Sam Taylor-Johnson on taking on Amy Winehouse's legacy in Back To Black

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Director Sam Taylor-Johnson attends the 'Back to Black' Special Event at The West Hollywood EDITION on April 28, 2024 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Gonzalo Marroquin/Getty Images for Focus Features)

Director Sam Taylor-Johnson attends the "Back to Black" Special Event at The West Hollywood EDITION on April 28, 2024 in West Hollywood, California. Amy Winehouse's "Tears Dry On Their Own" has been something of an earworm for director Sam Taylor-Johnson over the last couple of years. It's a banging tune of course, infectious for its musicality, but for Taylor-Johnson, it's the song that led her to the famed singer's spirit and soul.

Winehouse was only 27 years of age when she passed away from alcohol poisoning, but with the success of her debut record,, she ushered in a mini-wave of female British blue-eyed soul singers like Duffy, Joss Stone, and Adele. Outside of her musical legacy, Winehouse's short life was marred by intense tabloid intrusion as her substance abuse issues, troubled relationships, and fluctuating weight became front-cover news around the world.

In many ways, the roads Taylor-Johnson has travelled thus far as a filmmaker seem to all lead comfortably to her directing a film about a singer with a legacy like Winehouse's and a sensationalized personal life to boot. In her 2009 directorial debut,she took on the challenge of depicting the early years of John Lennon, one of the most prolific British musicians in history .

 

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