BBC Music presents a portrait of Amy Winehouse - Amy Winehouse In Her Own Words - which will be available exclusively on BBC iPlayer from Monday 22 June at 6.30am.
The story is threaded together from extracts taken from interviews she gave to the BBC for a variety of music and documentary projects, including footage from the Jazz And Soul Britannia series on BBC Four, BBC One Sessions in 2007, Glastonbury 2004 and 2008, The 2004 Mercury Music Prize, Later with Jools Holland in 2006 and The Hootenanny 2006.
Much of the material has never previously been broadcast and is mixed with performances from across her career including some unseen footage of Amy performing Love Is A Losing Game and Wake Up Alone in a BBC One Session from 2007, and Stronger Than Me, a rarely seen acoustic set from Glastonbury in 2004.
Winehouse had a strong relationship with many parts of the BBC from when she launched herself as an artist back in 2004. In her short musical career, the North London native changed the landscape of modern pop culture, won countless awards, achieved critical acclaim and garnered global success before tragically dying at the tender age of 27.
Consisting of performances and interviews entirely from the BBC archives this film - only available on BBC iPlayer - celebrates Amy’s music, her influences, her challenges as an artist and her eternal brutal honesty in her own words.
In the programme, Amy Winehouse said: “I’d say to sing soul, I think you have to have grit, you have to be able to see through the world, you have to be able to be withdrawn sometimes and you have to be able to be your own best friend as well, it’s important. As well as your own worst enemy.”
