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Amy Winehouse - A Song For You

This is bound to go down as the most controversial. Salaam was even moved to rubbish tabloid reports that Amy’s cracked voice suggests she was inebriated while recording - “she never was in my presence,” he said.

Instead, he remembered a day in 2009 when she’d just put a studio into her home. In a candid moment, she goes to a computer and starts spontaneously learning the tabs to this song by Donny Hathaway, famously her favourite artist.

She stars to cry as she learns the song, the intimate vocal flits in and out and cracks. It’s Amy at her most vulnerable yes, by the end she sounds almost broken, but rarely deeper into the song. And then the album ends with another spontaneous break, this time an enthusiastic one, with words that will resonate in hearts all over the world: “Donny Hathaway, he couldn’t contain himself. He had something in him, you know?”

(via NME)