“Back to Black” by Amy Winehouse

"Back to Black" is the title track of Amy Winehouse's 2006 album, her second and last, and it later went out as the album's third single on Island. She wrote it with Mark Ronson, who produced it, and it came out of her relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, who had walked out on her for an ex. The song sounds like a funeral in a vintage girl-group dress: Homer Steinweiss's drums pound slow and heavy, Nick Movshon's bass and Victor Axelrod's piano move like mourners, and strings and saxophones swell behind her, with Gabriel Roth arranging.

Critics singled out her writing and her voice, and it became one of her signature songs. The documentary Amy (2015) includes footage of her recording it with Ronson in March 2006.

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