A SERIES of unseen Amy Winehouse song lyrics have been discovered in a notebook the star had been working in before her death – ten years ago today.
The music icon’s goddaughter Dionne Bromfield revealed the unearthed book even includes a track written about the rising star, who was just 15 when Amy passed away.
However, it is unlikely they will ever be turned into full songs as the superstar hadn’t recorded the tracks and did not include notes on the melodies to accompany the lyrics.
In an exclusive interview, Dionne, now 25, said: “There was loads of stuff that they found in her notebook and one of the things that she had written out was A Song For Dionne and there was lyrics and stuff in there.
“But there was no melody or chords – nothing. So right now it’s just those lyrics.
“Only she knows what that’s meant to sound like. I just have lyrics to that, but I don’t know what it would have been.”
Amy made her final public appearance on stage with Dionne, who she signed to her own label Lioness Records, at the Roundhouse in Camden, North London, just three days before her death at her home nearby.
Dionne has now opened up in depth for the first time about their time spent together that night, as well as the impact of her passing in a documentary called Amy Winehouse and Me: Dionne’s Story, which airs on MTV UK at 10pm on Monday.
Speaking about her final time seeing Amy, she said: “She was glowing. She looked really well, she was talking really positively and everything was really forward focusing.
“We had spoken about things which were just so happy and positive and I remember thinking, ‘Wow, like, something just seems right.’
“Maybe that was it, she was shining too bright. Because she was shining so bright, then finding out what I found out three days later, it distorted things for me because it was that whole thing of, I just don’t get how someone can go from that to then not being here anymore.”
It also left Dionne wondering whether she had actually died, following a series of fake death announcements on Twitter at the time.
She recalled: “Around about that time, there were a lot of hoaxes going on and they were saying, ‘So and so has died’ on social media.
“So I didn’t really want to accept what had happened. But also because I had seen her three days prior and she was so well, it was more of a shock. I was thinking, ‘How?!’”
Dionne had released two albums prior to Amy’s death but then had years of not even being able to listen to music because of her passing aged just 27.
But now she feels it is her duty to fulfil Amy’s wish for her to have a successful music career.
The singer, who has finally returned to singing with her new track Silly Love, explained: “I remember reading stuff where it was like, ‘She is the new Amy’ and I was like, ‘I’m really not – no one is going to be the new Amy.’ There’s only ever going to be one Amy.
“I’m lucky that I was trained and taught by one of the best, so of course there’s going to be influences from her there. But I’m Dionne, at the end of the day.
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“I had seen such an amazing side to the industry, but I had also seen such a nasty side to it. So I was like, ‘Is this something I actually want to do?’
“I did get turned off for a bit and I tapped out of music for a good two or three years. That was even like listening to music, I had just completely shut off from it.
“But Amy didn’t put me on to then be like, ‘Bye guys!’ So I do feel like I owe it to her to carry on doing it.”
