Amy Winehouse’s Label Boss Destroyed Her Third Album Demos

Amy, the forthcoming documentary about the life of Amy Winehouse, arrives in British theaters this week, with U.S. screenings coming later this summer. Ahead of its release, Billboard spoke to the singer’s friends and colleagues about her life, her cultural status in the U.S., and the events surrounding her death. One revelation concerns demos for the follow-up to Back to Black, for which Winehouse had written fourteen songs shortly before her death in 2011. According to David Joseph, Winehouse’s label boss at Universal U.K., demos for those tracks will never see the light of day, because he’s destroyed them.

“It was a moral thing,” Joseph said. “Taking a stem or a vocal is not ­something that would ever happen on my watch. It now can’t happen on anyone else’s.” That would likely make Winehouse’s 2011 outtakes collection, Lioness, her final release.

Read the full article at Billboard.

Here’s the trailer for Amy:

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