1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: The Club is a production of I Heart Radio and 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:09,639 Speaker 1: Double Elvis. Amy Winehouse died at the age of and 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 1: she lived a life that routinely straddled triumph and catastrophe. 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: I can give you twenty seven reasons why that statement 5 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: is true. Two was roughly the hour in the morning 6 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: that she would routinely call her manager from the bathrooms 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: of a handful of unspecified pubs in Camden, looking for 8 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: a ride and also for help. Another eight would be 9 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: the number of songs that would take before a kickoff 10 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: show for a fall tour went completely sideways and ended 11 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: in disaster. Eleven more would be the number of months 12 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 1: between a Victoria's show at Glastonbury and it ruined a 13 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: show at the very same festival the next year. Four 14 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: more would be the number of punches she would throw 15 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: into the audience from the photographer's pit at the latter 16 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: Glastonbury gig when the screaming, heckling, and flashbolving of eighty 17 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: thou concert ors became overwhelming. Into would be the number 18 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: of years she had left to live when she was 19 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: diagnosed with a disease so deadly she might need a 20 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: machine to breathe. All totally on this our third episode 21 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 1: of season four, unspecified Pubs Ruinous shows punches from the 22 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: pit in Amy Winehouse. I'm Jake Brennan in This is 23 00:01:26,400 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 1: the Seven clos Nick Shamanski wasn't sure what to do. 24 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,679 Speaker 1: Fish or cut, bait, call or don't call. He was 25 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: holding the phone receiver in his hand and he could 26 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: hear the dial tone humming it's one note song, and 27 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: the flatlining sound taunted him. Fuck it. He'd call her, 28 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: but he'd have to lie. Okay, well not lie, lie, 29 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: but stretch the truth a little bit, make himself seem 30 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: a little more important than he really was. That was 31 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: the name of the game. Any game that got played 32 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: in the music business sort of went by that name. 33 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 1: Fake it until you make it inspired trust, even if 34 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: you intend to break it, Walk into the room like 35 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: you already have the job. All that positive self esteem 36 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: inflating mumbo jumbo. It worked. And although she was only sixteen, 37 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: word was that she could smell bullshit a mile away, 38 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: even on the other end of a phone. That's what 39 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: Tyler James said. Anyhow, Tyler also told Nick that her 40 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: voice was incredible. Tyler was another teenage singer that Nick 41 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 1: was working with. He was his quote unquote manager. Okay again, 42 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: that man in a bit of a stretch. Nick was 43 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: only nineteen and Tyler was just getting started. But Nick's 44 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: family was in the business, and he aspired to join 45 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: the family business. From a young age. He endeavored to 46 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: do things that managers did. Book the show, she said, 47 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: of the gig, pick up, drop off, create the opportunity, 48 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: make the call. So Nick did what a manager would do, 49 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: and Cole called the secondary school dropout with the incredible voice. Hello, 50 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: is this Amy? Yeah? It was Amy? And who the 51 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: hell was asking? The guy was going to make her famous? 52 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: The guy who could open doors, That's who, motherfucker. Nick 53 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: went big. He was Brian Epstein without the polosh accent, 54 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: Peter Grant minus the menace, Malcolm McLaren without the fetish gear. 55 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: Amy was as at tized. She sniffed into her under 56 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: the phone line bullshit, but it was more than that. 57 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: It's what she defined as bullshit, the industry at the bizz, 58 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: the money of the fame. She didn't want any part 59 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: of any of that, so she hung up, but Nick 60 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 1: called her again. He altered his tactic. This time, he 61 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: got more real. She hung up on him a second time. 62 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: So he tried again, and by the third call, Nick 63 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,919 Speaker 1: had figured out that Amy Winehouse didn't need to be 64 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: wooed with promises of wealth and stardom, and Amy had 65 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: figured out that Nick Schmanski was a down to earth 66 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,919 Speaker 1: guy with a similar sense of humor and love for jazz, 67 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: who could become an honest ally in a shitty business 68 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 1: that was full of con artists and backstabbers. Soon after 69 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 1: that third conversation, Nick received the package in the mail. 70 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: It was covered in hearts and kisses stickers. Amy was 71 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: written all over the outside, probably upwards of a hundred times. 72 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: Inside was a demo tape. Nick popped the tape in 73 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: his car stereo, pressed play and heard Amy singing the 74 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 1: jazz standard night and day. She owned the tune, and 75 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: that was it. She was even better than Tyler had 76 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 1: said she was. In the following years, Amy and Nick 77 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: were inseparable as artist and manager. He booked the gig 78 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: or the session, and then literally drag her out of 79 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: bed if needed to get her there on time. He 80 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: was the one who reminded to grab her phone, her keys, 81 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 1: her passport. He carried a camera wherever they went and 82 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: recorded video for posterity. A lot of his early footage 83 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: would find its way into Asa Kapadia's two thousand and 84 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:36,679 Speaker 1: fifteen documentary on Amy. Nick was there for the writing, 85 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: recording a release of Amy's first album, Frank, and they 86 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 1: were making it up as they went along, the two 87 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: of them riding the wave of acclaim and God forbid 88 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: the title wave of fame that came along with it 89 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: and threatened to come crashing down on all they had 90 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: built up. Amy continued to insist she didn't want anything 91 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 1: to do with that, so Nick helped run interference on 92 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 1: the fame. But fame wasn't the only thing me Winehouse 93 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: had to worry about. In two thousand five, Nick returned 94 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: to London from holiday and everything had changed. Amy was 95 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 1: no longer Amy, at least not the Amy that he knew. 96 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: She'd flipped from one side of a record to the other, 97 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: from light to dark. She veered wildly from the past 98 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 1: that she had been forging with Nick and the person 99 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: she met on that detour, a man named Blake. Something 100 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: was off about him. Nick couldn't put his finger on it, 101 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: but seeing the two of them together just didn't feel 102 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: right at all. And then the phone calls started, not 103 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: like back in when Nick was nineteen and Amy was sixteen, 104 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,679 Speaker 1: and Nick was telling her what he thought she wanted 105 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: to hear in order to earn her trust as a client. 106 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: Now it was Amy calling Nick one am, two am, 107 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 1: three am. Nick's phone rang at all hours of the 108 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: evening in early morning, Nick, come get me, the voice 109 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: on the other end of the phone would say, and 110 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,359 Speaker 1: Nick knew it was Amy, but it always sounded like 111 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 1: someone else trying to sound like Amy, the Amy from 112 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: one side of the record, desperately trying to connect to 113 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: the Amy from the other side. Nick, Come get me. 114 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: I'm in the toilet at the pub. What probably you at, Amy, 115 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: Nick responded, The line went dead. Nick panicked. He hopped 116 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: in his car up and down Camden Town, scouring the 117 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: streets for the pubs with their lights still on process 118 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: of elimination. Sometimes he found her that wayfish body wrapped 119 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: around dirty porcelain in a bathroom, and other times it 120 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: was a fool's errand the calls always led to squabbles, 121 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: not just between an artist and her manager, but between 122 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: two friends. Nick said Amy wasn't denial denial that in 123 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: order to fend out the pressures of fame, she'd become 124 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: far too reliant on drugs and alcohol, denial that perhaps 125 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: in order to live out some mightyalized version of what 126 00:07:57,240 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: she thought a rock and roll stars should be, she 127 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: was rom antically involved with the kind of person who 128 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: would be her ruined, the kind of person who would 129 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: only make things worse. And finally, just like Nick had 130 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: long ago convinced Amy that he would make a good manager, 131 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: he once again flexed those manager chops and convinced her 132 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: to go to a rehabilitation facility. It was called Blue Water. 133 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: It was near where her father, Mitch Winehouse lived. Nick 134 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: also had buy in from Mitch, who said that he 135 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: would offer his complete support until he didn't. When Nick 136 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 1: and Amy got the Blue Water, Mitch pulled a one eight. 137 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,079 Speaker 1: So I would really have to go, daddy, Amy asked him, 138 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: with that heart string tugging tone that only the father 139 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 1: of a daughter knows, and only the father of a 140 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: daughter cannot resist. No, of course not, came Daddy's response. 141 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: Nick and Amy had come a long way over nearly 142 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: seven years, but now Nick was back to where he started. 143 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: That same feeling he had when he first rang her 144 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 1: up ball those years ago. He didn't know what to do. 145 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: He was pretty sure that no matter what he did, 146 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: it wouldn't help. He was also pretty sure that Namy 147 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 1: didn't want his help. She made that clear with her 148 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: biggest hit to date, released in two thousand and six. 149 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: That same year, the same year that Nick and Amy 150 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: ended their professional and personal relationship. Where As many listeners 151 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: her Rehab as black comedy or a defiant mission, statement, 152 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: to Nick, it was a disk track playing and simple. 153 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: He tried to make a go to rehab Nick and 154 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: she said no. Nick saw himself as the butt of 155 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: a joke of that song. But it was where his 156 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: Namy story ended. But it was far from the end 157 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: of the story. Nick knew that he just didn't want 158 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: to be there. When the story reached what would surely 159 00:09:43,840 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: be a tragic conclusion. The crowd was agitated, impatient, packed 160 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: like sardines inside Birmingham's National Indoor Arena. Showtime came and went. 161 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 1: It was November fourteenth, two thousand and seven, and the 162 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: opening night of Amy Winehouse's Fall tour was missing only 163 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 1: one thing, Amy Winehouse. She was late. The tardiness was 164 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 1: an expected deal of the whole experience. It was part 165 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: and parcelal of the rickety Amy Winehouse package, but that 166 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: didn't make it any less irritating to those who had 167 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: plunked down a portion of that week's paycheck for a ticket, 168 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: And by the time she appeared, some thirty minutes late, 169 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: the audience was already dealtful that they were going to 170 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: get a stellar performance. Amy walked on stage wearing a 171 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: mini skirt and low cut top. She clutched a glass 172 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 1: in one hand. She knocked the look wood back and 173 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,439 Speaker 1: gestured for another round, and the seven piece bands started 174 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: up and they sounded tight. Amy began to sing in 175 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: her jazz inflected voice was the perfect foil to the 176 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: steady backbeat, and the crowd was momentarily relieved. Maybe it 177 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: was going to be a great show after all. Amy 178 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: opened was addicted, and then just friends and tears drag 179 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: on their own. Each song sounded as good as the last, 180 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:30,840 Speaker 1: but the setist was long that night, seventeen songs plus 181 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: a two song encore. It was still plenty of show 182 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: to get through in plenty of time for it to 183 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:40,559 Speaker 1: go off the rails. Someone brought Amy another drink and another. 184 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: Amy's mind trailed on the crowd literally watched it happen. 185 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: She stood still, look straight up in her mind, just 186 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,679 Speaker 1: left gone. She dropped the microphone, picked it back up, 187 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: took another swig. She tried to pull it together and 188 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: dedicated the next song, wake Up Alone to Blake. Had 189 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: to work. That just made her cry. The next song, 190 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 1: Some Unholy War, made her cry even more. Her voice 191 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,559 Speaker 1: was no longer the perfect jazz inflected foil to her 192 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: type band's backbeat. It was that voice from somewhere, from 193 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: out of the past, the one that came from radio static, 194 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: But now it was its own static. Something pitiful half 195 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: formed the signal from the radio. Dying out, Amy stumbled 196 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 1: on the stage and a road. He caught her. Blake her, Blakey. 197 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: He was all she could think about. She knew the 198 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: audience that started to boom. She saw groups of the 199 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: crowd turned their backs and walk for the exits. They 200 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: had all written her off, just like that, not even 201 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: half an hour into her set. She didn't care. She 202 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: didn't listen to them. She kept thinking about Blake, wondering 203 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: if he was all right, wondering when he'd be back, 204 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: wondering if he thought about her the way she thought 205 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: about him. Just six days prior they took him away 206 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: in handcuffs, and the police had been waiting for Amy 207 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: and Blake to return home to their Camden flat that evening. 208 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: The same evening they had staged a raid when no 209 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: one was home. Once the couple was back, the cops 210 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: went through the motions all over again, only this time 211 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: they got what they wanted. Blake field her civil in 212 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 1: custody for attempting to pervert the course of justice. Amy 213 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: wouldn't let him go, and the tears ran down her 214 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: face and took eyeliner and mascara with them. She clung 215 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,959 Speaker 1: to Blake's arms, sobbing, and the cops tried to peel 216 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: her away, and they underestimated her love for him, her commitment, 217 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: and Blake tried to play it cool. He was tough, tall, tattooed, trouble. 218 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 1: He knew it, and they all knew it. He wasn't 219 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 1: the crying kind. He let Amy do the crying for 220 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: the both of them. A few days later, she'd gone 221 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,319 Speaker 1: to visit him in prison. More tears, more tough guy, 222 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: but cheese, more emanating from Blake. He look smaller behind bars, 223 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: And now back at the Burnley Game Show, Amy couldn't 224 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: help break down again. Blake's arrest consumed her. The crowd 225 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 1: had gone from restless to pleasantly surprised too honestly not surprised, 226 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: and back to restless again. The very few of them 227 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: were cheering her on anymore, and they booed, they jeered, 228 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: They headed for the exits, and they wanted their money back. 229 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: Who's booing? Amy asked, Her speech was slurred. She went 230 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: to work on a fresh drink in her hand. She 231 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: thought of Blake some more as she looked out on 232 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 1: the dwindling audience in front of her. To them people booing, 233 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: she said, wait till my husband gets out of incarceration. 234 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: And I mean that tom Stone wasn't waiting around for ship, 235 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: not for blake Field or Civil to make bail, not 236 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: for the next show on the tour, and not for anything. 237 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: Amy winos could go and funk right off. And when 238 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: she was done fucking right off, she could go find 239 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: herself a new tour manager. It wasn't that the opening 240 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: gig in Birmingham was a disaster, though it clearly was. 241 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: By the end of the set, it was hard to 242 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: discern any of the words that were coming from Amy's mouth, 243 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: and during the encore, which the audience hadn't exactly asked for. 244 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: It was simply an expected piece of musical theater. Amy 245 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: stopped singing in the middle of her version of the 246 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: Zooton's Valerie, dropped her microphone onto the stage, and stumbled 247 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: off as the mic fed back white noise into the crowd. 248 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: The headline on the BBC News website the next day 249 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: read wine House bowed as tour kicks off. Another headline 250 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: in The Independent read Drunken wine House heckled off stage 251 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: at shambolic concert. Now that show wasn't what had Tom 252 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: Stone packing it in after one night. It was what 253 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: he discovered at his doctor's office. Something you want to 254 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 1: tell me, Tom, the doctor asked, sitting across from Tom 255 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: in the sterile white examination room, routine test results in 256 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: his hands. Tom didn't have the foggiest There had been 257 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: no major changes to his health as far as he knew, 258 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: and he tried to keep it that way. Healthy as 259 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: healthy as one could be. Really, given his line of work. 260 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: Sure he was in the employee of Amy Winehouse, but 261 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: don't compare him to Amy Winehouse. He didn't have the 262 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: luxury to be burnt out on drinks and drugs. Seven, 263 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: because he had to be the responsible one. Like Nick 264 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: Shamansky before him, Tom had to get Amy and the 265 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 1: crew from one place to another. He had a purpose 266 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: and it was to be reliable. So color tom Stone 267 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: surprised when his doctor told him the traces of heroin 268 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: had been found in his system. And how the hell 269 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: did tom Stone get heroin in his system if he 270 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: didn't do heroin? The bus, the fucking tour bus stuck 271 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: inside that thing for miles upon miles, hours upon hours, 272 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: while Amy and Blake smoked what they wanted. Tom tried 273 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: to stay out of it. He didn't want to know 274 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: if they were smoking crack, cocaine or heroin back there. 275 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: It wasn't any of his business. He was paid to 276 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: make sure they got to the next city on time 277 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: and kept to the road were schedule. He wasn't her handler. 278 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 1: But toms Stone couldn't keep his head in the sand 279 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: any longer there was heroin in his system. He didn't 280 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: want heroin in his system, and there was only one 281 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: way for him to make sure it would leave his 282 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: system for good. He put the tour van in park, 283 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:30,919 Speaker 1: switched off the ignition, and walked away. We'll be right 284 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:38,360 Speaker 1: back after this word word word. It was the day 285 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: after Jimmie Hendricks died September. Michael Eavis didn't have time 286 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: to mourn the dearly departed guitar god dead at Michael 287 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: Eavis was busy worrying that he'd gotten in over his head. 288 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: He stood and watched in horror as one of his 289 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 1: hay wagons, the same one handed down to him by 290 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: his father, went up in flame. Games He could hear 291 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 1: the hay sizzle as the fire burned orange and blood 292 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: red against the backdrop of a starry night sky. What 293 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: had he signed up for? What had he done? He 294 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: was just a dairy farmer. He knew cows, English countryside, 295 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: stone cottages, the kind of pastoral life evoked by the 296 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: music of bands like Fairport Convention in Pentangle. He himself 297 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: loved music, but didn't know music festivals, especially not those 298 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: on the grand scale of America's Woodstock from the previous year, 299 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: or closer to home, the Bath Blues and Progressive Rock 300 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: Festival that had taken place earlier that summer, just an 301 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 1: hour up the road, with bands like Pink Floyd and 302 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: led Zeppelin spreading the gospel of electric urban music through 303 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:48,919 Speaker 1: the misty mountains. But how hard could it be? Michael 304 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: called Pilton home, a village of less than a thousand 305 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 1: people in Somerset, and there was more than enough room 306 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,160 Speaker 1: to set up a stage at Worthy farm. Bands could 307 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: use Michael's farmhouse for a dress sing room. How hard 308 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,120 Speaker 1: could it be? That was what Michael Jesus asked himself 309 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: as he threw a plan together for what he would 310 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 1: dub the Pilton Pop Blues and Folk Festival, a one 311 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: day event with about a dozen bands, free milk in 312 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: ox row stand as the handmade posters promised films, freaks 313 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 1: and funny things. As Saturday September nine approached, there was 314 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:26,160 Speaker 1: one particularly bad omen that Michael had to contend with. 315 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,640 Speaker 1: The festival's headliner, The Kinks, dropped out after they'd heard 316 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: the concert described as a mere mini festival. Ray Davies 317 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: literally went to his doctor and got a note that 318 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,360 Speaker 1: set his throat her and he couldn't sing better than 319 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: facing the humiliation of standing on a plywood stage and 320 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 1: playing village green to an actual fucking village. So Michael 321 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: scrambled and found two long haired folks with a token 322 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: fetish willing to step in Tyrannosaurus Rex joined the lineup 323 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 1: that included Jethro Talsey and Anderson, as well as an 324 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,360 Speaker 1: English blues band called steam Hammer, whose members would later 325 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,120 Speaker 1: go on to play with groups as disparate as Rod 326 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: Stewart and Tangerine Dream. The performances themselves were fine, and 327 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: everything went smoothly, even if Wayne Fontana was a no show, 328 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,919 Speaker 1: which to the assembled crowd of unlightened hippies was just 329 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: fine by them. The sun had already set on Fontana's 330 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: cheesy game of love horseshit it anyway, he was the 331 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: Hell's Angels who brought instability, doubt, in fear to the weekend. 332 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: The Hell's Angels for the reason that Michael Vis was 333 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,399 Speaker 1: standing in the middle of his field, his jaw on 334 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 1: the ground, watching his hay wagon burned to a crisp 335 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: as the flames rose, Michael's heart sank. How hard could 336 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: it be? This was how hard it could be. Michael 337 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:52,920 Speaker 1: Evis hired the Hell's Angels to work security for the festival. 338 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:57,119 Speaker 1: September wasn't even a year removed from the Rolling Stones 339 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,360 Speaker 1: infamous Altamont Speedway Free Festival, and which an angel stabbed 340 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 1: an audience member to death, and the Hell's Angels did 341 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: limit their damage at Pilton to non humans, but it 342 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 1: was damaged nonetheless, and it wasn't just Michael's hay wagon. 343 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,679 Speaker 1: They stole the ox from the Ox Roast, which, along 344 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: with the Kinks, was one of the two things promised 345 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,399 Speaker 1: on the festival's original poster that Michael now couldn't deliver. 346 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: But the worst thing about that weekend was the attendance. 347 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: Only people showed up half of what Michael Eavis had anticipated. 348 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 1: For a dairy farmer with a dream, it was a 349 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: serious financial blow. He didn't have enough money to cover costs. 350 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,159 Speaker 1: He lost all of his money. He bet the proverbial farm, 351 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: and now he was afraid he'd actually lose worthy farm. 352 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 1: Salvation came not just in the form of a sympathetic 353 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 1: financial institution that saw promise in an idea, but also 354 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 1: in the form of fellow organizers and collaborators who had 355 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 1: the vision to take Michael's concept to the next level. 356 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 1: And so, against all odds, the event came back the 357 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: following summer one, rebranded as the Glastonbury Fair, named for 358 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: a nearby town that had its own fabled history with 359 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 1: utopian movements decades later, Michael Eavis's Mini Festival as it 360 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: could had evolved into the Glastonbury Festival, a cultural beheemoth 361 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 1: that's spread out over multiple days. It no longer attracted 362 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,640 Speaker 1: a mere fifteen hundred people like it did in nineteen seventy. 363 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: These days it was more like a hundred and fifty thousand. 364 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 1: Some years even bigger three hundred thousand attendees reportedly descended 365 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 1: upon Pilton in Somerset, England for the festivals iteration every year. Glastonbury, 366 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 1: by way of Pilton transformed itself from sleepy farmland to 367 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 1: a vibrant, expanse hotbed of sound vision impossibility, even against 368 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: the odds of its traumatic origins. Amy Winehouse was thinking 369 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 1: back to her triumphant performance at the two thousand seven 370 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 1: Glastonbury Festival. The place itself was magical. It was mythical, 371 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: and not just because King Arthur is supposedly buried there. 372 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: Any UK performer worth their salt wanted to play the 373 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,679 Speaker 1: multi day music festival at Worthy Farm. It wasn't just 374 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 1: the magnitude of the place. It was a stage where 375 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: anything could happen, no matter the odds. Careers were made 376 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,719 Speaker 1: and remade in spite of the odds, David Bowie as 377 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:31,360 Speaker 1: a virtual unknown in one new order, playing synth rock 378 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:35,919 Speaker 1: to confused Bikers in eighty one, the Smith's unwittingly egging 379 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: on the Hippies in four and back in two thousand seven, 380 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 1: amid headlining performances by the likes of The Arctic Monkeys 381 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 1: and The Fucking Who, Amy Winehouse added her own name 382 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: to a long list of artists with careers to make, 383 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: odds to be in things to prove. In its rear view, 384 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: The Guardian called her voice flawless and hailed her set list, 385 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 1: which included not only originals from her two studio albums, 386 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 1: but inspired covers of Toots and the Maid, Tiles, Monkey Man, 387 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: Sam Cooke's Cupid, and of course the Zutons Valerie, which 388 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: she had easily made her own courtesy of her frequent 389 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:19,479 Speaker 1: collaborator Mark Ronson. And that was August two thousand seven, 390 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: a year ago, might as well have been a lifetime. 391 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: She thought back to the performance, to the way she 392 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,159 Speaker 1: was able to control her voice and command her band. 393 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: It was a little victory that just happened to be 394 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: one in front of a hundred and seventy seven thousand people. 395 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 1: Now it was June two. Amy Wine Else was back 396 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,120 Speaker 1: at Glastonbury, but little victories were in the rear view. 397 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: She looked out on the crowd and she saw a 398 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: sea of hands holding up pocket sized cameras, and they 399 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: weren't paying attention to the music. They didn't care that 400 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 1: the band was tight. She was giving them a ship 401 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,360 Speaker 1: performance this time around, and how could she not. Her 402 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: husband was about to be sentenced to jail for his 403 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,360 Speaker 1: role in the assault of pub land lord James King 404 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 1: in the subsequent attempt to obstruct justice. No, these people 405 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 1: with their cameras aloft wanted to capture whatever happened next 406 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 1: on video and then uploaded to YouTube, put it on 407 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 1: social media, or sell it to the highest bidder in 408 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 1: the tabloids. And there are all little paparazzi wankers that 409 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 1: are watching her story in the press all year. The 410 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: video of her smoking crack, the video of her singing 411 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 1: one amounted to a racist nursery rhyme. The attempts that rehab, 412 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: the fights and pubs and on street corners in Camden Town, 413 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: her own home rated by London's Finest. A seizure and 414 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 1: hospital stay brought on by the stress of a life 415 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: lived under a microscope. Amy Winehouse was a car wreck 416 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: and no one could turn away from it, so they 417 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,679 Speaker 1: kept watching. They kept their cameras rolling, and Amy walked 418 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,919 Speaker 1: down from the stage into the photographer's pit, close to 419 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: the audience, microphone in her hand, and maybe she could 420 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: make a musical or emotional connection by also making a 421 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: physical connection. She felt hands run over her body, voices 422 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: screaming her name as she sang. Cameras rolled lenses in 423 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 1: her face in front of her. Behind her, she felt 424 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: a tug on her behind hair do someone got a 425 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: little too handsy and groped at her breasts. She swore 426 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: she heard someone in the crowd talk shit about Blake 427 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,399 Speaker 1: and that was the last straw. She looked out at 428 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: the faces directly in front of her chose one didn't 429 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 1: matter who it was, if they yanked on her hair, 430 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 1: or grabbed her body, or insulted her man, any face 431 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,880 Speaker 1: would do. With one eye on the security guard shadowing 432 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,400 Speaker 1: her every move, Amy held the mic with her left 433 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: hand and gave a quick jab of her elbow into 434 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 1: the crowd. She felt the connect with someone's body, a 435 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: shoulder in our maybe a face, but it wasn't forceful enough. 436 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 1: She knew that the security guard was watching her every move, 437 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 1: but she didn't care. She also didn't care that her 438 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 1: performance was being filmed, like most of the festival's performances, 439 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: by television cameras, This on top of the many personal 440 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,919 Speaker 1: cameras hoisted in the air and thrust in her face. 441 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: She tightened her grip on the mic, saying a few 442 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,440 Speaker 1: more lyrics, and when she reached a gap between lines, 443 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: she bawled up her right fist and sank it into 444 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 1: the crowd. Once she connected with someone shirt twice, she 445 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: with three times Bam a skull. That's what she was 446 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: going for, the dull flack of skin on skin, drowned 447 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,880 Speaker 1: out by the music and the crowd noise. She went 448 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: in for a fourth punch, but at this point the 449 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: security guard had stepped in and moved her away from 450 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 1: the crowd. It was her against eighty thousand. Most would 451 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 1: have been against her, but she liked those odds, especially 452 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,919 Speaker 1: at a place as magical and mythical as Glasston Berry, 453 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: and especially if like Gamy Winehouse, it felt like every 454 00:27:50,359 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 1: day there was less and less to lose. Monday, July 455 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 1: two thousand, East London, Amy Winehouse wasn't in attendance at 456 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: the snares Brook Crown Court. She didn't get to hear 457 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: firsthand as a judge described her husband as cowardly and disgraceful. 458 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: She didn't get to watch as that same judge sentenced 459 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: Blake to twenty seven months in jail for the two 460 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 1: thousand and six assault of Landlord James King outside the 461 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: Macbeth Pub, along with subsequent attempt to obstruct justice. The 462 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: judge described the attack, which left King with metal plates 463 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: in his face and indefinite therapy, as vicious and one sided. 464 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,680 Speaker 1: Blake was drunk and high on coke that night of 465 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: the attack. Now standing in court in front of a judge, 466 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: he was no longer high, but he was dry sober 467 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 1: as the judge whould put him away. He didn't feel 468 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 1: much of anything, to be honest, He didn't frown, didn't smile, 469 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: didn't indicate that what was being said to him or 470 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 1: what was being handed down to him at any effect 471 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: at all. And the way Blake saw it, he had 472 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 1: already served nine months on romand if he acted on 473 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 1: his best behavior, he'd be able to taste freedom in 474 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 1: the next four or five months. Big fucking deal. As 475 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 1: the courtroom staff led him away to his cell, he 476 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: stole a glimpse at the small collection of family and 477 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 1: friends who had gathered in the overcrowded public gallery. I'll 478 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: see soon, he mouthed with his lips. It would not 479 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: be soon enough for Amy, who felt Blake's continued absence 480 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: more than anyone president at the Snaresbrook Crown Court that day. 481 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 1: She had been luckier than Blake when it came to 482 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 1: her own case of assault. The man she clocked in 483 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: the head at Glastonbury opted not to press charges. At 484 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: the end of the day, he told Daily Mail, It's 485 00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: all part of being at the front, to be honest 486 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,680 Speaker 1: with you, and being crushed by thousands of people here 487 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 1: at Glastonbury. At the end of that day, Amy Winehouse 488 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: just wanted to get as far away from people as 489 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 1: she could people, all those fucking people. She coughed, her 490 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 1: lungs burned. She felt a tightness in her chest and 491 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 1: wondered if another panic attack was coming. She continued to 492 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: cough and her lungs burned even more, which reminded her 493 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: that her night wasn't over. In some ways, it was 494 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 1: just beginning. She climbed into a helicopter on the outskirts 495 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: of the Glastonbury Festival grounds and flew directly to the 496 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: London Clinic, a private healthcare organization on the corner of 497 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: Devonshire Place and Marley Vun Road. Unlike her previous inc 498 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: in rehab, however, the London Clinic wasn't treating Amy for 499 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 1: drug addiction. They were treating Amy for an early onset 500 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 1: of emphysema at twenty four years old. Her father, Mitch Winehouse, 501 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 1: had broken the news to the UK tabloid The Sunday 502 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 1: Mirror earlier in June. Her lungs were at seventy capacity. 503 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 1: She made me a breathing apparatus just to get around. 504 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: He said that doctors had urged Amy to quit smoking 505 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: everything from cigarettes to crack cocaine, that if she continued 506 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 1: to smoke, it wouldn't just destroy your voice. Her life 507 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 1: was literally on the line. She voted to get clean. 508 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: Don't worry about me, dad, she reported. Me told Mitch, 509 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 1: I know, I get to stop taking drugs now. Mitch 510 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: had heard that one before everyone had. Even Amy had 511 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 1: heard herself for pete empty promises on the regular. She 512 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: had to want it a reason to get better, to 513 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 1: stay alive. She hoped that Blake was behaving himself behind bars, 514 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 1: that his release would come sooner than later. They said 515 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: he was no good, that he was a major reason 516 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,560 Speaker 1: why she was addicted in the first place, But she disagreed, 517 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 1: not her Blakey seeing him again on the outside, that 518 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 1: was something she could work towards, something she could live for. 519 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: Whether or not she could actually do it, only time 520 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,320 Speaker 1: would tell, and whether or not Emy Winehouse knew it, 521 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 1: time was something that was most definitely not on her side. 522 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan and this is the Seven Club. Seven 523 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: Club is hosted and produced by me Jake Brennan for 524 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 1: Double Elvis in partnership with I Heart Radio. 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