“She was listening to the mix for the first time with her head down on the desk for the whole song so I couldn’t read her reaction and then she just turned ’round, ‘I love it.’”Īs a bonus with the Back to Black making-of doc, Eagle Vision has added a previously unreleased concert from the 2008 Grammy night called An Evening in London that Winehouse performed for friends, family and record execs at Riverside Studios. For “Love Is a Losing Game,” Ronson knew Winehouse hated strings, calling them “hammy” and “schlocky… So I kind of did them, not really behind her back but, ‘Let me do some strings behind her back and maybe she’ll like it,’” he says, as the song plays in the background. There are equally interesting tidbits for all the songs. “The only thing, as a producer, you think everything should rhyme because that’s pop structure, and I remember when she showed me the chorus in ‘Back to Black’ - ‘We only said goodbye in words/ I died a thousand times’ - I was like, ‘Do you think that’s weird? Should you change it?’ She looked at me a little bit dumbfounded like, ‘Why would I change it? That is what came out. “I didn’t really question the lyrics,” he says.
Let me go write something to it,’” he recalls. “She came to the studio at noon and she was instantly, ‘Oh, cool. Ronson says he was inspired by the music she played him and came up with the piano part for “Black to Black” and added the drums and tambourine. Written by Winehouse and Mark Ronson and produced by Ronson, according to the Back to Black Songfacts, the song is about Winehouses break up with then boyfriend Blake Fielder-Civil. Winehouse’s best friend Juliette Ashby, goddaughter Dionne Bromfield, first manager Nick Shymansky and Island A&R executive Darcus Beese (now president of Island Records U.S.) are also among the interviewees.įor the title track, Winehouse reveals in the film that on her time off she’d play pool all day in the pub and listen to doo-wop and ’60s Motown girl groups on the jukebox, which influenced her. 'Back to Black' is a song by English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse from her second studio album, Back to Black (2006). The accounts are often paired with intimate footage of Winehouse creating and singing in the studio, as well as close-ups of her handwritten lyrics. In fresh interviews for the project, Back to Black producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, mix engineer Tom Elmhirst, and studio musicians from the Dap-Kings listen back to the songs and recall memories of the writing and recording sessions. The late singer-songwriters iconic album was.
Amy Winehouse 'Back to Black' Documentary Announced: Watch the Trailer Amy Winehouse’s iconic album Back to Black reached its 15th anniversary this week and is being celebrated in the singer’s beloved Camden Town.
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