1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: Hey, what's up, everybody. Jake Brennan here. I hope you've 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: been enjoying these stories about Amy Winehouse in season four 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: of Seven Club. While you're digging into the downfall of 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: one of the greatest modern divas, I wanted to share 5 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: a story about another queen of the pop realm, Taylor Swift. 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,240 Speaker 1: You can hear all about Taylor's disgraceful fans and Interstate 7 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: stockers in the season nine premiere of disgrace Land, my 8 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: other music and true crime podcast. You can hear that 9 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: episode on January eighth, wherever you listen to podcasts, or 10 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: you can hear it along with every single other disgrace 11 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: Land episode right now exclusively at Amazon dot Com. Slash 12 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: disgrace Land. The Seven Club is a production of I 13 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: Heart Radio and Double Elvis. Amy Winehouse died at the 14 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: age of and she lived a life that was as 15 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: tender as it was tortured. I can give you twenty 16 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: seven reasons why that statement is true. Nine would be 17 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: a cloud she was on when she finally got the 18 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,400 Speaker 1: opportunity to record a duet with her idol Tony Bennett. 19 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: Another eleven would be the number of tour dates she 20 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: would cancel after a disastrous gig in Belgrade went viral online. 21 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 1: Four more would be the hour in the morning give 22 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: her take when kicking alcohol cold turkey led to insomnia 23 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 1: and terrifying hallucinations. In three will be the number of 24 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: weeks she had left to live when she began to 25 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: wonder if the press was doing more than simply invading 26 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: her privacy. She suspected that they were invading her phone 27 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: all totally. On this our eighth episode of season four, 28 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:47,639 Speaker 1: Dark Histories of Addiction, Hallucinations, Invasions of Privacy in Amy 29 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: Winehouse Um Jake Brennan in This Is the Seven Corps 30 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:39,839 Speaker 1: Ye Tony Bennett could still feel his heart pounding through 31 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: his chest as he hung up the telephone. This was madness, 32 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: absolute madness. It was the end of the line, just 33 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: had to be. They were coming for him, they really were. 34 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 1: They leave him with nothing. After all, he had done, 35 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 1: the heights of fame, he'd been able to reach in 36 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: this is where it would all come crashing down. That 37 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: was obvious. The point was they were just going to 38 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: leave him there at the bottom to rot like yesterday's papers, 39 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: lonely at the top. Bullshit. Whoever said that only said 40 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: that because they've never experienced a pit of despair like 41 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: this in their life. Tony Bennett was tired of despair. 42 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: He needed to relax, but that was impossible. Just kept 43 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: thinking about the ship show that had been in the 44 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. He thought about his record contract with Columbia, 45 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: this former record contract. It dropped him like a hot 46 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: potato in the middle of a decade. So he went 47 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: the small business route, started his own label, Improv Records, 48 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: but no major label wanted to distribute it. So the 49 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: records kept on not selling, and by nine he hadn't 50 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: just left his heart in San Francisco, he left his 51 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: money there too. More accurately, his money was actually nowhere. 52 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: All he had was at one point to million dollar debt, 53 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: half of it owed to whoever came knocking on his 54 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: door looking to collect, and the other half owed to 55 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: the fetes. The I R s had become fed up 56 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: waiting for Tony to pay up, so they rang his 57 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: telephone that day to inform him that they were starting 58 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: the process to repossess his house. Added to a list 59 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: of things that were gone his money. His fame is 60 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: Cashe as one of the country's pre eminent jazz singers, 61 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 1: second to the chairman, of course, fucking everyone was. And 62 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: his mother was gone too, dead two years now. Back 63 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: in seven, on Thanksgiving of all days, Jesus though, Tony 64 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: Bennett needed to relax, and not through the assistance of 65 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: just pills, not just the uppies. The down He's the sleep, 66 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 1: he says, he called him. He needed something stronger, something 67 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 1: to make all the pain and all the frustration go away, 68 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: even if it was only for an afternoon. So he 69 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: reached for Tony's little helper, his to stuff for when 70 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: the going got real rough. Cocaine. He arranged it on 71 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: the coffee table and a big white line. One snort 72 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 1: and he forgot about the phone call from the I 73 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 1: R S. Another snort and he no longer worried about 74 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: the millions and crushing debt. One last snort, and everything 75 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: else on his mind just floated away. But his fifty 76 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: three year old heart was pounding even more now, so 77 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: fast and so hard. Maybe he'd indulged a little too much, 78 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 1: So he drew himself a hot bath and that would 79 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: bounce things out. The roller coaster rush of the coke 80 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 1: with the warm embrace of hot water. When the tub 81 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 1: was filled. Tony got undressed and stepped in. He submerged 82 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: his body into the water, reclined his head against the 83 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: lip at the back of the tub, and he watched 84 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: the steam rise from the top of the water. It 85 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: rose in the air and disappeared. It was hypnotic. He 86 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: closed his eyes and there was complete eat stillness, quiet, 87 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: And then he saw a clear yellow glow. It was 88 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 1: practically gold colored. He saw it with his eyes closed. 89 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: The glow was behind his eyes. It enveloped his head 90 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 1: and his brain, just like the water in the bathtub 91 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: was surrounding his body. Soon there was nothing but this warm, 92 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: glowing feeling deep down in Tony's body, and so he 93 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: was relaxed. The fist came down hard. They sunk into 94 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 1: his chest. The first blow made the golden yellow glow disappear. 95 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: The second blow brought the bathroom back to dull life. 96 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: The faucet at the tile, the water gone tepid. His 97 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,119 Speaker 1: ribs ached where the fists were hitting him repeatedly, over 98 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: and over. Bathwater splashed on the walls and got all 99 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,359 Speaker 1: over the floor, and Tony Bennett gasped like he hadn't 100 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: taken a breath in an eternity. His open mouth caught 101 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: some bath on her, and he started to choke. He 102 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:03,840 Speaker 1: spat the water back up as the fist came down 103 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: on him again. It's so hard that he thought the 104 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: fists were going to burst through his chest cavity. His 105 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: body scissored, and he shot up to a seated position. 106 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 1: He half expected to see one of the people he 107 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: owed money standing over him, but instead he saw his wife, Sandy. 108 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: She was soaking, wet, crying, breathing fast, like she just 109 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: for run a half marathon. Tony had never seen her 110 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: look or sound like that in his life, but everything 111 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:34,679 Speaker 1: about it told him that she had just saved his life. 112 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: It had been a while since Tony Bennett had thought 113 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: about his cocaine overdose in the bathtub back in nineteen 114 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: seventy nine. It was now two thousand eleven, and a 115 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: lot had happened in the decades since, most of it good. 116 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: He'd kicked pills and coke, got clean, and resigned to 117 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: Columbia Records in the mid eighties. His new records weren't 118 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: just selling, they were winning Grammys, and by the nineteen nineties, 119 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: he'd been unexpected be adopted by the MTV generation as 120 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: the definition of hip. To quote the New York Times, 121 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: Tony Bennett didn't just bridge the generation gap, he demolished it. 122 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: And now singers from younger generations wanted to sing with him. 123 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: It had become a rite of passage. You weren't considered 124 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: a legit performer until you performed a duet alongside the 125 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: man himself, Tony Bennett, and they all lined up to 126 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: sing with Tony on his new record, Duets Too. The 127 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: previous album featured superheroes of soft rock radio James Taylor, Elton, 128 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: John Barbara Streisan, John Legend, and fifteen other marquis names, 129 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: But for the sequel, they reached out to the younger generation. 130 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: Lady Gaga for the Lady as a Tramp, John Mayor 131 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: for One for My Baby and One More for the Road, 132 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: and Norah Jones for Speak Low, Josh Groban for this 133 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: is all I Ask? And Amy Winehouse for body and Soul. 134 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: Tony looked over at Amy as she sang her lines 135 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: into her own micro phone at Abbey Road Studios in London, 136 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: and they were so close that they could touch. Tony 137 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: didn't disturb her. He let her do her thing. What 138 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 1: a voice, he thought, so unique. One ft in the 139 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: past and the other foot well somewhere, I tell you 140 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: didn't know where. He just knew. He liked where the 141 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: voice took him. He could see she was nervous. Amy 142 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: kept blowing the take, not because she couldn't sing it, 143 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: and not because she was strung out, but because she 144 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: was nervous. This was Tony Bennett, the Tony Bennett. Sure, 145 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: sixteen other singers were on this record, but Amy Winehouse 146 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: was Tony Bennett's biggest fan. If Gaga wanted to call 147 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: bullshit on that, they take it outside. Tony reassured Amy 148 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: each time she got too nervous and flooded the line 149 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: or a phrase, it was all right. There was no rush. 150 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: It's just the two of them. He told her to 151 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: call him tone. He guided her through the session because 152 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 1: it wasn't just an opportunity for Amy wine to duet 153 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: with Tony Bennett, who was an opportunity for Amy Winehouse 154 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:07,959 Speaker 1: to prove herself as the legit, serious jazz vocalist she 155 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: had always seen herself as, from way back when she 156 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: was a teenager. Before Nick Shamanski ever grew the balls 157 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 1: to cold call her on the phone and asked to 158 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: be her manager, and then they got through the end 159 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: of the take with Tony's fatherly support. There are two voices, 160 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: no longer trading lines, but now caught up in an 161 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 1: effervescent swirl of sound, the old and the new together 162 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:36,559 Speaker 1: as one. Amy would be gone before the Duets two 163 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: album was released, even before the recording with all of 164 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: his collaborators had wrapped. However, Tony Bennett thought a lot 165 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: about his session with Amy Winehouse, about the support and 166 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: advice he had given her, that it allowed her to 167 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: overcome her fears and anxiety and deliver an epic take. 168 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: But mostly he thought about the things he hadn't said. 169 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: He knew that she, like everyone else, had her own 170 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: personal demons, that she struggled just like he had struggled once, 171 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: but he didn't bring it up. I didn't talk about it. 172 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 1: And maybe he should have a little friendly advice from 173 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: a friend who had been there, a friend who navigated 174 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: the peaks and valleys and the absolute bottom barrels of fame. 175 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: And he wondered if Amy Wineo has had anyone who 176 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: could be there at the ready, at the side of 177 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 1: the proverbial bathtub in her most desperate time of need. 178 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: They said it was the worst show ever, not just 179 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: in Belgrade, but in the whole damn country. Ever, they 180 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: had the video to prove it, and thanks to YouTube, 181 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 1: the entire world could bear witness. Here's a clip of 182 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 1: Amy Winehouse greeting the Serbian crowd with Hello, Assen's and 183 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: another clip of Amy Winehouse taking off her shoe for 184 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 1: some fucking reason and nearly falling over. Here's a clip 185 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,319 Speaker 1: of Amy Winehouse leaving the stage for ten whole minutes, 186 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: ten minutes and leaving the audience to speculate just what 187 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: it was that she was doing backstage. Did you see 188 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: that clip of Amy wine I was stumbling around the 189 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 1: stage and a drunken fog while her band smiles and 190 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: keeps playing. And what about that one of Amy Winehouse 191 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: sitting down on the monitor in front of the stage 192 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: back to the audience, before standing up again in front 193 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: of the mic and searching in vain for the words 194 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: to the song. Here's footage, in there's footage, and here's 195 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 1: some more footage, all different angles of the same pitiful scene, 196 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 1: the crowd booing Amy Winehouse off the stage. J two eleven. 197 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: It was supposed to be the kickoff to a twelve 198 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: day European tour. Instead, it was the first and last 199 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: date on a tour that never happened. Serbia's Defense minister 200 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: even weighed in on the whole affair. In the eyes 201 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: of the Republic, Amy Winehouse was declared a quote huge 202 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: shame and disappointment. Twitter blew up. Rapper Caswell tweeted Amy 203 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:24,320 Speaker 1: Winehouse is like my cool cousin that I used to 204 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 1: look up to, but now gets way too funked up 205 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:31,439 Speaker 1: at family functions and embarrasses me. Australian Idol star m 206 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 1: Russiano tweeted, this is just awful, a big awful train wreck. 207 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,319 Speaker 1: Fans were even less forgiving. I got robbed at a 208 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: concert by a crackhead desperate defeat her habit tweeted. One 209 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: such eye witness, Amy Winehouse, you only thirty pounds. One 210 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,959 Speaker 1: image shared over and over again from the Belgrade show 211 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: has Amy wrapping her arms around herself in a desperate hug, 212 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: her hair half died blonde and half died black, dangling 213 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,199 Speaker 1: in an unkempt mess in front of her crying face. 214 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 1: The photo, as they say, was worth a thousand words, 215 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: and the BBC reported that Amy had been on its 216 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 1: strict orders not to consume any alcohol following her latest 217 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: stint in rehab facility. The hotel she was staying at 218 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: had he even been instructed to remove all alcohol from 219 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: her rooms, But still Pumpens on social media as well 220 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 1: as the actual media couldn't help but speculate that she'd 221 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: once again been indulging in booze or worse, and furthermore, 222 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: that the inevitable was playing out right in front of them. 223 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: The UK tabloid The Mirror described amy stage presence as 224 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: having quote all the elegance of a rhino on ice. 225 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: The Daily Mail wondered about her quote moral responsibility to 226 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: the young girls who admire her want to copy her. 227 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: They dubbed her the toxic role model to end them all. 228 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: Alex Needham and The Guardian, however, had a different point 229 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: of view. In his eyes, the very things that made 230 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: Amy's gig insufferable to many were the same things that 231 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: other male artists were celebrated for. The boys were held 232 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: to a different standard. Bob Dylan had just performed a 233 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: show in London around the same time as Amy's Belgrade concert. 234 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: Arguably he fucked up just as many lines as Amy 235 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: had but that was just Bob being Bob. They all said, 236 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: no cause for concern. And what about Liam and Noel Gallagher? 237 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: Like Amy, they're drunken Shenanigans weren't limited to the stage, 238 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: but unlike Amy, it was accepted as part of their 239 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: rock and roll star narrative. Why then, was a drunken 240 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: Amy Winehouse a red flag for impending doom? Why couldn't 241 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: Amy live forever? Just like those hooligans from Manchester? And 242 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: then there was Robbie Williams, former Take That teenage heart 243 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: throb and current UK pop phenome, who, just days before 244 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: Amy Serbians Not Fou had split his trousers on stage 245 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: in Dublin and given thousands in the crowd a clear 246 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 1: look at little Robbie. The audience and the media left 247 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: it off. They laughed at all off when it was 248 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: the boys was the entertainment, but not with Amy. She 249 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: was no longer the entertainment. She wasn't entertaining anyone with 250 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: what she was doing on stage. It seemed, in fact, 251 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: it seemed that more and more the allure of following 252 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: the saga of Amy Winehouse was about everything but the music. 253 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: The public was watching a free fall into oblivion, and 254 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: that became its own kind of twisted entertainment. It was 255 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: a sick brand of entertainment, voyeuristic. When the papers reported 256 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: that Amy had canceled the rest of the tour, readers 257 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: ate it up. When the papers spread the rumors, whether 258 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: or not they were actually true that Amy had blacked 259 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 1: out three times in one week due to her unchecked 260 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: vodka consumption, they ate it up. No one talked about 261 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: her upcoming third album anymore, not even Amy. She was 262 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: no longer that person. She caught a glimpse of that 263 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: person back at Abbey Roads Studios with Tony Bennett. Tone 264 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: coaxed the person out of the shadows and into the light, 265 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: so that recording session was only a few months in 266 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 1: the rear view. Tonight, that girl was long gone. She 267 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 1: walked down the dark ends of the streets of Camden 268 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:13,919 Speaker 1: Town as a grotesque version of herself, almost a caricature, 269 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:18,360 Speaker 1: her beehive hair to askew, her balance always off, her 270 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 1: vocal phrasing lacking the control once had. Then the pubs 271 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:25,919 Speaker 1: were all closed. It didn't matter. She wasn't a fixture 272 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: there anymore. That was the older. Plus she didn't do 273 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: much drinking in front of large crowds. These days, she 274 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: saved the real benders for when she was alone. Sometimes 275 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,400 Speaker 1: she'd hold up in her place for days on end. 276 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 1: Her hands would shake, and so she'd pour a drink, 277 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,400 Speaker 1: and they'd shake some more, so she'd drink some more, 278 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 1: always chasing the problem with the other problem. It's wrong 279 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 1: that that was the tabloids and the angry crows that 280 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: was there talking. She didn't have a problem. She was 281 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: justified everyone else caswell, and where she all they had 282 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: the problem. They made her. She had been loved by them, 283 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:08,640 Speaker 1: followed by them, hounded by them every minute of her life, 284 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: lived for other people who were on her side until 285 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 1: they weren't, and then on no one stood up for 286 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: someone who was falling down. Amy took another sort of vodka. 287 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: It was flavorless, but it burned. At this point, drinking 288 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: was just mechanics. It was like she was doing it 289 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: because she thought everyone expected her to do it, to 290 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: self destruct at so that people would read the papers 291 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: the next day while nodding their heads knowingly and using 292 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 1: their short life as some kind of holier than now 293 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 1: cosmic lesson enough, if no one else was going to 294 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: stand up for her, then she would the tabloids, the 295 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 1: armchair quarterbacks on Twitter, the people booing in the crowd 296 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:49,639 Speaker 1: at Belgrade. They all thought they knew how this plot 297 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:51,919 Speaker 1: was going to play out, but they didn't know Ship 298 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: and what happened next. They never see it coming. We'll 299 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 1: be right back after this word we were. Something darted 300 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 1: out from the shadows. It's scurried by quickly, right there 301 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: in front of her feet. She jumped. She couldn't quite 302 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 1: make out what it was. It looked small, move fast. 303 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 1: She didn't own a dog, no cats, nothing living, so 304 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: the funk was running through her house. She turned in 305 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 1: the living room light and scanned the floor. A soft 306 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 1: scratching sound came from the other side of the couch. 307 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: She took a step and the scratching stopped. Nothing, just silence. 308 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 1: Another step to approach the edge of the couch, and 309 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,479 Speaker 1: the mouse jumped out from behind the couch's corner and 310 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 1: ran straight across her feet. She screamed. A tiny little thing, 311 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: white fur, pink guys whipped for a tail. She heard 312 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 1: the scratching again as she rounded the corner of the couch. 313 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: They all scattered into the light. White mice. There must 314 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: have been fifteen, maybe twenty of them, their miniature bodies 315 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: running this way and that towards the kitchen, into the bathroom, 316 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: between the tiny crack and the trim of the walls, 317 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: their tiny little nails clickitty clacking on the floors. There 318 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: was no rhyme or reason to it. They were everywhere, 319 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 1: and then just as quickly they were nowhere, gone to 320 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 1: their next hiding place. Mice here thirty Camden Square, Amy 321 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: Wine I was lived in one of the most exclusive 322 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: areas in all of London. Just look at her neighbors, surgeons, lawyers, 323 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: hedge funders, and Amy was no slouch either. She was 324 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: the only one in the neighborhood who had made it 325 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: onto the exclusive Britain's Rich List. After all, you would 326 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:40,119 Speaker 1: think that one of the unspoken perks of living at 327 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: an address like thirty Candom Square would be that you 328 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,959 Speaker 1: wouldn't have to worry about one mouse, let alone twenty 329 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: of them. Unbelievable. Amy wondered who she had a call 330 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: to deal with the problem. An exterminator. Most likely, she 331 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: knew a lot of people, but an exterminator wasn't one 332 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 1: of them. The joys of home ownership, she had to 333 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: find some one, and then she'd have to call not 334 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 1: right now. It was the middle of the night. Once again, 335 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 1: Amy Winehouse was having trouble sleeping. She was trying to 336 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 1: quit booze again straight cold turkey. He said it would 337 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 1: make her feel better, that everything would get better, and 338 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: maybe she'd even be able to focus on making music again, 339 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: rolling up to the studio and laying down tracks at 340 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 1: long last for LP number three. Her family and the 341 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: doctors told her, and they're ever so helpful way, that 342 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 1: due to the quantity of alcohol she was consuming on 343 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 1: a daily basis, it would be best for her to 344 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: slowly wean herself from drink every day, stepped down to 345 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 1: one less glass, and then one less and so on 346 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: until there were no more glasses. That was great in theory, 347 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: but in practice, fuck that. The math did not neither 348 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: to the psychology. One drink didn't eat less drinks. One 349 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: drink led to another. It was all or nothing for 350 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:01,119 Speaker 1: Amy Winehouse to drink or not to drink, So she 351 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 1: gave the ladder ago not to drink. Insomnia wasn't the 352 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 1: worst of it. Not being able to sleep while jones 353 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: being hard for a drink, Now that was pretty bad. 354 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:16,200 Speaker 1: The seizures, though they were even worse, and they came 355 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,200 Speaker 1: out of nowhere. They rattled her bones and shook her 356 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: brain and took every last ounce of her dignity. On 357 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: the outside, though it just looked like she had passed 358 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: out like that. A snap of the finger and she 359 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: dropped like a stone. Freaked her friends the funk out, 360 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 1: and understandably so, she told them not to worry about it. 361 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:39,360 Speaker 1: But between herself and the wall, she was extremely worried. 362 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: At least tonight, it was just not sleeping she had 363 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 1: to worry about. Well, that and the things she saw. 364 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: The white mice that appeared out of nowhere, ran wildly 365 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,640 Speaker 1: throughout the house and then disappeared. Each time it happened, 366 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: she panicked. She was reminded that she had to call 367 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,360 Speaker 1: an exterminator first thing in the morning, had to deal 368 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: with an issue immediately so that it didn't get worse. 369 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 1: But then, once the mice had miraculously disappeared in the 370 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 1: scuffling and scratching gave way to a black hole of silence, 371 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 1: she remembered they were all in her head. She turned 372 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 1: off the living room light and made her way into 373 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: the bedroom. She stood in front of a full length 374 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,439 Speaker 1: mirror and examined her reflection. She angled her body to 375 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: the left and the right and wondered what her next 376 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 1: tattoo should be. She already had so many pin up girls, 377 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: Betty boot, a horseshoe, a Canarian anchor, Daddy's girl, a 378 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:37,159 Speaker 1: lightning bowl in there right above her heart. Blake feeled 379 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,680 Speaker 1: her sibyl's name in a pocket. Even though they were 380 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: technically over, Amy felt a primal desire to be close 381 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: to Blake. It was both irrational and untenable. She knew 382 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,919 Speaker 1: it was fucking insane. She just couldn't help it, and 383 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 1: no one could help her. Every time she looked in 384 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,959 Speaker 1: a mirror and saw the tattoo above her heart, she 385 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,640 Speaker 1: was reminded again and the good times and the bad, 386 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,399 Speaker 1: what was and what could never be, and that ultimately 387 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: she was back here once again, just like the song 388 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:14,679 Speaker 1: had said, back to black life, imitating art or some 389 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 1: such ship. The mirror in her bedroom began to vibrate, 390 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: and she wondered for a moment if it was actually 391 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 1: herself that was vibrating, That maybe one of her seizures 392 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 1: was about to hit and make the whole room feel 393 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 1: like the earth was moving. Under her feet. She looked 394 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 1: at her hands, and they were still. The mirror was 395 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: vibrating even faster, now so fast that it no longer 396 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: looked like it was made of glass, more like glass 397 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,439 Speaker 1: that was rapidly melting, was liquid. It moved like a 398 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 1: vertical ocean. Something began to protrude from the glass. Amy 399 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: couldn't quite believe what was happening. What it was happening, 400 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: The shape of a hand, and then of another, the 401 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 1: shape of a head above them, No features, just the 402 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: shimmer of liquid glass. She stumb were backwards. Jesus fun. 403 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: She would take a hundred white mice right now over 404 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 1: the ship. She tried to make the indistinct figure into 405 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 1: something she knew, something that made her feel safe. She 406 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 1: tried to make it blak. Tried to imagine one of 407 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: his black tank tops on its torso, a trolly had 408 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 1: on top a mouth of leaning domino teeth. But she couldn't. 409 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,120 Speaker 1: The thing was faceless, nameless, a glossy blob that walked 410 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: straight at her. She jumped into bed, pulled the covers 411 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 1: up over her head, squeezed her eyes shot. Fuck. She 412 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 1: wanted to drink more than anything. She hated to admit it, 413 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: but there it was, and the room was silent now. 414 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,400 Speaker 1: She slowly opened her eyes and all she could see 415 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,120 Speaker 1: was the darkness under the covers. She buried her nose 416 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: into her pillow. She needed to do laundry, that was 417 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 1: for sure. She felt something tap on her shoulder, a 418 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: hand from out of the mirror, out of the darkness, 419 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: out of the past. She screamed and threw off the covers, 420 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 1: sprung from the bed. Her eyes were open wide, but 421 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: there was nothing there. No mirror, person, no mice, just 422 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: a regular mirror reflecting back the person that stood there 423 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 1: with a look of hysterical fear in her eyes, a 424 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: look that said, how long can this go on? On 425 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 1: the last day of June two, Amy Winehouse's official website 426 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: was hacked. Visitors to Amy winehouse dot com we're graded 427 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: with a flashing screen in large text with a profanity 428 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: laden manifesto. The named quote to take back the Internet 429 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: from the White Devil unquote. The screed called out Amy 430 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: by name, or rather Amy Crackhead of a wine House, 431 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: as she was referred to in the all caps text. 432 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: A group of hackers called Swagger Security a k a. 433 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 1: Swag Sex soon copped to the takeover. They shouted to 434 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: the virtual rooftops on Twitter, distanced themselves from hackers to anonymous, 435 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: and in a non sequitur PostScript, extolled the virtues of 436 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: rapper Little b whose new album just so happened to 437 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: have dropped the day before. Swagsak claimed other singers would 438 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: be targeted next, and they were justin. Bieber and Lady 439 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: Gaga both weathered similar attacks to their sites that summer. 440 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: The wine House camp was quick to take action. They 441 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: redirected the website's homepage to Amy's Facebook page as a 442 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 1: stop gap measure, but there was little reassurance from anyone 443 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 1: inside or outside Team wine House that this sort of 444 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 1: thing wouldn't happen again. In fact, it was only a 445 00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:56,439 Speaker 1: matter of time. The year two thousand eleven was a 446 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 1: boon for so called activists to invade the world's privacy. 447 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: PlayStation was hacked and millions of gamers found their credit 448 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:08,680 Speaker 1: information compromised. Customers shopping at the craft store chain Michaels 449 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,360 Speaker 1: had their credit card information stolen from registered pin pads. 450 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: Even defense contractor Lockheed Martin wasn't safe. Amy Winehouse hadn't 451 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: felt safe in a long time. Privacy. What was privacy? 452 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,120 Speaker 1: She abandoned any and all privacy years ago, but her safety. 453 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 1: She still clung to the memory of that and hopes 454 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: that it would someday return. But how could it when 455 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,360 Speaker 1: it seemed that every little thing, even the most closely 456 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: held secrets, were exposed by tabloids every day. It didn't 457 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 1: just blow up her privacy, it compromised her safety. How 458 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,959 Speaker 1: did the papers know what they knew? How do they 459 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: know where she was going to be on any giving 460 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: day and when? How do they know the details of 461 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 1: every one of her stays and rehab her medical information? 462 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 1: She knew why it was so obvious. Look at what 463 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,200 Speaker 1: was happening on every level of the mine world, from 464 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: craft store retailers to fucking missile manufacturers, and they were 465 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 1: inside her phone. They were journalists, bullshit journalists talked to people, 466 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 1: wrote down what they said, and then turned that into 467 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 1: a story. These people weren't journalists any longer. Fucking hackers, 468 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: that's what they were. Hackers by a different name, twenty 469 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,959 Speaker 1: one century pirates, bullies. She didn't know how they actually 470 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: got inside her phone. She was a singer, not a nerd, 471 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: but she knew it was true and she didn't have 472 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: to wait long for her suspicions to be validated. Just 473 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 1: a week after Amy Winehouse's website was hacked by swag Sack, 474 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 1: on July seven, two thousand eleven, the News of the 475 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: World announced that it was printing its final edition and 476 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: shutting down. The UK paper had been in print for 477 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty eight years, twenty seven of them 478 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 1: as a scandal touting tabloid under the ownership of conservative 479 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 1: media magnate Rupert Murdoch, and its sudden need to close 480 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: was rife with scandal. The News of the World was 481 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: closing a me deeply because its biggest advertisers who were 482 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: pulling their campaigns left and right, and while we're advertisers 483 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: abandoning one of the biggest muckrakers in the UK, all 484 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: because of the revelation that reporters for News of the 485 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 1: World having tely engaged in hacking phones in order to 486 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 1: get a scoop. The alleged victims of phone hackings included 487 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 1: families of murder victims and families of armed forces members 488 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 1: killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. This news came as no 489 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 1: shock to Amy Winehouse, no ship Sherlock the news was 490 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: in the hacking business news of the world. Journalists didn't 491 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: care what stood between them and a good story. Hell, 492 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: that didn't matter for nearly any journalists, still doesn't. It's 493 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 1: the two thousand twenties now, and it was the two 494 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,960 Speaker 1: thousand tents then, and the stakes for a better story, 495 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 1: a juicier story, were in our higher than ever. Amy 496 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 1: Winehouse wouldn't get the self satisfaction of learning the actual 497 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 1: details about how and when are phone was hacked by journalists, 498 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 1: but it was, and the rest of the world would 499 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,480 Speaker 1: find out just days after the rest of the world 500 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 1: was shocked by another piece of news that Amy Winehouse 501 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: was dead at the age of um Jake Brennan and 502 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: This is the Seven Club. The Club is hosted and 503 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 1: produced by me Jake Brennan for Double Elvis in partnership 504 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio. Zeth Lundie is the lead writer 505 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,040 Speaker 1: and co producer. 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