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AMY WINEHOUSE: ONE SHINING NIGHT
March 14, 2014  | By David Bianculli

Smithsonian, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

When Amy Winehouse released her Back to Black album in October 2006, she ended up winning five Grammys, including Record of the Year. But before that, just after the album was released, Winehouse went to Dingle, a small village in southwest Ireland, and performed with just a guitar and bass player for accompaniment, as a TV crew recorded the event. Performed in an old church, in front of a small audience, it’s an intimate concert interspersed with a vintage interview of her discussing her musical influences – who, as a bonus, are shown in short retrospective performance clips of their own. She died in 2011, of alcohol poisoning, at age 27, but this concert is an account of her on the rise, in her prime, and seemingly very happy.

 
 
 
 
 
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