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Article: Lady, be good MUSIC AMY WINEHOUSE IS ABOUT TO START HER UK TOUR. SHE'S TROUBLE, BUT WORTH IT, SAYS BEN THOMPSON
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- November 11, 2007
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After all the tabloid horror stories of recent months, the Amy
Winehouse who appears in the 50-minute documentary (slyly titled I
Told You I Was Trouble) that accompanies her new live DVD seems like
an appealingly no-nonsense sort of individual. Brief snippets of
live singing - including a nerve-shredding early performance for a
ravening pack of executives in a corporate boardroom - are
interspersed with fairly uninformative interviews with Amy's dad
Mitch (in his taxi), her A&R man, and a series of star-struck
Americans. The film's one genuinely telling moment finds Winehouse
messing about in a record shop, shooting a segment for a TV pop
show.
She picks up a vinyl copy of a Ronettes ...