Fifteen years ago, barely two months after the release of her career-defining second (and final) album Back to Black, she performed at the “Other Voices” music series in Dingle, County Kerry in Ireland. My abiding memory of Amy Winehouse is to remember something so lacking in tragedy, that it makes a mockery of what was to follow. Those same tabloids that were by turns fawning, disparaging and dismissive of her as she battled her own personal issues in that most public of forums, have picked over the bones of her life incessantly since her untimely demise, leaving it up to the saturated onlooker to find that moment, that memory, to remember her by. The late Amy Winehouse, who passed away at the age of 27 just over ten years ago in July 2011, had much more than her fair share of that press attention, as they created a whirlwind of sensationalism around her every perceived indiscretion, no matter how miniscule. A world where every tiny action is picked over, analyzed and splashed over the tabloid covers or webpages. So it also goes when we lose artists in this media driven world. Maybe there’s a particular moment indelibly carved in our consciousness or a solitary sparkle we remember them by. When we lose someone close to us, we choose to remember them in our own way. “All I can ever be to you, is a darkness that we knew. Happy 15th Anniversary to Amy Winehouse’s second and final studio album Back to Black, originally released October 27, 2006.
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