_Fucking hell_.When discussing Amy Winehouse, it's hard to talk _just_ about the music, but I'll try my darndest. The first time I saw Amy, on a TV show in 2005, she was covering Toots & the Maytal's _Monkey Man_. After her performance she walked straight into the audience and sat on the knee of her then-boyfriend, Alex Jones-Donnelly. I thought, nice song choice, shame about the submissivenes--(Okay, I've gone right off topic, there. I'll try again...)Little did I know then that she'd do far dodgier things with a chap than sit on his knee in publi--(Right, I really must try harder...)Her reggae cover of Cupid by Sam Cooke, by contrast, sounds blissfully innocent. A lovely, warm vocal performance, you can almost sense Amy smiling over the first few bars. (Good!)Indeed, it's nice to hear Amy sounding happy, what with her new hubbie Blake Fielder-Civil being sent to prison yesterday for perverting the course of justic--(I give up.)
_Oh, for fuck's sake_
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