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Amy Winehouse
High above the Finchley Road, the mural is topped with police on horses in the Battle of Cable Street.
July 12, 2024, 1:17 pm
Giant JW3 artwork paints a vibrant picture of Jewish London
Abseilers install Leon Fenster's glorious depiction of the city's communal history
By Jenni Frazer
Eddie Marsan as Mitch Winehouse with director Sam Taylor-Wood on the set of Back to Black
April 24, 2024, 9:14 am
INTERVIEW: Back to Amy: Eddie Marsan on playing Mitch Winehouse
Back to Black, the Amy Winehouse biopic, is out now, with Eddie Marsan playing the iconic singer’s father, Mitch. Here he discusses the emotional journey of bringing Amy’s story to the screen
Mitch Winehouse with daughter Amy and in front of the statue of her in Camden (pic:Adam Soller
April 23, 2024, 11:43 pm
If Mitch Winehouse could spend one more day with Amy
Cruelly vilified after the singer's death, Amy's father felt emotional watching Black to Black but says the film was not about setting records straight
By Brigit Grant
Courtesy of Harper's Bazaar UK/Jem Mitchell.
March 24, 2024, 12:27 pm
Marisa Abela says ‘feeling frailer and smaller’ helped her portray Amy Winehouse
British actress speaks to Harper's Bazaar UK magazine about her preparation for iconic film role in Back to Black
By JN Reporter
January 19, 2024, 5:58 pm
WATCH: First look at Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black
A host of well-known faces star in eagerly-awaited movie about the singer
By Linda Marric
Zoom Rockman with Amy Winehouse
June 10, 2023, 6:47 pm
Zoom Rockman – the young man behind the must-see exhibition of the summer
Lord Sugar, Dame Maureen Lipman and David Baddiel are among the stars on display at The Jewish Hall of Fame at JW3
By Debbie Collins
Daisy Edgar-Jones is playing Jewish New Yorker Carole King
December 28, 2022, 8:45 pm
OPINION: Do Jews count? Ask song writing legend Carole King
In the biopic Beautiful, Daisy Edgar-Jones will play the Jewish composer. So why are we bothered, asks Jewish News' Brigit Grant.
By Brigit Grant
A visitor looks at an immersive installation at an exhibition titled 'Amy: Beyond the Stage' at the Design Museum in London. Picture date: Wednesday November 24, 2021.
November 25, 2021, 2:04 pm
Amy Winehouse’s father says new exhibition will ‘dispel’ bad narrative around her
Mitch Winehouse said: “Everything in the past has been about the negative side of Amy. You never get to see or hear about her positiveness and all the great things that she did"
Amy Winehouse in Dingle
November 11, 2021, 4:00 pm
Amy up close and personal
Ten years after her death, Amy Winehouse is making film the focus of Jewish Book Week
By Brigit Grant
Dress designed by Naomi Parry, which Amy Winehouse wore for her final stage performance in Belgrade in June 2011 which has sold for more than 243,000 US dollars (£180,000) at an auction of the late singer's estate. And Amy Winehouse
November 8, 2021, 11:18 am
Dress worn by Amy Winehouse for final stage performance fetches £180,000
Minidress designed by stylist Naomi Parry and worn during Winehouse’s final stage performance sold for £180,000, 16 times the original estimate.
By Jewish News Reporter
Mitch Winehouse seeks to address the accusations thrown at him following Amy Winehouse's death in 2011 in new BBC2 documentary, Reclaiming Amy. Credit: Adam Lawrence
July 14, 2021, 6:29 pm
Mitch Winehouse: ‘We were always there for Amy the whole time, the whole family’
A decade after her death, Amy Winehouse's dad reveals there was so much more to her than tabloid headlines, as BBC2's new film Reclaiming Amy reveals...
By Francine Wolfisz
Amy Winehouse with her mother, Janis. The BBC will mark 10 years since the death of Amy Winehouse with a one-off documentary uncovering "the real Amy".
March 31, 2021, 2:32 pm
BBC to uncover ‘real Amy Winehouse’ with 10th anniversary documentary
The film will feature interviews with her mother Janis Winehouse as well as previously unseen footage from the Winehouse family collection, plus BBC archive content.
By Jewish News Reporter
Mitch Winehouse next to a mural of Amy
March 15, 2021, 12:13 pm
Amy Winehouse: ‘Singer was robbed of dignity by phone hacking’ claims father
EXCLUSIVE: The late singer, who died in 2011 aged 27, was left fearing her house was bugged as a result of being “targeted” by phone hacking, her father has alleged.
By Josh Salisbury
December 4, 2020, 7:24 pm
A father’s story – Mitch Winehouse: ‘No one exploited my daughter’
She was a supreme talent who died too young. He is her adoring dad. Mitch Winehouse shares memories and movie plans with Brigit Grant on a walk in Amy’s manor
By Brigit Grant
Amy Winehouse with dad Mitch
May 21, 2020, 2:31 pm
Amy Winehouse’s father opens up about daughter’s mental health struggles
Late singer's dad Mitch says 'most people' are affected by mental ill health. It’s indiscriminate and can strike at any time'
By Sandy Rashty
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