For her feature with BLAG Amy Winehouse wanted to get a manicure. We’ve arranged to meet at Selfridges, crammed up in a bright pink podium style nail bar, the interview commences. Here she talks about working with super producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson on her latest album, ‘Back To Black.’

 

“It really was cool. The thing with Salaam is, we had our songs and then I’d go to New York. And when I came back to Salaam with the stuff that me and Mark had done,...I mean, the way me and Mark worked was like...musically we just fell in love on the spot. Completely, it was love at first sight! It was really cool, I’d play him something and he’d be really inspired. I’d play him one song and he’d be like (animated). ‘OK, go back to the hotel, come back tomorrow! I’m going to do my homework tonight.’ And he would. And then he’d play something that next day that was just beyond anything. I was just like, this man’s absolutely amazing. Then when I went back to Salaam having met up with Mark, Salaam was like, ‘What, pssh! I’m better than him!’ It was like, he was really like, ‘Ah, I know, we can pull it out!’ and that really gave him a lot. ‘Cause me and Salaam were at a point where we had worked together before, we had our little formula, we weren’t thinking about doing much new stuff, he was like, ‘Yeah, I see where he’s going, yeah!’ A nice bit of healthy competition” She laughs.