Izdavač: Ostalo
Žanr: Džez, Fank i Soul, Pop, R&B, Rok
Poreklo: Strani izvođač

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Standard edition cover[a]
Studio album by Amy Winehouse
Released 27 October 2006
Recorded 2005–2006
Studio
Instrument Zoo (Miami)[b]
Daptone (New York City)[c]
Allido (New York City)[d]
Chung King (New York City)[e]
Metropolis (London)[c]
Genre
Soulrhythm and bluescontemporary R&Bneo soulpop
Length 34:56
Label Island
Producer
Mark RonsonSalaam Remi
Amy Winehouse chronology
Frank
(2003) Back to Black
(2006) I Told You I Was Trouble: Live in London
(2007)

Back to Black is the second and final studio album by the English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, released on 27 October 2006 by Island Records. Winehouse predominantly based the album on her tumultuous relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, who temporarily left her to pursue an ex-girlfriend. Their brief separation spurred Winehouse to create an album that explores themes of guilt, grief, infidelity, heartbreak and trauma in a relationship.

Influenced by the pop and soul music of 1960s girl groups, Winehouse collaborated with producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson, along with Sharon Jones` band The Dap-Kings, to assist her on capturing the sounds from that period while blending them with contemporary R&B and neo-soul music. Between 2005 and 2006, she recorded the album`s songs with Remi at Instrumental Zoo Studios in Miami and then with Ronson and the Dap-Kings at Chung King Studios and Daptone Records in New York. Tom Elmhirst mixed the album at Metropolis Studios in London. The album was promoted with five singles: `Rehab`, `You Know I`m No Good`, `Back to Black`, `Tears Dry on Their Own` and `Love Is a Losing Game`.

Back to Black received widespread acclaim from music critics, who praised Winehouse`s songwriting, emotive singing style, and Remi and Ronson`s production. At the 2008 Grammy Awards, Back to Black won Best Pop Vocal Album and was also nominated for Album of the Year. At the same ceremony, Winehouse won four additional awards, tying her with five other artists as the second-most awarded female in a single ceremony. The album was also nominated at the 2007 Brit Awards for MasterCard British Album and was short-listed for the 2007 Mercury Prize, among other accolades.

With 20 million copies sold worldwide, Back to Black is one of the best-selling albums of all time and the UK`s second best-selling album of the 21st century. It established Winehouse as a cultural icon, and is noted for its key role in the widespread popularity of British soul throughout the late 2000s. Back to Black is often featured in publication listings of the greatest albums of all time, including Rolling Stone`s `500 Greatest Albums of All Time` and Apple Music`s `100 Best Albums`. In 2025, the album was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being `culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant`.

Background
After signing with Island Records in 2002,[1] Winehouse released her debut album, Frank, on 20 October 2003. She dedicated the album to her ex-boyfriend, Chris Taylor, as she gradually lost interest in him.[2][3] Produced mainly by Salaam Remi, many songs were influenced by jazz, and apart from two cover versions, every song was co-written by Winehouse. The album received positive reviews,[4][5] with compliments over the `cool, critical gaze` in its lyrics,[6] while her vocals drew comparisons to Sarah Vaughan,[7] Macy Gray and others.[6] The album reached number 13 on the UK Albums Chart at the time of its release, and has been certified triple Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).[8][9] In 2004, Winehouse was nominated for British Female Solo Artist and British Urban Act at the Brit Awards,[10] while Frank made the shortlist for the Mercury Prize.[11] That same year, the album`s first single, `Stronger Than Me`, earned Winehouse and Remi an Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song.[12] In a 2004 interview with The Observer, Winehouse expressed dissatisfaction with the album, stating that `some things on [the] album [made her] go to a little place that`s fucking bitter`. She further notes that the marketing was `fucked`, the promotion was `terrible`, and everything was `a shambles`.[13]

In 2005, Winehouse dated Blake Fielder-Civil, who was an assistant on music video sets. Around the same time, she rediscovered the 1960s music she loved as a girl, stating in a 2007 Rolling Stone interview: `When I fell in love with Blake, there was Sixties music around us a lot.`[14] In 2005, the couple spent a lot of time in a local Camden bar, and during their time there, Winehouse would listen to blues, `60s girl groups, and Motown artists, explaining that `it was [her] local` and `spent a lot of time there [...] playing pool and listening to jukebox music.`[14] The music heard in the bar appealed to Winehouse when she was writing songs for her second album.[14]

Around the same year, she went through a period of drinking, heavy drug use, and weight loss.[15] People who saw her during the end of that year and early 2006 reported a rebound that coincided with the writing of Back to Black.[15] Her family believes that the mid-2006 death of her grandmother, who was a stabilising influence, set her off into addiction.[15] Fielder-Civil then left Winehouse to revert to his previous girlfriend. During their break, she would write the bulk of the album on the state of her `relationship at the time with Blake [Fielder-Civil]` through themes of `grief, guilt, and heartache`.[14] Winehouse dated musician Alex Clare briefly in 2006,[16] and would later return to and marry Fielder-Civil in the following year.[3][17]
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Back to Black.[19]

Musicians
Amy Winehouse – vocals (all tracks); guitar (tracks 3, 4, 9, 11); background vocals (tracks 3, 7, 9, 11)
Nick Movshon – bass guitar (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10)
Homer Steinweiss – drums (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10)
Thomas Brenneck – guitar (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10)
Binky Griptite – guitar (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10)
Victor Axelrod – piano (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10); Wurlitzer, claps (tracks 1, 2)
Dave Guy – trumpet (tracks 1, 2, 10)
Neal Sugarman – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 2, 10, 11)
Ian Hendrickson-Smith – baritone saxophone (tracks 1, 2)
Mark Ronson – claps (track 1); band arrangements (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8); tambourine (track 5); snaps (track 10)
Vaughan Merrick – claps (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10)
Perry Montague-Mason – violin, orchestra leader (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Chris Tombling – violin (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Mark Berrow – violin (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Warren Zielinski – violin (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Liz Edwards – violin (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Boguslaw Kostecki – violin (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Peter Hanson – violin (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Jonathan Rees – violin (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Tom Pigott-Smith – violin (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Everton Nelson – violin (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Bruce White – viola (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Jon Thorne – viola (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Katie Wilkinson – viola (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Rachel Bolt – viola (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Anthony Pleeth – cello (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Joely Koos – cello (tracks 1, 5, 6)
John Heley – cello (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Helen Tunstall – harp (tracks 1, 6)
Steve Sidwell – trumpet (tracks 1, 6)
Richard Edwards – tenor trombone (tracks 1, 6)
Andy Mackintosh – alto saxophone (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Chris Davies – alto saxophone (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Jamie Talbot – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Mike Smith – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 6)
Dave Bishop – baritone saxophone (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Frank Ricotti – percussion (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Gabriel Roth – band arrangements (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8)
Chris Elliott – orchestra arrangements, orchestra conducting (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Isobel Griffiths – orchestra contractor (tracks 1, 5, 6)
Salaam Remi – upright bass (track 3); drums (tracks 3, 9, 11); piano (tracks 3, 7); bass (tracks 4, 7, 9, 11); guitar (tracks 7, 9)
Vincent Henry – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone (tracks 3, 7); guitar (tracks 3, 4, 7, 9, 11); clarinet (tracks 4, 7); bass clarinet (track 4); alto saxophone, flute, piano, celeste (track 7); saxophone (track 11)
Bruce Purse – bass trumpet, flugelhorn (tracks 3, 4, 7, 11); trumpet (tracks 4, 7, 11)
Troy Auxilly-Wilson – drums (tracks 4, 7, 11); tambourine (track 7)
John Adams – Rhodes (tracks 4, 11); organ (tracks 4, 9, 11)
P*Nut – original demo production (track 10)
Sam Koppelman – percussion (track 10)
Cochemea Gastelum – baritone saxophone (track 10)
Zalon – background vocals (track 10)
Ade – background vocals (track 10)
Technical
Mark Ronson – production (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10); recording (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8)
Tom Elmhirst – mixing (tracks 1, 2, 5–8, 10)
Matt Paul – mixing assistance (tracks 1, 2, 5–8, 10); recording (track 10)
Salaam Remi – production (tracks 3, 4, 7, 9, 11)
Franklin Socorro – recording (tracks 3, 4, 7, 9, 11)
Gleyder `Gee` Disla – recording assistance (tracks 3, 4, 7, 9, 11)
Shomari `Sho` Dillon – recording assistance (tracks 3, 4, 7, 9, 11)
Gary `G Major` Noble – mixing (tracks 3, 4, 9, 11)
James Wisner – mixing assistance (tracks 3, 4, 9, 11)
Dom Morley – recording engineering assistance (tracks 1, 5, 6, 10); recording (track 10)
Vaughan Merrick – recording (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10)
Jesse Gladstone – recording assistance (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8)
Mike Makowski – recording assistance (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8)
Gabriel Roth – recording (track 10)
Derek Pacuk – recording (track 10)
Stuart Hawkes – mastering[f]
Artwork
Mischa Richter – photography
Harry Benson – centre page photography
Alex Hutchinson – design