1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: The twenty seven Club is a production of I Heart 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis. Amy Winehouse died at the age 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: of and she lived a life unlike any other. I 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 1: can give you twenty seven reasons why that statement is true. 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: Two would be the run time in minutes of eleaked 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: video with footage so damning it led to a stint 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: in the very place Amy swore she would never go. 8 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: Five more would be the number of Grammy Awards she 9 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: won while her beloved Holly Arms pub in Northwest London's 10 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: Camden Town burned. Another seven would be the number of 11 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: hours she spent out on the town in April two eight, 12 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: a night made infamous by the violent attack she committed 13 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: on two unsuspecting men. Ten more would be the number 14 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: in millions of pounds that she was estimated to be 15 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: worth in two thousand and eight when she made Britain's 16 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: Rich list for the first time, and will be the 17 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: number of years she had left to live when her 18 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: own father called for her to be committed to a 19 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 1: mental institution. All totally on this our premier episode of 20 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: season four Leaked videos, London's burning, violent attacks and Amy 21 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: Winehouse um Jake Brennan in this is the seven clock. 22 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 1: M h Amy Winehouse was in rehab, the very place 23 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: she swore she'd never go, the place she sang about 24 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: in that song, the song, the song that put her 25 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: on the map, leveled her up. She was that song 26 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: and that song was her defined who she was on stage, 27 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: on record, in the press, behind closed doors. There was 28 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: no artistic license involved in that one. It was a 29 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: raw declaration of a personal constitution, and that declaration was this. 30 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: She was defiant, she was brazen, She was funny as fuck. 31 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 1: Did she suffer fools? Did she take orders from anyone? 32 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: Did she want to go to rehab? No, no, and no. 33 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 1: But look at her now fucking rehab, even though she'd 34 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: been forced to go. She felt like she had betrayed 35 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: her own image and therefore betrayed the people who helped 36 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: that song go to number seven in the UK at 37 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: number nine in the US. What a hypocrite. But as 38 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: she looked around the walls of Capio Nightingale, a private 39 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: drug addiction clinic on Harley Street in London, a hypocrite 40 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: wasn't the only thing she was feeling like. She felt 41 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: like a member of the undead. The taste of the 42 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: water was bland, and the smell of the air was odorless. 43 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: Blues were no longer blue, at least not as blue 44 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: as the blue she thought she'd known. Reds were washed 45 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: out into a dull pink. She missed the stomach churning 46 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: feeling of being in love and out of love, and 47 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: back and love again. She wasn't happy, but she wasn't sad. 48 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: If she was at her lowest, she couldn't even feel it. 49 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: This must be what being undead feels like. She feared 50 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: she would never feel a thrill again, the thrill of 51 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: a high. The highs that Amy Winehouse was used to 52 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: feeling where real high. Unfortunately, those real highs were what 53 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: landed her in this zombie prison in the first place. 54 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: It was January two eight, What a way to spend 55 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: the new year. The Sun that London rag Amy blamed them. 56 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: They hosted a video on their website just days before, 57 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: the one that by now had bounced from one corner 58 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 1: of the Internet to another around the world, and a 59 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,799 Speaker 1: click the thing had gone viral. It was viewed by millions. 60 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: The Sun claimed that the clip had been edited down 61 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: from nineteen minutes to two minutes, but two minutes was 62 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: plenty of time to do serious damage. In the clip, 63 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: Amy walks around her London home in a dark tank top. 64 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: She admits to taking six value. She goes to her 65 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: bedroom where she lights a glass pipe and takes a hit, 66 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: and then another. And the Sun said it was crack cocaine. 67 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: A few hits and the privacy of her own home 68 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: was the big deal. If only they knew the lengths 69 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: to which she would go to chase that feeling, the 70 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: depths to which she would go to forget that she 71 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: was famous. The public said that whoever had sent the 72 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: video to the Sun was doing Amy a favor. Her 73 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: own mother even told the Daily Mail how happy she 74 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: was that her daughter was getting help. Her parents told 75 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: the press everything. Some days Amy felt like she was 76 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: the press. She was all that London in the UK 77 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: talked about. America was starting to talk to, considering that 78 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: she had been now nominated for six Grammy Awards, Record 79 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 1: of the Year and Song of the Year, for Rehab, 80 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 1: Album of the Year, for Back to Black, Best New Artist, 81 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: Best Female Vocal Pop Performance, and Best Vocal Album. The 82 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: only other artist with more nominations was Kanye West, and 83 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 1: Amy Winehouse was only twenty four years old, but she 84 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: had the voice of someone well beyond her years, someone wiser. 85 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: How could a voice like that come from someone like her? 86 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 1: A skinny Jewish girl from North London, justified ft three 87 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: six ft three if you included the beehive hair, do 88 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 1: you that balanced precariously above her dramatic eyeshadow and lashes. 89 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: And she sounded like she was out of time. Like 90 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: her voice, it comes straight out of the past to 91 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 1: inhabit a very contradictory twenty one century musical landscape, a 92 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: voice snatched from years ago, decades, even a completely different 93 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: period in time. She was a Sara Van and a 94 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 1: sea of Katy Perry's House wanted to believe it old souls, 95 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: but it wasn't that exactly. The voice was the old soul. 96 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 1: The voice was the thing, and whether or not Amy 97 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: Winehouse wanted to believe it, that voice was in serious trouble, 98 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: as was Amy. Her drug use had gotten completely out 99 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,359 Speaker 1: of control. It wasn't just crack, it was coke, it 100 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: was heroin, It was whatever the hell she could get 101 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: her hands on, and whatever she got her hands on, 102 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: she couldn't get enough of. Lucien Grange, head of Universal UK, 103 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: the media company that owned Amy's record label, Island Records, 104 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: knew that Amy's addiction had to be conquered. It wasn't 105 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: just her career on the line, it was her life, 106 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: which is why Amy's trip to rehab also coincided with 107 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 1: a contract from Lucien Grange for her to sign. The 108 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: contract stated that Amy would not be able to perform 109 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: at the Grammy Awards unless she was clean, drug free. 110 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: She'd even have to pass a piss test. Then, much 111 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: to the surprise and elation of people like Lucien Grange 112 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: and her mother and her fans, Amy did it. She 113 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: did her time in rehab and got herself clean and 114 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: prepared to appear at the two thousand eight Grammy Awards 115 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: on Sunday, February ten. But are well known and heavily 116 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: reported upon reputation preceded her. Her application for visa was 117 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: rejected by the United States, so she made her appearance 118 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: via satellite where she performed live in front of an audience, 119 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: and she did looked like the strung out junkie taking 120 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: hits from a crack pipe. On the Sun's website. She 121 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: looked good, she sounded even better. She kept pace with 122 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: her tent piece band. Her voice hit all the lows 123 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: and all the highs, and when the night was over, 124 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: she had taken home five of the six awards that 125 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: she was nominated four. But Amy still felt like a 126 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: bit of a hypocrite, singing her battle cry hit single 127 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: about the one place she wouldn't go after she'd just 128 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: well gone there, and she couldn't shake the feeling that 129 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: had taken her over while she was in rehab, that 130 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 1: she was blander than she had been before, that the 131 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 1: world was blander and the snare drum didn't snap the 132 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: way she remembered, and the horns didn't send shivers down 133 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: her spine. It was supposed to be an evening of renewal, 134 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: of second chances, of the beautiful, positive things that a 135 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: person could manifest if they only put their mind to it. 136 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 1: Amy's friends thought so. One of them said to her, 137 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 1: I can't believe this is happening. I'm so proud of you. 138 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 1: Amy looked back at her friend through eyes that felt 139 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 1: like un dead shells of their former cells. She responded 140 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:09,959 Speaker 1: with the only thing that was presently on her mind, 141 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 1: this is so boring. Without drugs, you could get a 142 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: clear view of the fire from the bridge over Region's canal. 143 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: Flame shot thirty ft into the air. Smoke filled the 144 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:54,199 Speaker 1: nighttime sky. London's Fire Brigade battled the blade, shooting water 145 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: from their aerial ladders. From a distance, it looked like 146 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: a losing game. Cam Mean Town was burning and history 147 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: was burning with it. Camden Town in London was where 148 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 1: the Clash played for the first time back in ninety six. 149 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: In fact, the iconic photo of the band on the 150 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: cover of their self titled debut was taken in the 151 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: alleyway just outside their Camden Town rehearsal studio. Camden Town 152 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 1: was also the location of the Electric Ballroom, the venue 153 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,719 Speaker 1: where said Vicious gave his final UK performance fronting a 154 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: band called Vicious. White Kids to were a struggling new 155 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: wave ska band called Madness, began to attract the following 156 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: in a pub called the Dublin Castle. According to the legend, 157 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: Camden Town was also the spot where the famous rivalry 158 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: between Oasis and Blur began at a small two roomed 159 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: Irish bar called the Good Mixer. If you believe the legend, 160 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: Noeld Gallagher took one look at Graham Coxon and said, 161 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: nice music. Ship clothes. It was all downhill from there obviously, 162 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: or uphill, depending on your point of view, And in 163 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight Camden remained a hot spot in 164 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: London's cultural geography, even if it's punk. The bohemian roots 165 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: had in recent years been eclipsed by strange corporate bedfellows 166 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: in big money. There was such a thing as too hot, 167 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 1: and on this particular day, as the evening of February 168 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: nine quickly became the early morning of February tenth, London's 169 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: hip Mecca neighborhood was just that, literally so hot it 170 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: was on fire. Then the fire of the tour through 171 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: Camden Market threatened to reduce vintage clothing stores, record shops 172 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: and pubs to ashes. Thousands were evacuated from their homes, 173 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 1: flats and bars. People ran down the streets screaming to 174 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: the sounds of gas canisters exploding from the heat. Entire 175 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: buildings collapsed and for several hours, the Holly Arms was 176 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: engulfed in flames. The Holly Arms on Castle Haven Road 177 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: was London's unofficial rock and roll hangout, and not just 178 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: for a usual suspects like Liam Gallagher and Kate Moss 179 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: and the Libertines, Pete Daugherty. The Holly Arms was the 180 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: watering hole of choice for members of the Arctic Monkeys 181 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: and the Kaiser Chiefs. Johnny Barrel of Razorlike brought his 182 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: girlfriend Kirsten Dunce there, and Tim Burgess of the Charlottean's 183 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: once told a story about walking into the pub one 184 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: day only to be greeted by bartender du jour Amy Winehouse, 185 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,199 Speaker 1: pouring pints behind the bar for anyone who bellied up. 186 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: When she wasn't pouring the pints, she was calling for 187 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 1: another round for herself, like one of her favorites made 188 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: on the spot a ricks to see three parts vodka, 189 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 1: one part banana licur, one part Southern comfort in one 190 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: part Bailey's. And the pub soundtrack was just as good 191 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 1: as its tap list. The Angels, the Sherells, the Dixie Cups, 192 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: the Shangra Laws, the raw Netts. If you were searching 193 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 1: for inspiration in the glass or an old fort, the 194 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: Holly Arms was the place to be. All it took 195 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: was a coin in the jukebox selection and he'd step 196 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: back at time. And no one knew that better than 197 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 1: Emy Winehouse. Holly Arms wasn't just her local. It was 198 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: a home away from home, even if home was just 199 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: a drunken stumble around the corner to Prows Place, And 200 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: it didn't matter that it was the year two eight 201 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,079 Speaker 1: and Nimy Winehouse was now v Amy Winehouse, a fixture 202 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: in the tabloids. Her troubles with drugs, in her tumultuous 203 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: marriage to Blakefield or civil just as much a part 204 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: of the discussion as her music. Her sophomore album, Back 205 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 1: to Black, had been released over a year prior, and 206 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: it was still a mainstay on both the US and 207 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: the UK charts. Honestly, though, if she could trade it all, 208 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,719 Speaker 1: she would. If she could just hang at the Hall 209 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:47,959 Speaker 1: the Arms every night, sing on a little stage in 210 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 1: the corner of a Camden Town pub when she felt 211 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: like listen to Ronnie Specter and Sara Van all night, 212 00:13:53,920 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: then she'd be happy, and the Grammy ghost to Amy 213 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: wine House. But there she was, on another stage at 214 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 1: Riverside Studios in the Hammersmith district of West London, in 215 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 1: front of a dinner theater audience, accepting her Grammy Awards 216 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: via satellite. Had she just seen and heard what she 217 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: thought she'd just seen and heard Tony Bennett. Tony fucking 218 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: Bennett said her name, live from Hollywood. She couldn't believe it. 219 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: Her jaw was still on the floor. She was struck dumb. 220 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: She couldn't believe that Tony Bennett actually knew who she was, 221 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: and she also couldn't believe that she had somehow stumbled 222 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: into this, achieved this fame, ubiquitous fame. She first gained 223 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: fame for her voice, which was both vocative of a 224 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: bygone era and uniquely futuristic. But now her talent was 225 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: secondary to the fame. No amount of gold trophies was 226 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: going to change that. She just had to walk down 227 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: Campden High Street in the tank top and cut off shorts, 228 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: and it was news. The real news that day. The 229 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 1: thing everyone should be talking about, in her opinion, was 230 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: not the Grammy Awards. It was the fact that Camden 231 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: Market was on fire. The real news was the cosmic 232 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: factory that had set flames to the very place she 233 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: enjoyed getting her rocks off and acting like a normal 234 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: person on the regular. Right as she came off her 235 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: first st into rehab, and on the same day that 236 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: she won an armful of Grammys, it was like the 237 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: universe was shutting a door behind her like she couldn't 238 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: go back. She had to commit to being this new person. 239 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: It was bullshit, So she fought back. She fought back 240 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: against the cosmic foccory, the universe, anyone who dared tell 241 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: her what she could and couldn't do. Camden Town ain't 242 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 1: burning down, she said defiantly into the microphone, her mother 243 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: at her side, as both the live audience and the 244 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: satellite audiences cheered on the Grammy audience in Hollywood had 245 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: no idea that Camden Market was currently engulfed in flames, 246 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: nor did they know that Amy's old haunt, Holly Arms, 247 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: wouldn't make it through the night. And there was a 248 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: lot that public didn't know about Amy Winehouse, even though 249 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: they were fed a steady diet of her life through 250 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: the daily news and therefore thought they knew her quite well. 251 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 1: Just days later, at the two thousand and eight brit 252 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 1: Awards on February fourteen, Amy took the stage alongside Mark 253 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 1: ronson the New York via London DJ and producer who's 254 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: collaboration with Amy on Back to Black put them both 255 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: on the map. Amy dressed in a tartan corset and 256 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 1: leopard print miniskirt. With her long black hair piled high, 257 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: looked like one of the pin up girl's tattooed on 258 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: her arms. Ronson, in a sharp blue suit, played a 259 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: double neck Gibson as Amy sang Valerie, the Zouton song 260 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: that the duo had covered on Ronson's two thousand seven 261 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: LP version. Live audience and the TV audience all thought 262 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: they knew what they were watching, a victory lap for 263 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: Amy's post rehab comeback that had begun days earlier with 264 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: her triumphant Grammy's performance. Ensure Amy was a little wobbly 265 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: on stage, Ronson wheelded the double neck like a protective barrier. 266 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: Should Amy stumble and pitch forward? But that was the character, 267 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: right That was Amy Winehouse the singer, even if it 268 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:18,159 Speaker 1: was no longer Amy Winehouse the person. What audiences couldn't see, however, 269 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 1: was what was happening backstage at the brit Awards during 270 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: final rehearsals, Amy was falling over. She'd knocked back a 271 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:30,640 Speaker 1: few stiff drinks. She was out of her head. Show 272 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: producers contemplated cutting her from the show entirely. A staffer 273 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: poked his head in Paul McCartney's dressing room and asked 274 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,439 Speaker 1: if the ex Beatle could extend the medley he had 275 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 1: planned to perform in the event that Amy had to 276 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: sit this one out. It didn't take long for word 277 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: of an unreformed and unrepentant Amy Winehouse to make it 278 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: to the papers. It never took long. They couldn't wait 279 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 1: to give their readers a glimpse into the seed underbelly 280 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: of everyone's favorite down and out pop star, the one 281 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:02,159 Speaker 1: they all dubbed wineh and Ink. It was the mirror 282 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: that had the scoop on this particular story, fed directly 283 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 1: from an anonymous source who claimed they had witnessed it 284 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 1: all behind the scenes at the brid Awards. The scoop 285 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,199 Speaker 1: laid bare that there weren't two Amy Winehouses. The public 286 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: Amy and the private Amy were one and the same, 287 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 1: and she'd unintentionally fooled the public with this whole rehab 288 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: nonsense because the truth was that she wasn't getting better. 289 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: The truth was that she was about to find herself 290 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:35,160 Speaker 1: in very grave danger. We'll be right back after this 291 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: word word word. The hand came fast and hard, so 292 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,919 Speaker 1: fast that Mustafa al Mumi couldn't tell if it was 293 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 1: a palm or a fist, to slap or a punch. 294 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:56,159 Speaker 1: One thing was for certain. It was a sucker shot 295 00:18:56,320 --> 00:19:00,200 Speaker 1: all the way. Mustafa reeled back. He dropped his old 296 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: que to the floor. His eye throbbed with pain and 297 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: his lip burned. He could already feel the swelling start. 298 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: The collective air went out of the room. A Good Mixer, 299 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,199 Speaker 1: like many pubs in Camden Town, saw a lot of 300 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,959 Speaker 1: ship go down on a nightly basis, but this was 301 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: next level. It wasn't that Mustafa had been hit, it 302 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,399 Speaker 1: was who had hit him. He held the eye that 303 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: had been struck and looked out through his good eye. 304 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: Amy Winehouse wobbled in place in front of him, where 305 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: they stood next to a pool table. Her giant black 306 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: buffont looked like it was about the capsize. She wore 307 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 1: a black fishnet shirt revealed a cherry print bra denhim 308 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: capri pants. She looked about as bad as Mustafa felt, 309 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: which was saying something, seeing as though she wasn't the 310 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,439 Speaker 1: one who had just been clocked in the face the 311 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: minutes earlier. She had stumbled into the Good Mixer like 312 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: she owned the place. Was it the fact that she 313 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,160 Speaker 1: was a worldwide celebrity that made her act that way, 314 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: or was that simply the person she was Sometimes it 315 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 1: was hard to tell. Hell, she probably didn't even know. 316 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: It could have also been whatever the hell she was 317 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: on that night, which was definitely something Mustafa on the 318 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: other patrons the pub knew at the moment she stirred 319 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 1: through the door, wearing that walk of shame look that 320 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 1: she couldn't help but wear when she was wasted. Amy's 321 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 1: eyes rolled around in her head. She slurred her Cockney 322 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: adjacent North London accent, and she could have been on 323 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 1: anything and wouldn't surprise a soul in there we've coke 324 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:31,119 Speaker 1: heroin cracks. She didn't discriminate. She made one thing clear. 325 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 1: She wanted to play pool, and she wasn't gonna wait 326 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,679 Speaker 1: for next. She was playing now, but Mustafa and his 327 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: pals were in the middle of a game and she 328 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: just have to wait. Boy, fus you would That's when 329 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:45,879 Speaker 1: her hand leapt up and caught Mustafa in the face. 330 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 1: The pint glass shattered on the floor. Someone pulled Amy 331 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: back as she screamed out loud that she was going 332 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: to fucking play fucking pool right fucking now, and there 333 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,479 Speaker 1: was nothing any fucking one was gonna fucking do about it. 334 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 1: Mustafa felt the blood rushing from his face. His knows his, 335 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: I his she he didn't know where, but Jesus Christ. 336 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: It stunned like a mother. He stood his ground while 337 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: he was hauled from the pool table to the front door. 338 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,199 Speaker 1: Then later he would say, I feel so angry. She 339 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: smashed my face hard, but I could not hit back. 340 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 1: She's a woman outside the paparazzi bulbs flashed. They were 341 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 1: all there, the vultures, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, 342 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: the Sun Evening Standard, news of the world. Freelance photogs 343 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 1: just taking photos just to take photos, just because someone 344 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: would buy them. Just look at her, stumbling around from 345 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: one side of the street to the other, a cigarette 346 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 1: just dangling from her lips, her eyes bobbing open and closed. 347 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,439 Speaker 1: It looked like she didn't even know who she was 348 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: or who she was, And the photogs circled her like 349 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: lions around a gazelle. They remember to save enough film 350 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 1: on the chance that she was going to go down 351 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: right there on the pavement, lights out d o A 352 00:21:55,320 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: and Camden Town. Now those pictures would sell. But she 353 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: didn't go down the paparazzi had to settle for photos 354 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 1: of her holding a giant spliff in her hand while 355 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,400 Speaker 1: she bathed in the yellow and green lights of London's 356 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: after hours nightlife, holding hands with some bloke who played 357 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: in Pete Thherty's non Libertines band Baby Shambles. The day 358 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: hadn't been any more productive than the night for Amy Winehouse. 359 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: She was working on a theme song for the new 360 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: James Bond movie Quantum of Solace, the second to feature 361 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,959 Speaker 1: Daniel Craig as Double O seven. Back in the producer's 362 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,640 Speaker 1: chair was Mark Ronson, the Transatlantic music man who had 363 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: been her main man on Back to Black. She was 364 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,919 Speaker 1: hoping to parlay that girl group garage sound into cinematic gold, 365 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: something dramatic, heartbreaking, worldly and with a killer backbeat. But 366 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 1: the song wasn't coming together. What the funk was a 367 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 1: quantum anyway? And how could you write a song about it? 368 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: The Bond theme was indicative of a larger problem. Back 369 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 1: to Black had been out for a year and a half. 370 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,080 Speaker 1: It had been a wild year and a half. In 371 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: addition to winning Grammys and critical accolades, Back to Black 372 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: had recently been certified double platinum. It was still on 373 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 1: the charts, but Amy couldn't wrap her head around what 374 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: she was going to do next. The Enemy and the 375 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: Inside Dirt allegedly that reported that her new album would 376 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 1: be quote very dark, with many songs quote themed around 377 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,360 Speaker 1: the subject of death, and they were all wrong. What 378 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 1: did the enemy know about it? Anyway? They all said 379 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: that Back to Black had been a dark record, to 380 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: one inspired by on again, off again drama with her husband, 381 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 1: Blake Field or civil Did they even listen to it? 382 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,200 Speaker 1: That record wasn't dark. It was funny, It was snarky. 383 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: It was smart pop music, the kind they used to 384 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: make but didn't make anymore. It was Amy Winehouse, is 385 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,959 Speaker 1: what it was. And now Amy Winehouse didn't even know 386 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,479 Speaker 1: who she was supposed to be. She may or may 387 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 1: not have known where she was in the map. On 388 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: that evening in April of two thousand and eight, when 389 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: she walked away from Clocky Mustaphael Mumai and the Kisser 390 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 1: and shambled on over to Bartok, another Camden pub near 391 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 1: her home. It was two in the morning. She thought 392 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: about the problems she was having in the studio and 393 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: with writing the new record. She thought about the paparazzi 394 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: waiting for her outside. They'd be all over her as 395 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: soon as she stepped through that front door. She was frustrated, 396 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: fucked up. She threw her glass onto the floor and 397 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 1: then another. Her head snapped back and forth like a 398 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,880 Speaker 1: rag doll. She grabbed onto a table and flipped it over. 399 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 1: People sipping Stella's and black and tants jumped to avoid 400 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: half empty pipes spilling onto their growing out clothes. Amy screamed, 401 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,679 Speaker 1: and no one in particular. I am a legend, She 402 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: pointed aimlessly around the room. Get these people out. But 403 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 1: soon Amy herself was back on the street. She was 404 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:51,360 Speaker 1: obviously intoxicated, high, unwell. Everyone could see it. The photogs 405 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 1: were doing their best to capture it in all its ugly, 406 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 1: pitiful glory. One't even got a shot of Amy walking 407 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: into a lamp post. A good Samaritan decide to help 408 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 1: out and tried to help Amy a cab. In her 409 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:07,120 Speaker 1: disoriented state, Amy mistook the kind offer for some sort 410 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: of predatory advance, like the guy was trying to grab 411 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,159 Speaker 1: a piece of her body because she was vulnerable and 412 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 1: famous and he felt entitled. Before the cab could even 413 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,639 Speaker 1: pull up to the sidewalk. Amy had refused the offer, 414 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,679 Speaker 1: and not just with a polite no thank you. She 415 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 1: put her face to the strangers, dramatically, leaned back, and 416 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: then headbutted him with a force not unlike the one 417 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,680 Speaker 1: she had employed to hit that Mustapha dude in the 418 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: good mixer just a few hours earlier. The paparazzi was 419 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: still there around four am when she had a break 420 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 1: into her own home, and they were behind her to 421 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: either side, camera snapped and flashed. Amy found the door 422 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: at the twenty five prows place locked. She dug around 423 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: in the pockets of her jeans for her keys. Nothing fuck, 424 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 1: So she had a few friends helped her pry open 425 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: the garage door from the bottom, and they painstakingly lifted 426 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 1: the door out from the pavement where one of them 427 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: had squeezed his way inside, to then go and unlock 428 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 1: the door, and the cameras continued to click and flash 429 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 1: even as Amy Winehouse made her way inside her home. 430 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,680 Speaker 1: The door closed behind her, and the photogs stood at attention. 431 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,639 Speaker 1: They waited because they knew this wasn't the end. It 432 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: wasn't a question of if there would be more. It 433 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 1: was a question of when On April, the Sunday Times 434 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 1: published the annual Britain's Rich List, the so called quote 435 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 1: definitive guide to the wealth of the UK's richest people unquote. 436 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,640 Speaker 1: The list offered up the lofty bottom lines of sirs, 437 00:26:55,720 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 1: dukes and captains of UK industry, and despite the turbulent 438 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 1: year Amy Winehouse had been having, not the least of 439 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: which included the violent an unhinged night out in Camden 440 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: Town from just four days earlier, Amy Winehouse found herself 441 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: on the list for the first time, with their estimated 442 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:19,919 Speaker 1: worth at ten million pounds. If the music charts and 443 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,679 Speaker 1: the album sales and the Grammy Awards hadn't made it 444 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: clear yet, and this certainly did, Amy Winehouse was not 445 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:31,640 Speaker 1: just famous like tabloid fodd or famous. She was successful, 446 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: one of the most successful performers in the UK. She 447 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 1: was a star. Not everyone was happy with that particular 448 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 1: piece of news. Mitch Winehouse, Amy's father, the same guy 449 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 1: who had once inspired some of the cheekiest lines and 450 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: Amy's iconic hit song, when he disregarded the advice of 451 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 1: others and told his daughter that she in fact did 452 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 1: not have to go to rehab. That Mitch Winehouse had 453 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 1: changed his tune and was now calling for Amy to 454 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 1: be committed to a mental institution. This particular piece of 455 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: news was published the very same day as Britain's Rich 456 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: List in a competing publication, News of the World. I 457 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: want her sanctioned, Mitch told the paper, referring to the 458 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: legal authority that trump individual consent for admission to a 459 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: hospital for the UK's Mental Health Act. Quote. The situation 460 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 1: is getting out of control. I want her off the street. 461 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 1: I don't think being somewhere for six weeks going to 462 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: cure her problems. I think she needs far more radical 463 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 1: measures on quote. Amy Wineho has continued to insist that 464 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: she wasn't going to be told what to do, not 465 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 1: even by her own father. What the hell happened? And 466 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: my daddy thinks I'm fine anyway. But there wasn't much 467 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,959 Speaker 1: one could do when Amy and made her round up. 468 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: Just ask Mustafa Elmo My. Her record company, however, agreed 469 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: with Mitch that more radical measures were needed. Lucian Grange 470 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: was not pleased that he had put expectations in place 471 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 1: with the contract he had Amy signed prior to the 472 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,320 Speaker 1: Grammy Awards, only for Amy to leave set expected in 473 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 1: her dust as she continued to drink and drug her 474 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: way to the front page of any tabloid that would 475 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 1: have her. If they weren't going to go so far 476 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: as to have her committed her section to use the 477 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 1: UK parlans, they could at least exhibit their own kind 478 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 1: of control. They could issue her an ultmato. If she 479 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: wanted this life, if she wanted to be able to sing, 480 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: to make the music that she wanted to hear, the 481 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: music that she thought was sorely lacking in the world, 482 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 1: then she would have to agree to some very specific parameters, 483 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 1: because she obviously couldn't be trusted on her own, even 484 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: if it meant locking her down in the house, arrest 485 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: stationing guards outside her doors, some muscle to shoot away 486 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 1: the paparazzi, and to keep Amy inside, away from the 487 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 1: bad influences, the drug dealers and drug takers, away from 488 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: the men she wanted to punch at pool tables and 489 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: headbut on street corners twenty four seven Surveillance. It would 490 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 1: be record label appointed rehab. She wouldn't go to a 491 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: facility she'd just sweated out at home, but every person 492 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 1: sworn to make her better, from Mitch Winehouse to the 493 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 1: suits at Island Records in Universal UK. We're seriously overestimating 494 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 1: Amy's desire to remain famous. She hadn't asked for this. 495 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 1: She didn't know how to handle it, the attention, the paparazzi, 496 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: the stories and the papers. Fun did anyone know how 497 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: to handle this? Ship? She'd even said it back in 498 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 1: two thousand three, back when she was on a promotional 499 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: tour for her debut album Frank. Not only did she 500 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 1: think she'd never become Capital F famous, she didn't think 501 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: she'd be able to handle it if she did. She 502 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 1: even said that she would go Matt What did any 503 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: of them think would happen? Why were they surprised she 504 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 1: said what she said back in two thousand three, and 505 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: now fame was here, So it begged the question was 506 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: she going mad? At times like this? Amy Winehouse just 507 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: wanted to go back to two thousand three, backed before 508 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: her face was plastered on every paper in the UK. 509 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: This wasn't happiness. Happiness to her sounded like a round 510 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 1: of pints at her local, a place where she could 511 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 1: get on a tiny stage in the corner when the 512 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: feeling suited her and sing a few tunes that a 513 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 1: few people will be watching her, not the entire world. 514 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 1: She just wanted to turn back time, just like her 515 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 1: music turned back time. That is, if she didn't run 516 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: out of time first. I'm Jake Brennan and this is 517 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: the seven Club. Club is hosted and produced by me 518 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: Jake Brennan for Double Elvis in partnership with I Heart Radio. 519 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 1: Zeth Lundie is the lead writer and co producer. This 520 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: episode was mixed by Matt Bowden. Additional music and score 521 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,360 Speaker 1: elements by Ryan Spraaker and Henry Lunetta. Story and copy 522 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: ending by Pat Healy. Sources for this episode are available 523 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: at Double Elvis dot com on the twenty seven Club 524 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 1: series page. 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