Amy Winehouse's
career, though meteoric, was unfortunately cut short by tragedy, but the
multi-GRAMMY® Award winner's musical legacy can now be appreciated anew with
Island Records/Universal Music Enterprises' digital re-mastering of her first
two albums. The sultry jazz-and-soul-tinged 2003 debut Frank, a testament to
her love of singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and
Nina Simone, led to her commercial breakthrough, Back To Black, issued in 2006,
which earned her a Best new Artist award at the Grammys the following years, as
well as Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and the
ultimate prizes, Record and Song of the Year for "Rehab." With five
GRAMMY® Awards, she was the first British female performer ever to win that
many. Both Frank and Back To Black have been re-released in digital form to
online retail partners June 30 on the heels of the critically acclaimed
documentary Amy.
Additionally, rare remixes issued for singles from the Back
To Black album – "Back To Black," "Rehab," "You Know
I'm No Good" and "Tears Dry On Their Own" – released July 17 as
digital e-singles; many of the remixes have been unavailable for several years.
Born in North London, Winehouse's vocal abilities were
apparent from an early age, and she began writing after picking up a guitar at
14. After writing for the World Entertainment News Network as a music
journalist and singing for a local group, Amy was the featured vocalist with
the National Youth Jazz Orchestra when she was 16 in 2000. By 2003, she was
signed to Simon Fuller's 19 Management, which developed her while she sang jazz
standards at clubs in and around London.
Frank: Winehouse's debut album, released October 20, 2003,
was named after her father Mitch's favorite singer – Sinatra, the Chairman of
the Board – as well as the honest nature of the lyrics. Produced mainly by
Salaam Remi, Frank featured songs co-written by Amy as well as three covers,
one of them a "hidden" track, "Mr. Magic (Through The
Smoke)," a masterful reinterpretation of the Grover Washington Jr. hit
"Mister Magic." Amy's composition "Stronger Than Me"
received the U.K.'s prestigious Ivor Novello Prize for Best Contemporary Song,
while the album earned her two BRIT Awards nominations and was short-listed for
the Mercury Prize; it went on to sell more than one million albums in the U.K.
The Washington Post noted, "Her attitude and command were already there…
and then some."
Track listing for Frank digital album:
1. Intro/Stronger
Than Me
2. You Sent Me
Flying/Cherry
3. Know You Now
4. F*** Me Pumps
5. I Heard Love Is
Blind
6. Moody's Mood/Teo
Licks
7. (There Is) No
Greater Love
8. In My Bed
9. Take the Box
10. October Song
11. What Is It About
Men
12. Amy Amy Amy
13. Outro
14. Brother
15. Mr. Magic
(Through the Smoke)
Back To Black: Released October 27, 2006, Winehouse's
multi-GRAMMY®-winning masterpiece reflected her growing interest in the girl
groups sound of the '50s and '60s. A "21st century soul classic" (The
Guardian), the album topped the U.K. chart, selling more than 3.6 million in
the U.K., where it is the second best-selling album since 2000 after Adele's
21. In the U.S. Back to Black peaked at No. 2 on both the Billboard 200 and Top
Alternative Albums chart, and sold three million copies; it has been certified
multi-platinum in 16 countries worldwide. Co-produced by Remi and Mark Ronson,
the album was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize while Amy picked up a Brit
Award for Best British Female Artist and Ronson won a GRAMMY® for Producer of
the Year. Of its five singles, "Rehab" and "Love Is A Losing
Game" earned Amy her second and third Ivor Novello Awards. The U.S. will
see a digital release of the U.K. version of the album for the first time,
which adds the track "Addicted," which had been previously unavailable
in the States. The original U.S. bonus tracks, "You Know I'm No Good"
featuring Ghostface Killer and "Rehab (Hot Chip Remix)" will be
available in the newly compiled digital e-singles.
Track listing for Back To Black digital album:
1. Rehab
2. You Know I'm No
Good
3. Me & Mr.
Jones
4. Just Friends
5. Back To Black
6. Love Is A Losing
Game
7. Tears Dry On
Their Own
8. Wake Up Alone
9. Some Unholy War
10. We Can Only Hold
Her
11. Addicted
Back To Black Remixes: Four separate digital singles
including rare remixes of each track, as below:
"Back To Black"
1. Back To Black - The Rumble Strips Remix
2. Back To Black - Mushtaq Vocal Remix
3. Back To Black - Original Demo
4. Back To Black - Vodafone Live At TBA
5. Back To Black - Steve Mac Vocal
"Rehab"
1. Rehab - Demo
Version
2. Rehab - Vodafone
Live At TBA
3. Rehab - Hot Chip
Remix
4. Rehab - Pharoahe
Monch Remix
5. Rehab - Remix
Featuring JAY-Z
"Tears Dry On Their Own"
1. Tears Dry On Their
Own - Vodafone Live At TBA
2. Tears Dry On Their
Own - Alix Alvarez Sole Channel Mix
3. Tears Dry On Their
Own - NYPC's F***ed Mix
4. Tears Dry On Their
Own - Al Usher Remix
5. Tears Dry On Their
Own - Kardinal Beats Remix
"You Know I'm No Good"
1. You Know I'm No
Good - Ghostface UK Version
2. You Know I'm No
Good - Skeewiff Mix
3. You Know I'm No
Good - Demo Version
4. You Know I'm No
Good - Vodafone Live At TBA
5. You Know I'm No
Good - Fettes Brot Remix
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