Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures

[Nick]

On sale for 4.99 on Amazon MP3.

[Ivy Leegue™]

In the end, I am really happy that Mark and Salaam got this out there, along with the blessing of Amy's parents because, ya know, in the end, we get another group of Amy songs. I had never heard or had any of these before now and, thanks to this body of work, I can add the songs to my collection of one of my favorite artists of the decade, by far. I like the original versions of the songs but not as much as the ones that made 'Black To Black' and the new songs sound great, as do the covers. I will probably even come around on 'A Song For You' at some point. I'm just afraid that, by the time I get to it, I will have dissolved into a puddle. I miss Amy more than ever, hearing this album. I don't know if that's the endgame those involved parties were going for but it's the way it is for me, I'm afraid. I don't know how often I can play this album or any of her other albums, after hearing this one. I'm just too torn up about what should have been with someone this talented. I know it happens all the time but she just spoke to me with her voice and phrasing and lyrics. It makes me want to take better care of myself, even though I don't have a 1/1000 of her talent. Just a fucking waste.

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It still depresses me to think about it all. It's rare that new artists come along that really get me to pay attention to them and fall in love with them the way I did with Amy (at least when she released Back to Black). I had written her off for dead by some point in 2008, but it's still really depressing to lose one of the few young artists that I really found to be an utterly brilliant artist and incredibly relatable artist (and her Motown, 60s girl group, and jazz influences made her exactly the kind of artist I love). It just feels like there is this void as far as young talent goes now.

I'm just tired and rambling but the unreleased material really got me thinking about her in this way for the first time since July.

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The album is projected to debut with 95-100k in the US, which could land it a Top 5 debut.

[Nick]

Late soul-singer Amy Winehouse has topped the UK album charts with her posthumous album, Lioness: Hidden Treasures.

The record is made up of 12 original tracks and covers and sold close to 200,000 copies in its first week.

Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson, long-time musical partners of Winehouse, spent hours listening through recordings in order to compile the album.

Proceeds from sales of the album will go to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, set up to support young people.

The first single from Lioness, called Our Day Will Come, entered the singles chart at 29.

Winehouse was found dead in her London flat on July 23 this year, after a sad and public deterioration from drug and alcohol abuse.

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On a more positive but poignant note, last week's top seller was Lioness: Hidden Treasures, the posthumous third album by Amy Winehouse. Debuting atop the chart on sales of 194,966, it makes the fourth biggest debut of the year, and is the second number one album for Winehouse, who spent three weeks at number one with her second album, Back To Black in 2007, a further week at number one in 2008 with the deluxe edition of that album, and three weeks at number one earlier this year when, following her death, sales of the two editions were combined for chart purposes.

Although it wasn't logged as such at the time, Back To Black had an even bigger sales week than Lioness, in Christmas week 2009, when the Deluxe Edition of the album was number nine on sales of 106,212, while the original was number 10 with sales of 103,587, making a total of 209,799. Back To Black was the UK's biggest selling album of the 21st century until it lost that title to Adele's 21 less than a fortnight ago. It jumps 79-70 on the current chart, with sales of 7,383, lifting its career tally to 3,395,312, but with 21 selling 83,847 copies as it falls 5-6, it increases its lead, with a 46 week score of 3,501,638 sales - this also including a half share of the Frank/Back To Black doublepack that sold 44 copies last week and more than 21,000 in total. Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, which reached a new chart peak (number three) following her death, climbs 163-153 this week, with the 2,194 copies it sold taking it closer to the million mark, at 981,147.

www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1047822&c=1

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AMY WINEHOUSE’S ‘LIONESS’ ROARS ONTO CHARTS

Amy Winehouse makes a triumphant return to the charts. The late singer’s posthumous album Lioness: Hidden Treasures debuts in the top 5 this week.

The collection of previously unreleased recordings from Winehouse enters at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with 114,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It also becomes her highest-debuting album ever. The soulstress’ breakthrough Back to Black initially debuted at No. 7, later peaking at No. 2 following her multiple Grammy wins.

www.rap-up.com/2011/12/14/amy-winehouses-lioness-roars-onto-charts

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

My review of the collection. I gave it a 4/5.

www.themaxonline.net/2011/12/20/music-review-lioness-hidden-treasures/

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Dec 6, 2011 12:26:53 GMT -5 @jazzysoul47 said:

Dec 6, 2011 12:24:27 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

Out today!

Target $9.99
Best Buy $9.99

Can a Mod change the title of this thread?

It's more effective in getting their attention if you use the "Report to Mod" button on one of the posts to ask them.

Yeah, that. Sorry I'm just now changing it, I just never even saw the request until this moment. If there's anything else you want me to add besides the album title, just let me know.

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Supposedly a double a side of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" and "Half Time" is being released in the UK on January 23.

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"Our Day Will Come" is Top 50 at Urban AC.

[SHOOTER]

This underwhelmed me overall but her rendition of A Song for You gives me chills.

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My favorite songs on the album in this order:

01 Like Smoke
01 Between The Cheats
01 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
01 A Song For You
05 Tears Dry
06 Valerie (68 Version)
06 Our Day Will Come
06 Wake Up Alone (Original Recording)

[Ivy Leegue™]

Love the production on A Song For You. Hate her delivery.

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The album has sold 355,150 thus far.

[Honeymoon]

I'd say Gold isn't out of the question?

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Radio rip of "Cherry Wine" from Nas' new album Life is Good. Love it.

[allow that]

So soulful. This song conveys what originally allured me to both artists.

[hidizzyguy]

Love it!

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I didn't even realize her label put out Live at BBC in November. It shows how little she actually recorded that the last thing they were able to scrap together were all her performances for the BBC.

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A documentary about the late Amy Winehouse is in the works from Universal Music and director Asif Kapadia. Focus Films plans to shop the as-yet-untitled movie at the Cannes Film Market, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Kapadia and producer James Gay-Rees said in a statement, "Amy was a once-in-a-generation talent who captured everyone's attention; she wrote and sung from the heart, and everyone fell under her spell. But tragically, Amy seemed to fall apart under the relentless media attention, her troubled relationships, her global success and precarious lifestyle. As a society we celebrated her huge success, but then we were quick to judge her failings when it suited us."

- FMQB

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Amy Winehouse's father says he discovered previously unheard track by singer

Not even her untimely death may keep Amy Winehouse off the charts.
The late crooner’s father revealed to London’s Daily Star that he stumbled on an previously unknown track recorded by his daughter before her death in July 2011.

Mitch Winehouse was in the midst of recording his own charity album when “the guy engineering it pressed the button on some old tapes in the studio and there was Amy singing this great song nobody had heard before,” he told the newspaper during a London art show in honor of what would have been Amy’s 30th birthday.
He did not indicate whether or not the track would eventually be released.

One album’s worth of previously unreleased Amy Winehouse songs, “Lionness: Hidden Treasures,” was released several months after the 27-year-old diva was found dead in her London apartment.

In life, Amy Winehouse had become famous as much for her battles with drug and alcohol as her soulful voice and meteoric music career, but her brother recently blamed a long-standing eating disorder for her demise.

"She would have died eventually, the way she was going, but what really killed her was the bulimia," Alex Winehouse told UK’s The Observer in June. "Had she not have had an eating disorder, she would have been physically stronger."

www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/amy-winehouse-dad-found-previously-unheard-track-article-1.1453866#ixzz2ek8UUJZX

[MyLastView]

I hope we get to hear it. She was a genius.

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Amy Winehouse statue unveiled in London

Hundreds of fans gathered in Camden, north London, on Sunday for the unveiling of a statue in memory of singer Amy Winehouse.

The bronze sculpture, which sports Winehouse's signature beehive hairstyle, a star of David necklace and a live red rose in her hair, was placed in the heart of the Stables Market as a memorial to the singer, who died three years ago of alcohol poisoning aged 27.

Fans travelled from mainland Europe and even Hawaii to get a first glimpse of the memorial on Sunday morning, which sculptor Scott Eaton said he hoped was "reflective and contemplative", breaking into loud applause as the black screen obscuring the statue was taken down and the grey blanket pulled away to reveal the statue posed with one hand on her hip.

Actor Barbara Windsor, who was a friend of Winehouse's and remains a patron of the foundation set up in the singer's name, said it was a great honour to unveil the statue on a day that would also have been the Back to Black singer's 31st birthday.

"I've been in this business for 66 years now and I've had many honours throughout my career, but this is the greatest honour," said Windsor. "I was one of the fortunate people who got to know Amy in the last few years of her too short life. Not only was she one of the greatest talents that this country has ever produced, she was a warm, lovely kind and fun lady. She was what we call in our business a superb bird, that's what she was. Amy loved Camden with a passion and Camden loved her so it's only right her presence should remain here."

As the statue was revealed to the crowds, Winehouse's father Mitch, who was a driving force behind getting the statue erected in the north London borough and was fully involved in the design, planted a kiss on the cheek of the statue.

He said: "It's a day of incredibly mixed emotions. They don't put statues up for people who are with us anymore so it reinforces the fact that physically she's gone but spiritually she'll never leave us. I feel sad, very, very sad. We shouldn't be here but we are, this is the reality and we've just got to make the most of it. So this statue is part of making the most of it. Getting people to come here, spend some time with Amy and put a flower in her hair and remember her in a very positive way. That for me is wonderful."

He added: "I'll be coming to visit it all the time. It was difficult to see the sculpture at first but I'm getting used to it. It looks just beautiful."

Winehouse's mother Janis was also at the unveiling, though she said she had not been involved with the project at all.

"It's just a wow, a definite wow," she said. "I am pleased with how the statue turned out because you can see that it's Amy. It is soon but it was beyond our control – events overtook events but we're very proud of it. Camden is Amy's place, it's where she belongs."

Fan Marcello Forelli, 59, had travelled from Venice to attend the unveiling. Sporting an Amy Winehouse T-shirt and showing off a colour portrait of the singer tattooed on his chest, he said: "I wanted to come here to see Amy. She was the best singer in the world so this is a sad day."

www.theguardian.com/music/2014/sep/14/amy-winehouse-statue-unveiled-camden-london

[Live Your Life]

Amy Winehouse Fears Fame in First 'Amy' Documentary Trailer

This July, the life and career of Amy Winehouse will be the focus of a new documentary titled Amy. The film incorporates previously unheard recordings and unseen archival footage, and in the first teaser trailer, we see Winehouse's rise from a young girl to a budding star to a global sensation using footage from the singer's personal home movies.

"Singing has always been important to me, but I never thought I'd end up singing or be a singer. I just thought I'm lucky that it's something I can always do if I want to," Winehouse says. The documentary uses Winehouse's own words to tell her story, and in the trailer, the singer paints herself as a reluctant star anxious about her own fame before she released her Grammy-winning breakout album Back to Black in 2006.

"I'm not a girl trying to be a star or trying to be anything besides a musician," Winehouse says through archival footage. "I don't think I'm gonna be at all famous. I don't think I could handle it. I'd probably go mad." At teaser's end, all the home movies of Winehouse form a mosaic of the "Rehab" singer as she admits to an interviewer that she's unable to trust anyone.

Amy, directed by Senna filmmaker Asif Kapadia and produced by Exit Through the Gift Shop's James Gay-Rees, is set to premiere in the U.K. on July 3rd, nearly four years after Winehouse died of accidental alcohol poisoning at the age of 27. Deadline reports that A24 has acquired Amy's U.S. distribution rights.

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The ending is definitely eerie and sad.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

I can't wait to see this but I still wish it didn't have to exist as it does.

[Live Your Life]

FADE TO BLACK

I can no longer listen to Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" without inducing chills. To a casual listener in 2006, the opening track of her Grammy-winning Back to Black, could be parroted with levity and echoed through a car stereo on a summer day. The weight of her suffering was easily swept under the rug. But the irony of a multi-platinum, career-defining hit being a cry for help is nothing short of tragic.

After seeing the already critically acclaimed documentary, Amy, the well-known lyrics, "I ain't got the time, and if my daddy thinks I'm fine... he's tried to make me go to rehab, but I won't go, go, go. I'd rather be at home with Ray," are suddenly magnified in stunning and frightening clarity.

As depicted, the year before the song's release, manager, dear friend to Amy and colleague of Simon Fuller, Nick Shymanksy had begun to realize the severity of Amy's substance abuse, although it was just the tip of the iceberg. Essentially kidnapping her, he begs her to enter rehab, and she decides to comply as long as father, Mitch Winehouse, agrees that it's necessary. After driving 50 miles, Mitch responds with a deafening "absolutely not."

The warmly sung, "Ray," now has a face, which belongs to Raye Cosbert, her promoter-turned-manager. Suddenly, clarity has changed everything. The song is not a hit record; it's not even song. It's a letter from a loved one, a diary entry during a dark time, a poem from a broken heart.

To hear someone cry, "I don't ever want to drink again. I just need a friend," before watching her die from lethal levels of alcohol toxicity is hard to digest. Having light shed on the darkness that filled the end of Amy's short life is deserved and painfully beautiful.

There's a truly intimate quality to the film that many music documentaries lack. Perhaps it's just because not all musicians had the undeniable sparkle and heart that lived within this effervescent girl who was not suicidal, careless or ready to die as many tabloids suggested at the time. This film forces you to watch the light leave these once-playful eyes, thanks to stardom and pressure that the jazz songstress could never handle. And you're forced to see tastemakers and influential media personalities make light and laughter out of the situation while the world scrambled for a piece of something too fragile to be shared.

From her beginnings as a 16-year-old nonconformist with a big voice and even bigger heart to the buzz of Frank and the explosiveness of Back to Black, tied in with her familial struggles, heartache and search for self-understanding, Amy irrefutably takes its viewers on a whirlwind journey.

Last night, friends of Amy, lovers of her music and lovers of music in general, gathered at the Arclight Hollywood for the film's premiere, hosted by UMG honcho Lucian Grainge, who Amy endearingly referred to as "Uncle Lucian."

Before giving a special shout-out to Chairman/CEO of Universal U.K. David Joseph, who originally came to him with the idea of creating this project with filmmakers Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees, he shared, “You’re going to see an extraordinary film. Amy really was quite unique. She meant so much to so many people. Some of them are in the room. She has shown that she was really, truly, genuinely one of the great artists of all time. What I love about this film so much is that it shows a different side to her that the press and people who didn’t know her but who loved her music might not have seen. Not only her songwriting and her song, her performance, her voice, but her intelligence, her humor, her vulnerability and obviously her humanity. I, for one, think about Amy a lot. And if you knew her, she had this incredible ability to really touch you. And I, for one, miss her very much."

In the film, many members of the music world shared their part in Amy's story, including former Sony Music U.K. boss Nick Gatfield, producer and collaborator Salaam Remi, Pete Doherty, Lucian Grainge, Raye Cosbert, producer and collaborator Mark Ronson, Island U.K.'s Darcus Beese, Republic's Monte Lipman, idol and collaborator Tony Bennett, producer and collaborator Questlove and Mos Def.

Last night's event told the side of her story that needed to be understood. Seen remembering her life and celebrating timeless music were an array of artists an execs including, Grainge, David Joseph, Darcus Beese, Monte Lipman, Nick Shymansky, Scooter Braun, Rick Rubin, Blue Note President Don Was, UMe chief Bruce Resnikoff, Capitol CEO Steve Barnett, Def Jam CEO Steve Bartels, Verve Chairman David Foster, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, Aimee Osbourne, The Weeknd, Nick Jonas, HAIM, Alesso, Diane Warren, and more.

Amy opens in N.Y. and L.A. 7/3, and nationwide 7/10.

[Live Your Life]

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

The film isn't playing here right now and I'm saddened. :(