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Amy Winehouse cancels part of European tour after jeers in Belgrade

Amy Winehouse has called off some European tour dates after she was jeered for a shambolic performance during a concert in Serbia.

Saturday's gig in Belgrade kicked off what was to be a 12-date tour. But Winehouse, who has reportedly struggled for years with drug and alcohol issues, was booed for arriving almost an hour late and then stumbling to the stage and appearing unable to remember the lyrics to her songs. She dropped the microphone, mumbled through her songs and occasionally disappeared, leaving her band to keep on playing.

A video posted on YouTube shows Winehouse wildly staggering around while trying to sing and stopping several times in mid-verse, looking over to her bandmates for help. At one point, she calls over a backup singer to fill in for her.

Serbian media described the concert before 20,000 fans as a "scandal" and a "disaster". The Blic daily, which posted a clip from the concert on its website with the warning "Listen if you dare", said the concert was "the worst in the history of Belgrade".

After the show Winehouse's publicists Outside Organisation cancelled concerts in Istanbul on Monday and in Athens on Wednesday. A statement said fans would be told "as soon as possible" whether the rest of her European programme would be fulfilled and apologised on the singer's behalf for the cancellations.

"Despite feeling sure that she wanted to fulfil these commitments, she has agreed with management that she cannot perform to the best of her ability and will return home," the statement said.

The next scheduled concert date after Athens is 8 July in Bilbao, with a final date in Bucharest on 15 August.

The crowd at Belgrade's Kalemegdan Park could hardly tell which song Winehouse was singing and responded angrily. Many walked out in disappointment. "It was horrible," said Ivana Bilic. "She should have cancelled the whole thing, rather than appear at all like this."

Tickets for the show in Belgrade, where average salaries are about €300 (£265) a month, cost around €40 (£35).

Winehouse's 2006 breakthrough album Back to Black won five Grammy awards, but her music has since become overshadowed by her chaotic lifestyle and run-ins with the law.

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Troubled diva Amy Winehouse has canceled the rest of her European summer concert tour and scrapped all public performances after an embarrassing appearance in Serbia, her spokesman said Tuesday…

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Troubled diva Amy Winehouse has canceled the rest of her European summer concert tour and scrapped all public performances after an embarrassing appearance in Serbia, her spokesman said Tuesday.

Chris Goodman said Winehouse, who has struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, “is withdrawing from all scheduled performances.”

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Winehouse’s show in Belgrade on Saturday kicked off what was supposed to be a 12-stop European tour. But she was jeered and booed as she erratically stumbled around the stage, unable to remember the lyrics to her songs.

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Serbian media called the concert a “scandal,” with the Blic daily labeling it “the worst in the history of Belgrade.”

The next day, management canceled this week’s shows in Istanbul and Athens. Further dates in Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Romania have now been scrapped.

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The tour had been due to end in Bucharest on Aug. 15th.

Winehouse’s breakthrough album, 2006’s “Back to Black,” won her five Grammy Awards and brought her worldwide stardom.

The album included the hit single, “Rehab,” on which she sang: “They tried to make me go to rehab. I said ‘No, no, no.'”

The song was prophetic: Winehouse’s music has been overshadowed by alcohol and drug use and run-ins with the law.

The 27-year-old British singer has, in fact, sought rehab therapy in the past. Last month she spent a week in London’s Priory clinic, which offers treatment for psychiatric problems, drug and alcohol addiction.

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“Everyone involved wishes to do everything they can to help her return to her best and she will be given as long as it takes for this to happen,” Goodman said.

In addition to her stage troubles, Winehouse’s recording career has also been put on hold. There have long been plans for a follow up to “Back to Black,” but new material has not been released.

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Amy Winehouse has once again checked into rehab . The singer has entered a treatment program at the Priory Clinic in London at the urging of her father. According to a statement released to People by her representative, Winehouse “wants to be ready for performances in Europe this summer and decided to seek an assessment.”

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After being booed at her first stop in Serbia, the troubled singer cancels her next two scheduled appearances.

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Amy Winehouse may be headed back to rehab.

Following a disastrous performance in Belgrade, Serbia, during which the crowd booed Winehouse for arriving late and appearing too intoxicated to perform, the British singer is backing out of the next two stops on her upcoming European tour.

The Associated Press reports that according to a statement from publicity company Outside Organization, Winehouse will no longer perform in Istanbul, Turkey on Monday or Athens, Greece on Wednesday. It remains to be seen whether Winehouse will cancel the rest of the 12-date tour, which includes concerts in Spain, Switzerland and Romania.

“Despite feeling sure that she wanted to fulfill these commitments, she has agreed with management that she cannot perform to the best of her ability and will return home,” said the statement, adding that Winehouse wanted to apologize to the fans who had been looking forward to seeing her on Monday and Wednesday.

This is the latest in a string of problems for the singer, who has battled drug and alcohol addiction for years. The European tour had been hailed as a comeback tour to celebrate her recent release from rehab.

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(CNN) -- Amy Winehouse has canceled the remainder of her 12-city European concert tour, the singer's representative said Tuesday.

"Everyone involved wishes to do everything they can to help her return to her best and she will be given as long as it takes for this to happen," representative Chris Goodman said in a statement.

Audience members in Belgrade, Serbia, booed Winehouse off the stage Saturday night just a few songs into the first concert of the tour.

Videos recorded by audience members showed Winehouse apparently having difficulty singing some of the lines of her songs. Audience members and her back-up singers filled in the gaps at times.

Winehouse on Sunday canceled appearances in Istanbul and Athens. The decision to cancel the remainder of the tour was announced Tuesday.

Winehouse recently left a British rehab program that a representative said was intended to prepare her for the European concerts.

On Sunday, Winehouse representative Tracey Miller did not directly confirm that the "Rehab" singer, who has a history of battling drugs and alcohol, had begun drinking or using drugs again.

"Despite feeling sure that she wanted to fulfill these commitments, she has agreed with management that she cannot perform to the best of her ability and will return home," Miller said over the weekend.

CNN's Denise Quan and Per Nyberg contributed to this report.

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LONDON (AP) — Troubled diva Amy Winehouse has canceled the rest of her European summer concert tour and scrapped all public performances after an embarrassing appearance in Serbia, her spokesman said Tuesday.

Chris Goodman said Winehouse "is withdrawing from all scheduled performances."

Winehouse's show in Belgrade on Saturday kicked off what was supposed to be a 12-stop European tour. But she was jeered and booed as she erratically stumbled around the stage, unable to remember the lyrics to her songs.

The next day, management canceled her shows in Istanbul and Athens this week.

The rest of the tour -- which was due to end in Bucharest, Romania, on Aug. 15 -- has now been scrapped.

Winehouse's breakthrough album, 2006's "Back to Black," won her five Grammy Awards and brought her worldwide stardom, but her music has been overshadowed by her alcohol and drug use and run-ins with the law.

The 27-year-old British singer has sought rehab therapy in the past and last month spent a week in London's Priory clinic, which offers treatment for psychiatric problems, drug and alcohol addiction.

"Everyone involved wishes to do everything they can to help her return to her best and she will be given as long as it takes for this to happen," Goodman said.

(© Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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Troubled diva Amy Winehouse has canceled the rest of her European summer concert tour and scrapped all public performances after an embarrassing appearance in Serbia, her spokesman said Tuesday.

Chris Goodman said Winehouse, who has struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, “is withdrawing from all scheduled performances” to focus on recovering.

“Everyone involved wishes to do everything they can to help her return to her best and she will be given as long as it takes for this to happen,” Goodman said.

He did not disclose the reason for her unsteady appearance in Belgrade.

Winehouse’s show on Saturday kicked off what was supposed to be a 12-stop European tour. But she was jeered and booed as she stumbled around the stage, unable to remember the lyrics to her songs.

Serbian media called the concert a “scandal,” with the Blic daily labeling it “the worst in the history of Belgrade.”

The next day, Winehouse’s management canceled this week’s shows in Istanbul and Athens. Further dates in Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Romania have now also been scrapped.

The tour had been due to end in Bucharest on Aug. 15.

Winehouse’s breakthrough album, 2006’s “Back to Black,” won her five Grammy Awards and brought her worldwide stardom,

The album included the hit single, “Rehab,” on which she sang: “They tried to make me go to rehab. I said ‘No, no, no.’”

The song was prophetic: Winehouse’s music has been overshadowed by alcohol and drug use and run-ins with the law, as well as a tempestuous marriage to music industry hanger-on Blake Fielder-Civil. The pair married in 2007 but divorced two years later.

The 27-year-old British singer has, in fact, sought rehab therapy in the past. In October, Winehouse said she had been drug-free for three years, but her public behavior has continued to appear erratic.

Last month she spent a week in London’s Priory clinic, which offers treatment for psychiatric problems, drug and alcohol addiction.

In addition to her stage troubles, Winehouse’s recording career has also been put on hold. There have long been plans for a follow up to “Back to Black,” but new material has not been released.

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LONDON (AP) — Troubled diva Amy Winehouse has canceled the rest of her European summer concert tour and scrapped all public performances after an embarrassing appearance in Serbia, her spokesman said Tuesday.

Chris Goodman said Winehouse, who has struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, "is withdrawing from all scheduled performances" to focus on recovering.

"Everyone involved wishes to do everything they can to help her return to her best and she will be given as long as it takes for this to happen," Goodman said.

He did not disclose the reason for her unsteady appearance in Belgrade.

Winehouse's show on Saturday kicked off what was supposed to be a 12-stop European tour. But she was jeered and booed as she stumbled around the stage, unable to remember the lyrics to her songs.

Serbian media called the concert a "scandal," with the Blic daily labeling it "the worst in the history of Belgrade."

The next day, Winehouse's management canceled this week's shows in Istanbul and Athens. Further dates in Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Romania have now also been scrapped.

The tour had been due to end in Bucharest on Aug. 15.

Winehouse's breakthrough album, 2006's "Back to Black," won her five Grammy Awards and brought her worldwide stardom,

The album included the hit single, "Rehab," on which she sang: "They tried to make me go to rehab. I said 'No, no, no.'"

The song was prophetic: Winehouse's music has been overshadowed by alcohol and drug use and run-ins with the law, as well as a tempestuous marriage to music industry hanger-on Blake Fielder-Civil. The pair married in 2007 but divorced two years later.

The 27-year-old British singer has, in fact, sought rehab therapy in the past. In October, Winehouse said she had been drug-free for three years, but her public behavior has continued to appear erratic.

Last month she spent a week in London's Priory clinic, which offers treatment for psychiatric problems, drug and alcohol addiction.

In addition to her stage troubles, Winehouse's recording career has also been put on hold. There have long been plans for a follow up to "Back to Black," but new material has not been released.

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She was a once-in-a-generation talent.

And she captured the imagination of both the mainstream pop charts and lovers of the timeless soul music of yesteryear.

But the story of Amy Winehouse and her life in the spotlight is sadly a cautionary tale of the excesses of fame and the following fallout.

In possession of an iconic, spine-tinglingly soulful voice and a heart-on-her-sleeve style of songwriting that laid her emotions bare, Amy became a global phenomenon.

Her second and most successful album Back To Black spawned five singles in total: 'Rehab', 'You Know I'm No Good', 'Back to Black', 'Tears Dry on Their Own' and 'Love Is a Losing Game', all of which were written by Amy herself.

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She became renowned for her unique voice, her singular style, and her personable attitude, paving the way for neo-soul stars like Adele , Sam Smith , and Emeli Sandé to storm the charts themselves.

Tragically, Back To Black would be her final album, in a relatively brief career marred by setbacks and addiction.

It was addictions that Amy Winehouse ultimately and sadly succumbed to in 2011, as she died of an alcohol overdose at the age of just 27.

But in the days leading up to her untimely death, she was evidently on the brink of self-destruction.

In an age where there was little (if any) media sympathy for celebrities struggling in the limelight, Amy would feature prominently in the headlines.

Tabloid photos of Amy stumbling out of her local Camden pub or drunkenly arguing on the streets with her previous partner Blake Fielder-Civil were a frequent occurrence when she achieved enormous fame.

It came to the point that, even with her immense talent, she'd lost the faith of her fans and her peers.

But when she needed help the most, the tabloids and paparazzi were primed to humiliate her.

The chaotic state of her personal life would unsurprisingly impact her working life too, with progress on her follow-up to Back To Black frequently dashed by her relapsing.

Ever since the release of her Grammy and BRIT Award -winning 2006 album, her life would spiral out of control.

Soon after the release of Back To Black , Amy replaced her manager Nick Shymansky with promoter Raye Cosbert.

Shymansky was a long-time friend of Amy's who worked with her as early as her days singing in jazz and dive bars as an unknown.

Cosbert, however, was a reputed promoter whose job was to get Amy on stage every night, often turning a blind eye to her habits off-stage.

This approach meant that as soon as Amy made the stage, his job was fulfilled, despite the often hazardous outcome of having Amy inebriated during her performances in front of an unforgiving public.

During the last year of her life, her performances worsened as did her dependence on alcohol.

If she was too intoxicated, her shows were either cancelled halfway through or wouldn't even go ahead full-stop as she slurred her words and forgot her lyrics.

It came to a head during her 12-leg European tour in 2011 when Cosbert and her father Mitch pushed ahead with the proposed dates despite Amy's friends begging her to cancel.

On the first night of that tour Amy performed in Belgrade, Serbia. It would be her final-ever official show.

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Her performance became infamous, and was a clear indication that Amy was in need of serious care.

Newspaper reports claimed she stumbled across the stage for almost 45 minutes, forgetting her words, forgetting the names of her bandmates, and even forgetting which city she was in.

There is footage of her performance (which you can see above) but it's uncomfortable viewing.

She forgets the words to the likes of 'Addicted', 'Just Friends', ' Valerie ', and relies on her backing singer Zalon Thompson to push her through 'Tears Dry On Their Own'.

Arguably the most tragic moment of her performance however was during ‘Some Unholy War’ where she momentarily forgets the words and Zalon whispers them to her in her ear.

Amy then becomes emotional and breaks down at the fact she's struggling. But then the crowd heap more pressure on her and begin to boo.

She hugs herself and holds back her tears, in a moment that no doubt felt incredibly isolating.

For the rest of the show her performances are off-key and out of sync, with Amy sitting back and letting her backing singers take the lead on several songs.

After she and her band left the stage, sadly Amy would never return.

Her next two performances were soon cancelled, and not longer after the remainder of her tour.

Not much was seen of Amy in the immediate aftermath of her catastrophic tour, until a month later where she'd make her final stage appearance.

Amy would perform at her goddaughter Dionne Bromfield’s concert at the Roundhouse in Camden, singing a version of the classic R&B song ‘Mama Said’.

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Tragically, just three days later, Amy Winehouse was found dead in her Camden flat.

A unique talent who was lost too soon, one that changed the way we treated celebrities in the media, especially those who were clearly struggling.

Sadly for Amy however, it was too late. But the mark she left on British music will be felt for decades to come.

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LONDON - Troubled diva Amy Winehouse has cancelled the rest of her European summer concert tour and scrapped all public performances after an embarrassing appearance in Serbia, her spokesman said Tuesday.

Chris Goodman said Winehouse, who has struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, "is withdrawing from all scheduled performances" to focus on recovering.

"Everyone involved wishes to do everything they can to help her return to her best and she will be given as long as it takes for this to happen," Goodman said.

He did not disclose the reason for her unsteady appearance in Belgrade.

Winehouse's show on Saturday kicked off what was supposed to be a 12-stop European tour. But she was jeered and booed as she stumbled around the stage, unable to remember the lyrics to her songs.

Serbian media called the concert a "scandal," with the Blic daily labeling it "the worst in the history of Belgrade."

The next day, Winehouse's management cancelled this week's shows in Istanbul and Athens. Further dates in Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Romania have now also been scrapped.

The tour had been due to end in Bucharest on Aug. 15.

Winehouse's breakthrough album, 2006's "Back to Black," won her five Grammy Awards and brought her worldwide stardom,

The album included the hit single, "Rehab," on which she sang: "They tried to make me go to rehab. I said 'No, no, no."'

The song was prophetic: Winehouse's music has been overshadowed by alcohol and drug use and run-ins with the law, as well as a tempestuous marriage to music industry hanger-on Blake Fielder-Civil. The pair married in 2007 but divorced two years later.

The 27-year-old British singer has, in fact, sought rehab therapy in the past. In October, Winehouse said she had been drug-free for three years, but her public behaviour has continued to appear erratic.

Last month she spent a week in London's Priory clinic, which offers treatment for psychiatric problems, drug and alcohol addiction.

In addition to her stage troubles, Winehouse's recording career has also been put on hold. There have long been plans for a follow up to "Back to Black," but new material has not been released.

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After a triumphant first leg in the US , 00s icons The Jonas Brothers have infuriated their fanbase as they postpone all their concerts in Europe.

The trio — Kevin , Joe , and Nick Jonas — announced ‘exciting projects’ that meant they had decided to hold off on the next section of their Five Albums One Night tour.

This announcement has not sat well with ticket-holders, many of whom had booked accommodation and travel in order to see the Sucker hitmakers in the next three months.

‘We have shifted the European dates to later this year, but that is only because we have some exciting projects that we’re very excited to share with you at a later point,’ Nick shared.

He continued: ‘European fans, we love you, we can’t wait to see you, it’s been long overdue. And we are so excited to play these shows later this year, in the fall.’

Kevin chimed in that gig-goers should hold onto their tickets as they will still be valid in October, however, it seems disappointed fans are now demanding refunds.

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Across social media the band has been denounced by their loyal followers , as Samariya Mileth vented: ‘Honestly… what the F is wrong with the Jonas Brothers management?

‘At this point, they’ll have 0 fans left outside US. They just postpone shows like it’s a walk in the park, it happened in Mexico (more than once) and now happened in Europe. So disrespectful and disappointing.’

The change of dates moves gigs from May and June — competing with Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour — to September and October, when schools go back.

On X, Isabel Sofie added: ‘Jonas Brothers rescheduling their tour without a decent apology is just so so disrespectful. Yes life happens, but so does the life of the fans who have planned everything around these dates.’

What the heck kind of project just sprung up out of nowhere that was SO important that its worth wasting your fans’ money? What, another music video or something? This project cant wait? Also why start or agree to a project knowing you are busy with a tour? Disrespectful. — Whitney H (@DancingShadow18) April 12, 2024

This is really disrespectful and shows that you’re only interested in 💰 you can’t do that 1 month before the show. Are you going to pay the hotels and flights that we already bought months ago??? Been a fan since the beginning and I’m really disappointed — Beatriz Navarro (@navarrob95) April 11, 2024

@jonasbrothers I paid for tickets to your show in June and I am feeling incredibly disappointed that you have moved your dates due to “exciting projects”. There wasn’t an acknowledgment of this disruption in your communications. No sorry, no option for refunds. This is not okay. — Asha!!💞 (@AshaAshasutton) April 12, 2024

However, it may be more than an apology needed at this point as fans took to social media to lament the difficulty in accessing refunds.

Many rescheduled travel and accommodation or cancelled where possible but particularly those with tickets to Milan have struggled to get their money back.

Commenting on a viral TikTok by @mentallygrowing247, Connie Austin shared: ‘I’m from the uk and bought tickets to see them in Milan, we tried to get a refund but couldn’t because the show wasn’t cancelled and the organisers haven’t authorised it.’

Mara replied: ‘Same for Milan!!!! I live in Greece booked for Milan, and I’m trying to get a refund back and I got no response from vivaticket.’

Other helpful fans asked if Connie had contacted the seller, to which she replied: ‘Yeahh we emailed them and they explained that because it isn’t cancelled we can’t get a refund – we’re going to keep trying.’

Vivaticket appeared to be a sore spot for Italian fans, especially as the website’s FAQ states service fees for buying the tickets are not part of the refund.

In response to the Jonas Brothers’ tweet, X was flooded with people asking how to get their money back as no easy route was to be given in emails received by ticket holders.

Word-of-mouth seems to be how many fans have accessed refunds, with the solution being contacting contact customer services and arguing their case.

UK fans who purchased through Ticketmaster appear to be able to get a full refund by reaching out to the distributor, with many already seeing money back in their banks.

It’s unknown how many fans are requesting refunds but if social media is anything to go by, the Jonas Brothers could be looking at a very low turnout.

Some have speculated they may even end up cancelling after the immense backlash and possibly empty seats.

Currently, Australia is hosting the former Disney stars but fans have reported slashed prices on the doors as venues in Melbourne and Sydney failed to be filled.

Aussie fans complained that tickets previously costing $200 are now being flogged for $80 and even ‘free’, according to some last minute gig-goers.

However, other videos showed a packed out venue dancing away to SOS, Lovebug, and other hits.

The Jonas Brothers will now come to the UK for eight gigs in early September, with tickets still available through Ticketmaster.

Metro.co.uk has reached out to Live Nation, Vivaticket, and the Jonas Brothers for comment.

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Nick Cave and Warren Ellis share ‘Song For Amy’ from new Amy Winehouse film ‘Back To Black’

The song features over the opening credits of the biopic, which is out now

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have shared ‘Song For Amy’, a song they wrote for the new Amy Winehouse biopic ‘Song For Amy’ – listen below.

• READ MORE: ‘Back To Black’ review: Marisa Abela makes a worthy Amy Winehouse

The delicate, orchestrated track features over the opening credits of the film, which is out in UK cinemas now. Elegant strings underscore Cave’s deeply felt vocals as he sings, “ You say that it’s time for us to call it a day / But I will love you anyway ”.

Listen to ‘Song For Amy’ below:

Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s  Back to Black  tells the Winehouse story in a feature film for the first time. It follows Amy from her teenage years, growing up in north London, through her meteoric rise to Grammy-winning sensation in the 2000s. Alongside Marisa Abela ( Industry ) in the lead role are BAFTA-nominated actor Jack O’Connell, Lesley Manville, Eddie Marsan and Juliet Cowan. Screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh ( Nowhere Boy ,  Ian Curtis  biopic  Control ) has written the screenplay.

It was confirmed in February that Cave and Ellis would be involved with the film , with Taylor-Johnson describing them as “the only musicians” that were in her mind for the role.

“Over the years, I’ve listened to everything they’ve composed and longed to realize the dream of working together,” she said. “Their sensibility as well as understanding of this story has led to a profoundly deep and moving film score.”

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The full soundtrack, ‘Back To Black: Songs From the Original Motion Picture’, will be released on May 17 via UMR/Island Records, and will feature Winehouse’s original recordings, as well as tracks from some of her inspirations, including The Shangri-Las ,  Billie Holiday , Minnie Riperton, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan.

• READ MORE:   The timeless influence of Amy Winehouse: “Her legacy is beyond comprehension”

NME has also released a special print edition celebrating the life and legacy of the singer , which is available for free now and has been distributed across the UK. See the full list of outlets here .

In a four-star review of the film , NME wrote: “Obviously, it was going to be tough for  Back To Black  to surpass Winehouse’s 2006 album of the same name – what could? – but Taylor-Johnson’s film is more than deserving of your time. It offers a welcome reminder of Winehouse’s plucky spirit – something that often gets lost when her life is reduced to a hackneyed tale of talent and tragedy.”

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds , meanwhile, are due to release their new album ‘Wild God’ on August 30 ( pre-order/pre-save here ), and they have already shared its title track .

Cave recently told fans that the album is “full of secrets” . He has also explained that  the collection isn’t “set through a lens of loss”  unlike its predecessors  ‘Skeleton Tree’  (2016) and  ‘Ghosteen’  (2019), which dealt with the grief Cave experienced following  the death of his 15-year-old son, Arthur, in 2015 .

The band are also set to embark on a European, UK and Ireland tour  later this year in support of the album. When announcing the dates, Cave said: “The record just feels like it was made for the stage.”  Find any remaining tickets (UK/Ireland) here .

On top of this, Cave will also head out on a solo European tour in June , where he will be “performing songs from his extensive catalogue”. Cave will be accompanied on stage by  Radiohead  bassist Colin Greenwood. Tickets for those shows are available here .

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Whatever happened to Amy Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil?

Amy Winehouse ’s soulmate. The troubled ex-husband who inspired the singer’s Grammy Award -winning album Back to Black and divorced her to “set her free”. A “junkie” and “hopeless heroin addict” who admitted introducing her to the drug and remains — in the eyes of many fans — the individual responsible for her untimely death from alcohol poisoning at the age of just 27.

These are just some of the ways Blake Fielder-Civil has been described. Winehouse first met the tall, charming, tattooed production assistant in a pub in 2005, married him in a spontaneous wedding in Miami, and later they divorced after a tempestuous and often violent six-year on-off relationship. Now their relationship is central to a star-studded new biopic, Back To Black , directed by Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson , and starring Industry’s Marisa Abela, out in cinemas this Friday .

Former Bafta rising star Jack O’Connell , 32, who starred alongside Emma Corrin in Netflix’s recent adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, plays Fielder-Civil. He gave an interview ahead of the film’s release this week, saying he spent an afternoon with Fielder-Civil in preparation for the role and that “he was quite open. He spoke so highly of Amy. There was something so genuine in how he spoke, it was unquestionable to me that he loved her”.

O’Connell also said the singer’s dad, Mitch Winehouse, “wanted to deck [him]” during visits to the set, when he saw him dressed in Fielder’s trademark hat, chains, and rings.

Unlike previous on-screen depictions of Winehouse’s life, which her father Mitch says have cast him as “the villain”, the new film is being made with the blessing of Winehouse’s family — fuelling speculation that Fielder-Civil, 41, now known by the shortened surname Fielder, will be made the villain of this particular show.

“I don’t think I ruined her, no... I find it disrespectful to imply I was some Machiavellian puppet master,” the recovering drug addict and self-described actor Fielder said four years after Winehouse’s death, adding that he felt like he was “paying the price” for the years he spent with the singer.

Several years later, in 2018, he told Piers Morgan that he would “always carry a burden of guilt” for what happened to Winehouse, but that, “Amy didn’t do anything Amy didn’t want to do.

“I feel I am the only person that’s ever taken responsibility and has done since Amy was alive,” he said, in a nod to the singer’s father, Mitch Winehouse, who had previously accused Fielder of “killing” his daughter.

Fielder — now a father-of-two with his ex-wife Sarah Aspin and believed to be living in Leeds with a new partner and possibly fiancée, Bay Wright — has since claimed he wants to reconcile with Mitch and “genuinely plea for his forgiveness”. That reconciliation is not yet believed to have taken place, though Mitch’s ex-wife, Winehouse’s mother, Janis, 66 has since defended Fielder, saying their love was “complicated” but “intimate and genuine”.

Fielder was seen sporting a new teardrop tattoo — a nod to Winehouse — during a shopping trip in February, just a few months after telling Good Morning Britain that he would do “almost everything” different in his relationship with Winehouse if he could have the time again, but that he could no longer bear the sole “burden” for her death. “I’ve needed to stop carrying that cross on my own,” he said on what would have been her 40th birthday in September.

“I’ve carried that burden myself for over 10 years. I feel, to be honest, that I’m the only person within that story that’s ever held any accountability, that’s ever tried to say, ‘Yep, I made some huge mistakes.’”

So what became of Fielder, what’s his relationship with Winehouse’s family now — and what will he make of his villainous casting in Taylor-Johnson’s upcoming film?

From a Camden meet-cute to tabloid fodder

Certainly, Fielder’s absence from public life since Winehouse’s death stands in stark contrast to the period before it. For years, theirs had been a love story for the ages: a meeting of two artistic souls over a jukebox and pool table in a Camden bar in 2005, in a whirlwind romance that played out in the public eye and quickly turned into a tabloid staple.

Fielder, a part-time literature student who made a living handing out flyers for local nightclub Trash, was in another relationship at the time – but that ended within a month, and he and Winehouse quickly became inseparable. She had ‘Blake’ tattooed on her chest within a week of meeting. He got ‘Amy’ inked behind his ear. Six months in, he left her for his ex-girlfriend and Winehouse released Back to Black, the now-iconic breakup album largely credited for catapulting her to global megastar status.

Six months later, Winehouse and Fielder were back together, surprising their families with a shock engagement in April 2007. They eloped to Miami Beach in Florida a month later without their families, and Fielder is reportedly seen in wedding footage shouting: “Who’s paying for this? I’m broke!” – fuelling speculation he was after Winehouse’s money, which he has always denied.

Back at home, Winehouse reportedly tried crack cocaine and heroin for the first time — the moment loved ones say she noticeably changed. The relationship quickly became a destructive and turbulent one. Arrests, public spats, and rehab stints followed, one of which resulted in a now-notorious photo of the couple: him with scratches on his neck; her in smeared eye make-up and bloodied ballet pumps, which he has since said was after a row in which he self-harmed.

They claimed to love each other unhealthily; that they would have died for each other. “I feel love is somehow killing me,” Winehouse herself is heard saying in old footage.

In July 2008 the couple were separated as Fielder was sentenced to 27 months in jail for his part in an assault on a bar owner. He served 12 months.

They divorced in 2009, him claiming it was to “set her free” from the tabloids and silence her father Mitch, who had accused Fielder of being “manipulative”. Fielder went on to have a brief relationship and a son, Jack, with another woman, Sarah Aspin, whom he met in rehab, before continuing an on-off relationship with Winehouse in 2010. He and Winehouse had reportedly planned to remarry, but he ended up in jail for burglary and possession of a firearm in June 2011. Winehouse had started dating a film director called Reg Traviss and, by the time Fielder was released from prison, Winehouse was dead, found face-down on her bed by her live-in security guard after drinking massive amounts of vodka while watching YouTube videos of her own performances.

“I’m beyond inconsolable… my tears won’t dry,” he said on hearing of her death from behind bars, a month after he went in in 2011 (he’d already been to jail once, in 2008). He was banned from the funeral by her family, who blamed him for enabling Winehouse’s drug usage and introducing her to heroin despite her addictive character. He later got back together with Aspin and had another baby, a daughter called Lola, before they split up again.

“She always thought I’d end up with Amy,” he has said of Aspin. “When [Winehouse] passed away, I guess she didn’t plan on me still being in love with someone who is not there. It’s almost harder in a way.”

A cautionary tale, and 13 years in the shadows

The story has long since been heralded as a cautionary tale of the trappings of fame and drug addiction and Fielder, long blamed for Winehouse’s spiral into addiction, has remained largely in the shadows in the 13 years since. He is believed to be living in Leeds, after being released from the city’s prison in 2013, with many a media appearance over the past decade — some by choice; many more unlikely to be.

In 2015, he told an interviewer he was drug-free, had been attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings, and regretted introducing Winehouse to heroin. The candid interview was littered with many other bombshell claims: that he has since met a new girlfriend; that Winehouse had phoned him in jail and told him, “It’s always been you” before her death; that he had since been paid by a newspaper to be photographed visiting Winehouse’s grave for the first time — a decision he now says he regrets.

“I don’t think I ruined her, no. I think we found each other and certain people need to realise that she did have other addictions before she met me. She wasn’t a happy, well-adjusted young woman, you know, and I find it disrespectful to imply I was some Machiavellian puppet master,” he said at the time. “It sounds so ‘woe is me’, but in a way, I’ve sacrificed a lot for those years with Amy... I almost feel like I’m being punished... If Amy were around now, she would still have the same issues. It’s what made her who she was, what made her so funny, or brittle, or pithy, or warm – all those good and bad things about her. It was who she was.”

The following year, Fielder was reported to have been put on life-support after a drug and alcohol binge — the same year he made a brief appearance in Lily Allen’s music video track LDN, in which he is seen trying to sell the singer flowers. Months later, he publicly claimed Winehouse had “slashed herself” in a bid to take her own life just eight weeks before she died.

Three years after that, days after the eighth anniversary of her death in July 2019, he infuriated Winehouse’s family further by making a £1 million claim to her estate (he’d already received a payoff of £250,000 after their divorce), with his lawyer arguing that Fielder was with Winehouse for six years, during which time she released some of her best-selling material. The family said Fielder “deserves nothing”.

“This is someone who spent a lot of Amy’s money during their time together,” a source close to the family said at the time. “He also spent a lot of their marriage in prison, bringing nothing but pain to everyone. To give him another penny would be too much. To say that it would be inappropriate for him to benefit from her estate would be an understatement.”

Just weeks later, Fielder made what many saw as another attempted money-grab, trying to flog “unseen” images of Winehouse. In November that year, he was arrested on suspicion of arson after a fire broke out in his flat in a 16-floor towerblock in Leeds. He had reportedly invited his neighbours in to “come smoke on this crack pipe.”

“I hope they lock him up and he doesn’t come back,” a neighbour reportedly said after his arrest, others calling him “a problem tenant” in the block. However, Fielder was not charged.

In July 2021, Fielder popped up in the press again, this time in pictures showing him kissing his new girlfriend, Bay Wright, at a service station as they pumped up the tyres on their car. The pair were said to be living together in a two-bedroom flat in Leeds, with Wright confirming that she was in a “serious relationship” with Fielder and was “pretty protective of Blake”.

“The proposal seems to have come very fast,” a source told The Sun later that month, of the pair’s rumoured engagement. “And while Blake and Bay seem besotted with each other, they do come from very ­different worlds,” a source said. “Bay is lovely – very ­normal and down-to-earth. But ­suddenly she is ­rubbing shoulders with stars like Pete Doherty, who Blake is still pals with. They kept the romance quiet for a while. She was telling friends that she was dating a music producer. She is very happy, but those close to her hope they haven’t moved too fast.”

The couple has kept a low-profile since then, but Fielder was photographed smiling on a walk with a female friend in Notting Hill in June 2022. He was next seen publicly five months later, in November 2022, when he appeared at the inquest of his younger brother Freddy, 27, who died of a heroin overdose in a £40-a-night Leeds hotel after escaping from a mental health hospital.

His last public appearance came more than half a year ago, in September 2023, when he gave an interview on Good Morning Britain on what would have been Winehouse’s 40th birthday. “It's sad but I wanted to say happy birthday to Amy. It's devastating she's not here. I think about her all the time, I thought about her this morning when I said my happy birthday to her, she was my best friend. If it wasn't for certain factors I think it could have been a different outcome. Everything happened very quickly for Amy. We were young.”

Asked if he would have done anything differently in the relationship, he replied: “almost everything”. He was then spotted outside a Yorkshire supermarket in February with the new tattoo of a teardrop in a tribute to Winehouse, who drew one on her own face while he was in prison in 2008.

Depression, drugs and meeting Amy

So what do we know of Fielder’s upbringing? His parents, Lance Fielder and Georgette Civil, divorced before he could walk and his mother remarried a headmaster called Giles, who Fielder had a strained relationship with. He also had a difficult relationship with his two stepbrothers and became severely depressed, reportedly cutting his wrists from the age of nine.

He studied at Bourne Grammar School in Lincolnshire and started experimenting with drugs during his time there, dropping out of school at 17 and sleeping rough before getting a job in a pub and moving to London. He started hanging out at the club night Trash in Soho and taking cocaine, later working as a music video production assistant. Sometime before he met Winehouse, he was reportedly taking part-time literature and history of art courses at Birkbeck College in Bloomsbury.

Fielder met aspiring singer Winehouse four years later, in 2005, at a pub in Camden – and their relationship quickly became serious. Winehouse’s manager Nick Godwyn has since recalled an obvious shift he noticed in her. “Amy changed overnight after she met Blake,” he once said. “Her personality became more distant. And it seemed to me like that was down to the drugs. When I met her, she smoked weed but she thought the people who took class-A drugs were stupid. She used to laugh at them.”

Winehouse’s flat in Camden reportedly became a hub for musicians and drug-dealers after she met Fielder. Despite introducing her to heroin, he denied claims she had been on the drug for years. “In fact, me and Amy only used drugs together for maybe six months of our marriage, that was it. And, before that, Amy didn’t use drugs.”

For many years, at least, Fielder has appeared conflicted on the subject of his responsibility for the singer’s drug abuse. “Always, always but also I’m not ready to be the only person any more,” he said in 2015 when asked whether he feels responsible. “I feel I am the only person who has taken responsibility and has done since Amy was alive.”

Fielder’s mother, Georgette, has since taken part of the blame – for her son’s addiction, at least – on herself, saying she “wasn’t strong enough” to admit her son and daughter-in-law were addicts until it was too late. “He was her drugs mule,” she told The Sun in 2014. “I’ve finally seen him for what he really is — and it has broken my heart... I was in total denial that the son I loved was a hopeless heroin addict. I even watched him swallowing packets of drugs, wrapped in foil.”

In 2007, Fielder assaulted a pub landlord and was sentenced to 27 months in prison for the attack and for later perverting the course of justice by trying to bribe a witness not to turn up in court. While he was locked up, Winehouse reached the peak of both her fame and her addiction, selling millions of records and winning five Grammys, including best new artist, song of the year, and album of the year. She dedicated her awards to her parents – and famously to, “My Blake, incarcerated”. In April 2008, she was arrested for slapping a man who tried to hail her a cab and, the following month, she was caught smoking crack.

Winehouse spent time in St Lucia and in rehab and reportedly began to realise the toxicity of her marriage. Shortly after his release from jail, Fielder filed for divorce, citing adultery and that he found it “intolerable” to live with the singer. The divorce was granted in 2009, but Winehouse continued to struggle with alcohol addiction. In June 2011, her European tour was cancelled after a disastrous gig in which she threw her mic to the floor and walked off stage. A month later, she was found dead.

Tears, tattoos and the new biopic

Fielder reportedly dropped the second half of his surname, Civil, because of an estrangement from his stepfather — and indeed, his entire family. He refuses to talk to the press about his children to protect their privacy but interviewers who’ve met him over recent years say his tattoos tell a story all on their own: ‘Amy’ behind his ear in a nod to Winehouse, ‘Sarah’ on his back and his other arm in a nod to Aspin, and reportedly a ‘Chloe’ somewhere else on his body, plus the names of his two children, Jack and Lola. “Too fast to live, too young to die,” reads another, in a presumed nod to Winehouse.

Whether that quote is a nod to Winehouse’s early death is unclear, but Fielder’s most prominent tattoo is certainly unmistakable: an image of Winehouse, there on his forearm, holding a red balloon and crying.

O’Connell admits that Fielder “wasn’t overly keen” to meet him in preparation for the upcoming biopic, because “obviously it’s going into a phase of his life that is very personal and he harbours a mixed bag of emotions”. But he met him anyway, and was surprisingly open. “He spoke so highly of Amy. There was something so genuine in how he spoke, it was unquestionable to me that he loved her.”

O’Connell will naturally have taken that sense of genuine love into the filming with Abela. So what will Fielder make of their on-screen depiction of their relationship? A clue might lie in his comments on his previous on-screen portrayals. “I feel that maybe, since the last film about Amy came out about two years ago, the documentary [Amy], there’s been a certain sort of shift in the blame to other parties,” he said in 2018. “But I feel that before that, pre that — and probably still now — I’m the only person that’s taken any responsibility.”

This latest biopic probably won’t help that feeling. The question now is, whether he’ll choose to speak out.

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