“Rehab” by Amy Winehouse

"Rehab" was the first single from Amy Winehouse's second album, Back to Black, in 2006, and it's the rare confessional that swings like a party. Winehouse wrote it about her own refusal to check into a clinic over her drinking, and she sings it with a shrug and a smirk over a wall of vintage soul built by producer Mark Ronson: stomping drums from Homer Steinweiss, Nick Movshon's bass, stabbing horns and swelling strings.

It reached number 7 in the UK and number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, her only top-10 hit in the US, and it became the song people think of first when they think of her. At the 50th Grammys it won Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and it took the Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song too.

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