I hate this idea. Hate it.

The stage was a rare space where audiences were forced to confront Amy Winehouse unedited and in the throes of addiction. Her descent couldn’t be hidden under the harsh glare of the spotlights. When she slurred her way through a disastrous 2008 Glastonbury set which ended with her punching a fan, it was captured on cameras. It showed the full extent of the trouble she was in – trouble made light of by many and actively exacerbated by the hounding she received from certain circles of the press.

When Winehouse was pushed on stage for her very last show in Belgrade – part of a 2011 tour that Kapadia’s documentary made clear she did not want or feel able to do – she was out of her mind on the alcohol she had apparently drunk in the hope someone would call off the performance. Shaky smartphone footage, beamed around the world, showed Winehouse unable to remember the words to her hit songs and trying repeatedly to leave the stage before being forced to return. Incredibly distressing to watch, the clips were a strong rebuttal to the statement released when, barely a month earlier, Winehouse was checked out from The Priory after just seven days. Why? So that she could complete her tour commitments.

“[Amy Winehouse] is looking forward to playing shows around Europe this summer,” said her representative at the time. “[She] is raring to go.”

Less than a month later, Winehouse was dead.

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