BACK TO
BLACK
AMY
WINEHOUSE
SONGWRITERS:
AMY WHINEHOUSE & MARK DANIEL RONSON
COUNTRY:
U. K.
ALBUM: AMY WHINEHOUSE
LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 2006
Back to Black is the second and final studio
album by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse,
released on 27 October 2006 by Island Records.
Winehouse
predominantly based the album on her tumultuous relationship with
then-ex-boyfriend and future husband Blake Fielder-Civil, who temporarily left
her to pursue his previous ex-girlfriend. Their short-lived separation spurred
her to create an album that explores themes of guilt, grief, infidelity and
heartbreak in a relationship.
Influenced by the pop and soul music of 1960s girl groups,
Winehouse collaborated with producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson, along
with Sharon Jones' band The Dap-Kings, to
assist her on capturing the sounds from that time period while blending them
with contemporary R&B and neo-soul music.
Between 2005 and 2006, she recorded the album's songs with Remi at Instrumental
Zoo Studios in Miami and then with Ronson and the Dap-Kings at Chung King Studios and Daptone Records in New York. Tom Elmhirst mixed the album at Metropolis Studios in London.
Back to Black was acclaimed by music critics,
who praised Winehouse's songwriting and emotive singing style as well as Remi
and Ronson's production. The album spawned five singles: "Rehab",
"You Know I'm
No Good", "Back to Black",
"Tears Dry on
Their Own" and "Love Is a
Losing Game". It has also been cited as
being a key influence to the widespread popularity of British soul throughout
the late 2000s, paving the musical landscape for artists such as Adele, Duffy, and Estelle.
At the 2008 Grammy
Awards, Back to Black won Best Pop Vocal Album and was also nominated for Album of the
Year. At the same ceremony, Winehouse won four
additional awards, tying her with five other artists as the second-most awarded
female in a single ceremony. The album was also nominated at the 2007 Brit Awards for MasterCard British
Album and was shortlisted for the 2007 Mercury Prize. Back to
Black sold 3.58 million copies in the UK alone, becoming the UK's second best-selling album of the 21st century so far. The album has sold over 16 million copies worldwide.
A deluxe edition of Back to Black was
released in November 2007, containing a bonus disc of B-sides and live
tracks. Winehouse's debut DVD I Told You I Was Trouble: Live in London,
released that same month, includes a live set recorded at Shepherd's
Bush Empire in London and a 50-minute
documentary detailing the singer's career over the previous four years. In
2020, Back to Black was ranked at number 33 on Rolling Stone's list of the
"500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
He left no time to
regret
Kept his dick wet
With his same old safe bet
Me and my head high
And my tears dry
Get on without my guy
You went back to what
you knew
So far removed
From all that we went through
And I tread a troubled track
My odds are stacked
I'll go back to black
We only said goodbye
with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to
I go back to us
I love you much
It's not enough
You love blow and I love puff
And life is like a pipe
And I'm a tiny penny
Rolling up the walls inside
We only said goodbye
with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to
We only said goodbye
with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to
Black, black
Black, black
Black, black
Black
I go back to
I go back to
We only said goodbye
with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to
We only said goodbye
with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to black.
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