Amy Winehouse would have turned 40 today. One of the recurring images in Amy’s songs is the sun.. Guitar arpeggios Waking up alone, together with your voice, draw the beauty of the entertainment of everyday life that lasts until sunset. Twilight always coincides with the end of a relationship and is a nice contrast to the Motown vibe. Tears dry on their own. Both songs are part Back to blackan album that, despite the title and the half-lit cover of Amy, reveals an obsessive search for light.
They said turning 40 is a truly important birthday. His short career, his self-destructive instincts and obsessive perfectionism when it came to music often drew comparisons to Kurt Cobain. And two more albums with Nirvana, also at Club 27. Both are often associated with their shadows rather than with a spasmodic tension in relation to the light.
Instead, the songs that Amy Winehouse left us have a dazzling brightness, a heavy and seeming lightness. rehabilitationto the point of sharpness Love is a losing game. The light is so strong that it inspires other artists. Here’s another point of contact with the Nirvana frontman: for example, the Red Hot Chili Peppers dedicated a wonderful (and very dismissive) song to him. lachrymatory.
To celebrate Amy Winehouse’s 40th birthday, we decided to find five songs dedicated to her from 2011 to the present day..
Amy Winehouse, her (sadly) missed 40th birthday, songs for her
Pete Doherty – Flags of the old regime
“Stand there in front of the whole world / And you don’t hear these songs anymore.” Two verses that hit the mark and which, in combination with guitar and strings, will not leave you indifferent. Pete Doherty, a close friend of Amy Winehouse, wrote this song in 2011.a few days after the singer’s death. The song was only released in 2015, with profits donated to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, which helps young drug addicts..
Patti Smith – it’s a girl
In his eleventh album Banga (2013) Patti Smith dedicates an elegy with almost religious tones to the English singer. The text was written a few days after the death of Amy Winehouse.and the music is the result of the intuition of Tony Shanahan, Smith’s bassist.
Green Day – Amy
Billie Joe Armstrong sings “Amy, don’t go” in a chorus that sounds more like a solo song than a Green Day song.. He is actually accompanied only by his guitar and reverb, which demonstrates the impossibility of filling the void left by the English artist. The song was first performed at a secret show in California a few months after Amy Winehouse’s death, and was later included on the album. ¡Dos!.
Madness – Blackbird
London’s Soho and rain are the backdrop for the track included on their 2016 album. Can’t touch us now. The members of the English band often met Amy Winehouse in Camden and for this reason decided to dedicate one of their songs to her after her death..
Metallica – Moth on Fire
The central theme of the song is celebrity and its side effects. Fame is something you obsessively seek only to realize one day that it is impossible to escape. James Hetfield said the inspiration for the song came to him while watching a documentary. Amy 2015. At the 59th Grammy Awards in 2017, the group performed the song in a surprise duet with Lady Gaga.