

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A Year in Music, All Nerve, Amy Winehouse, Back to Amy, Back to Black, Beautiful Game, Blake Wood, Bobbie Gentry, Cat Power, Charles Moriarty, Chris Wade, Comeback Kid, David Bowie, Fado, Jack Antonoff, Lana Del Rey, Lissie, Madonna, Madonna in the Eighties, Mariners Apartment Complex, Matthew Rettenmund, Mazzy Star, Mercury Rev, MLVC60, My Wild West, Nico, Nico 1988, Norman Fucking Rockwell, Piano & A Microphone 1983, Portugal, Prince, Quentin Harrison, Record Redux: Madonna, Record Store Day, Sharon Van Etten, The Breeders, The Girl From Chickasaw County, Wanderer, Woman

She may have left the stage decades ago, but 2018 was a vintage year for die-hard fans of the mysterious Bobbie Gentry, with a rare vinyl release on Record Store Day followed in September by a career-spanning CD box-set, The Girl From Chickasaw County.  Continue reading →

2016: A Year In Non-Fiction

22 Thursday Dec 2016

Posted by marina72 in Amy Winehouse, Books, Brighton, Film, History, Lana Del Rey, Music, Non-Fiction, Politics, Witchcraft, Writing

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A Year in Books, Amy Winehouse, Another Day in the Death of America, BFI Stars, Blondie, British Witches of Sussex, Elena Ferrante, F.A. Mannan, Frances Farmer, Frantumaglia, Gary Younge, I'm Not In the Band, Jean Rhys, Journalism, Julie Christie, Lana Del Rey, Letters, Lyndsy Spence, Margaret Lockwood, Melanie Bell, Natalie Wood, Nathalie Leger, Peter Shelley, Rebecca Sullivan, Suite For Barbara Loden, Sylvia Patterson

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British journalist Gary Younge has a sharp eye for how political events impact on ordinary lives. While living in Chicago, he investigated the stories behind the blunt statistics of ten children and teenagers shot dead in a single day. Never intrusive, but quietly devastating, Another Day in the Death of America illuminates with rare power. Continue reading →

Art Decades 5: ‘Amy’, and More

02 Monday Nov 2015

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Amy Winehouse, Art Decades, Asif Kapadia, Documentaries

10848031_401443916698716_5793559625984160443_nMy review of Asif Kapadia’s documentary, Amy, is featured in Issue 5 of Art Decades, out now. Continue reading →

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