NME releases tribute edition to Amy Winehouse
Music magazine NME will today published a tribute issue for Amy Winehouse, following the singer’s death at the weekend.
The issue will feature previously unseen pictures from the magazine’s archive, as well as the first ever interview by NME with Winehouse ahead of the release of ‘Rehab’.
Friends and famous fans also pay their respects, including Russell Brand, Mick Jones from The Clash, Courtney Love and Guy Garvey from Elbow.
Krissi Murison, editor of NME, said: “To paraphrase just one of the many musicians we spoke to while putting this tribute issue together: in a notoriously bitchy business like the music industry, we’ve never met anyone with anything except total respect for Amy Winehouse. That alone tells you just how special Amy was and how in awe of her all her peers were - even when she couldn’t see it herself. This issue is a celebration of all the things we should be remembering about Amy right now: the voice, the songs, the soul, the gale-force personality, the lyrics that made you wince with their raw emotion and the lyrics that made you blush with their honesty. She was the most talented British singer in a generation and one of its greatest icons. We miss her dearly.”
The tribute issue goes on sale today.