Troubled soul singer Amy Winehouse delivers more of her straight up madness - and a lot of insight - in a new interview in Rolling Stone magazine to hit the news stand next week. It was actually an on-the-spot ambush interview, but it's revealing in that she had invited the reporter in for tea and banana sandwiches while leaving throngs of paparazzi wanting for her outside on the sidewalk in front of her house in the middle of the night.
The singer opens up about her jailed husband, her next record and her unraveling life...
Winehouse says all of her problems stem from being separated from her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who is her true love.
Blake's name appears in a little heart pin she often wears in her hair. "To be honest, my husband's away, I'm bored, I'm young," Winehouse tells the reporter. "I felt like there was nothing to live for. It's just been a low ebb.""I'm sorry, I'm a really shit interview," she says politely to writer Claire Hoffman, a totally unexpected reporter in her house at 4:00 in the morning. Hoffman reports on what she witnesses:
Winehouse is rarely alone. Her home is on a hushed cobblestone lane off the main drag of raucous Camden, but throughout the night, musicians, dealers, masseuses, friends and fans come and go freely.
Outside, a nearly ever-present herd of paparazzi — mostly men, mostly in their early 30s — stand around, smoking cigarettes and cracking jokes that revolve around the length of their zoom lenses. Winehouse is their meal ticket, and a fun one. The paps jokingly refer to her as "the pied piper of Camden" for her powers of enchantment. Winehouse treats them like animals in her care — she makes them tea and, on several occasions, smacks them if they get too close to her. And for all that, they love her, speak of her talent and way of life with reverence.
"She's on loads of crack, but you can see through that," says Simon Gross, a freelance photographer. "I just want for her to get better. I'm hoping someday for that set of pictures of her riding her bike in the park or something healthy."
Excellent reading. You can see the full article online at Rolling Stone.
