

Her battles with addiction and her difficult relationship certainly helped with her creativity, inspiring many of the lyrics in Back in Black. “You don’t want to be settled, because when you’re settled you might as well call it a day.” Read more: Amy Winehouse's 10 greatest songs ever, ranked

“If you’re a musician, and you have things you want to get out, you write music,” she told The Guardian in 2006. Their relationship was on-and- due to his infidelities and various periods in prison. It was Blake who introduced Amy to heroin and other hard drugs, and they got tattoos of each other's names. When I met her she smoked weed but she thought the people who took class-A drugs were stupid. "And it seemed to me like that was down to the drugs. Her personality became more distant.Īmy Winehouse and husband Blake Fielder-Civil in 2007. Her first manager Nick Godwyn told The Times in 2007 that “Amy changed overnight after she met Blake. Around this time, she met Blake Fielder-Civil, an addict who quickly became a chaotic focus of the singer.
