Ronson and Winehouse shared a publishing company, which encouraged a meeting between the two. Mark Ronson wrote the music for Back to Black‘s title track the night after he met Winehouse. I’ve been listening to ’60s bands and girl groups and it came out in the writing on Back to Black.” She cited the Velvelettes (mistaken for the Velvet Underground by the British tabloid) and the Shangri-Las as two of the groups who influenced her writing, adding, “There’s a lot of bands which are ’60s-influenced at the moment, but I guess I’m the only girl doing it.”Ģ. “These songs are more accessible than the tracks on Frank, as jazz is quite elitist. “I’m not a jazz girl any more,” Winehouse told the British paper The Sun in 2006. Winehouse turned to girl groups and other Sixties sounds to escape the jazz influences on her debut Frank.
Here are 10 compelling facts about the album and the frenzy that surrounded it.ġ. Back to Black, which features Winehouse’s whiskey-soaked voice and arrestingly precise lyrics over taut R&B inspired by the days of Stax and Motown, has only grown in stature, its portrait of love’s hardest moments still resonant a decade after its release and five years after Winehouse’s untimely death. Amy Winehouse‘s second – and final – album came out in the U.K.
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