Winehouse’s outlet, originally, was music. “It promotes the wrong things a lot,” he admits, “but it has given people a voice.“Īmy Winehouse performing at the Rock in Rio music festival in Madrid in 2008. Moriarty echoes Chakrabarti’s view that social media can actually be positive, offering fan support and a place to share difficult subjects. Thankfully, bodies such as Music Industry Therapists and Coaches are tackling these issues, and today, artists have more immediate outlets to express themselves. " Help Musicians UK conducted a survey of 700 musicians: nine out of 10 said their mental health has deteriorated.” “It’s higher in musician populations, too," Embleton says. And Covid-19 is compounding those complaints. “If someone like Amy was suffering and needed financial assistance for therapy, we currently don’t have a way to help them,” she admits. Labels “are getting involved”, but making mental health a priority remains difficult. Today that trip would surely be cancelled, and support for musicians’ welfare is improving, says Embleton.
Winehouse’s final days included a breakdown caused by imminent shows. Tours are often tipping points, even before they begin. “The older I get, the younger 27 seems.”įrom 'Amy' to Diego Maradona: How Asif Kapadia became the world’s greatest documentary maker This summer, journalist and broadcaster Suchandrika Chakrabarti debuted her live show I Miss Amy Winehouse, a comedic but cathartic look at how the singer soundtracked her life. Music has changed since 2011, and so has the media landscape. Streamed live from Nashville, Tennessee, the event will include live performances and an exhibition, while Moriarty's images will also be transformed into wearable non-fungible tokens.
On Friday those pictures will reappear at the event Back to Amy, raising funds for the Amy Winehouse Foundation and the charity MusiCares. “The film broke my heart and I wanted people to see the person,” he says. Watching Kapadia’s documentary inspired Moriarty to belatedly publish his Winehouse shots as an acclaimed book, Before Frank, in 2016. There's a lot of different levels, to how she ended up how she did.” I don't know how long she'd suffered with her eating disorder. Talking about his early photos of the singer, Moriarty says: “Amy looks probably healthier, but she was not particularly well then. Tributes to Winehouse, placed near her house in north London on the day after her death. “I think she was in a constant battle with herself. “You can point fingers to people, but – as much as that is the case – unfortunately, Amy was an addict,” says Moriarty. The lyrics quoted are from the song What Is It About Men, which laments her parents’ separation, apparently an early catalyst for her destructive behaviour. Perhaps that path was already in place, though. Then Asif Kapadia’s remarkable 2015 documentary, Amy, pointed to callous management and family interference. Winehouse’s hedonistic ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, was the initial tabloid villain. That famous look was a personal choice (“it represented the sound she was creating”), but the narrative has shifted about why things went bad. I did ask, ‘Why were the other photos not working?’ And she was like, ‘They're not me.’” “In New York, Amy did this whole hair-up thing, the beehive, which was the first time she'd done it for photos. They shot in London, then New York, and had fun, “as that pressure wasn’t there, yet”.īut the ambition was already apparent. “He said: ’She hates everything that's been done by the record label,’” Moriarty recalls. Island RecordĪ mutual acquaintance brought them together. Irish photographer Charles Moriarty took the photograph that adorns Amy Winehouse's debut album, 'Frank'. He took the photograph that adorns her debut album, Frank, and the two burgeoning talents became firm friends. Irish photographer Charles Moriarty remembers Winehouse, pre-fame. Her striking image and traumatic story now tend to overshadow the prodigious young talent.
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On Friday, the 10th anniversary of Winehouse’s death will be marked worldwide, with celebratory shows, plus the requisite revelatory documentaries. That was long before the album Back to Black brought global fame, before the backstage dramas and the painfully premature end. “Now my destructive side has grown a mile wide,” Amy Winehouse sang in 2003.
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