Amy Winehouse Fights Depression Through Music in M | Indiewire

In a new clip from the upcoming documentary chronicling the life of Amy Winehouse, simply called AMY, the singer talks about the role that music played in her life, especially in her emotional state of being.

He has since come out to defend himself saying “I don’t think I ruined her”, in an interview with The Times magazine. “There’s a lot of people that suffer depression that do not have an outlet, can’t pick up a guitar for an hour and feel better”.

Winehouse’s father, Mitch, had also spoken against the film, telling The Sun: “I felt sick when I watched it for the first time”.

“I think we found each other and certain people need to realise that she did have other addictions before she met me”.

Director Asif Kapadia was unable to attend the screening, but sent over a short piece of video footage hoping that everyone would appreciate the film.

A clip from new Amy Winehouse biopic “Amy: The Girl Behind The Name” has been unveiled online. Featuring extensive unseen archive footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving and vital film shines a light on the world we live in, in a way that very few can.

To the film’s credit, it handles Winehouse’s story with care, and frequently illustrates the handsome and complicated contradictions that made the singer who she was.

“We put them [the lyrics] up on screen so people will pay attention to the lyrics”. But the multiple Grammy-award-winning break-up album sounds less successful and more heart wrenching when we pay witness to an inside look at her personal life with Civil, and her deep and desperate desire to be loved by him. But Amy, under advice from Mitch, decided she did not need it (something she wrote about in the song Rehab), and an early chance for the singer to get help was lost. Through the tabloids, her life became a joke, and she was a sensitive soul.

In 2011 Amy Winehouse joined the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain in the ‘27 Club’ – that is, the term used to refer to a number of prolific and immensely talented, but often troubled, musicians who died at the age of 27.

“AMY” goes on release in the UK, Ireland and the United States on July 3.