Can you come a little closer lyrics2/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Wandering around the exhibition, the sheer depth of feeling that Winehouse had for music is inescapable. That’s what the Design Museum hopes to correct with its new exhibition, Amy Beyond The Stage, which features never-before-exhibited outfits, pages and pages of handwritten song lyrics and some very impressive audio-visual installations that seek to remind you that Amy Winehouse was not just tabloid catnip nor “troubled woman”: she was an artist. The circumstances of her death – complications arising from alcohol dependency – and the drama that overshadowed her music in the last years of her life have conspired to keep “Amy the Artist” somewhat out of the spotlight. ![]() Winehouse was somehow simultaneously a timeless voice and an icon so concretely of her time that she came to define music and fashion in the early 2000s. Equally it seems unfathomable that only 10 years have gone by. It seems impossible that 10 whole years have passed since that sunny July day in 2011 when the news trickled slowly out to the world. This July marked the 10-year anniversary of Amy Winehouse’s death, a milestone that felt horologically off.
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