Amy winehouse: "When I was younger, I didn't really listen to a lot of soul. But in the last year I got really into Motown girl groups. I liked Otis Redding from 14 or 15, but I listened to hip-hop and jazz for so many years. It goes jazz, soul, Motown, then hip-hop. Obviously, I've gone in the middle."
Amy’s final recording was, sadly, and yet fittingly, at London’s famous Abbey Road Studios with jazz legend, Tony Bennett. In Amy, we witness her endearing and yet outrageous modesty as she tells Bennett she fears she is wasting his time, and doesn’t deserve to be collaborating with such an icon. The pair’s unbelievable rendition of Body and Soul (recorded in studio three) is deservedly among Abbey Road Studio’s best works, and we’re talking about a legendary recording studio where the likes of the Beatles produced some of their best work. Singer Bennett later said of Winehouse: “She was the only singer that really sang what I call the ‘right way’, because she was a great jazz-pop singer.”
