Amy Winehouse: Back To Black (3LP, 20th anniversary deluxe edition, clear vinyl) [ISLAND]

Why you'll love it

Three LPs of clear vinyl: the original album, a disc of rare B-sides and demos (four of them never heard before), and her February 2007 concert at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, on vinyl for the first time. New liner notes come from Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, the two producers who made the album with her.

This edition

• 3LP set on clear vinyl
• 20th anniversary deluxe edition
• Live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, February 8, 2007
• New alternate cover with Amy's handwritten lyrics and unseen photos by Mischa Richter and Alex Lake
• Liner notes by Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi

About the album

Back to Black arrived in October 2006 and sounded like nothing else on the radio: girl-group drums and Motown horns from Mark Ronson and the Dap-Kings, darker soul grooves from Salaam Remi, and over all of it a voice that could swing from wisecrack to heartbreak in a single line. 'Rehab', 'You Know I'm No Good', 'Tears Dry on Their Own' and the title track all came from it, and it went on to win five Grammys for her in one night.

This set fills in the picture around it. The second LP gathers 'Valerie' from the Radio 1 Live Lounge, B-sides like 'Monkey Man' and 'Hey Little Rich Girl', and early demos that show songs such as 'Back to Black' and 'Love Is a Losing Game' taking shape. The third is the Paradiso show, recorded in February 2007, with the band in full flight and Amy covering the Zutons and Lauryn Hill along the way.

Twenty years on, it's still the album people reach for when they want to hear what a voice can do, and this is the most complete way to own it yet. Pour something nice and let side A play.

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Out October 23, 2026 on Island (cat# 5769010), a reissue of the 2006 album.