My Amy Spiral-Bound | 2022-05-03

Tyler James

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A moving, intimate look at the life of Amy Winehouse by her best friend.

The death of icon Amy Winehouse at age just twenty-seven rocked the music world. Through the headlines the world thought they watched a car crash: a girl hell-bent on self-destruction. But the truth is far more complicated.

Now, her best friend and constant companion Tyler James wants to tell the real story, because she can't. From their first encounter singing together at stage school, through to their wayward teenage years and Amy's dramatic rise to stardom, Tyler was with her through it all.

Living with her right up until her death, he was the only one there by her side, day-after-day. He supported her through her career highs--the massive success of Back to Black and her five Grammy wins--and personal lows--her lifelong struggles with addiction, insecurity, and eating disorders.

Written with love, My Amy is a heartbreaking look at friendship and fame and provides an illuminating portrait of the woman behind the music--a unique, uncompromising force-of-nature.

This is the definitive story of what really happened to Amy Winehouse.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 1641607815
Item Weight: 1.0 lbs
Dimensions: 6.0 x 0.7 x 9.0 inches
"Unflinchingly honest, My Amy is a personal, beautiful, raw account of friendship, love, and the price of fame. One of the most accurate accounts capturing the relentless grind of the music business at any cost, James does not glamorize the corporate machine that made his best friend a global star nor create a saint of Winehouse, instead providing a familiar if ghastly recognizable portrait of the realities and mechanism of celebrity. Breathtaking in its bravery, My Amy is essential though often not easy reading." --Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, author of Being Britney: Pieces of a Modern Icon and You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico
Tyler James is an English singer and songwriter. Tyler has been sober for twelve years and now works with addicts as a speaker, using his personal experience to help families and individuals in the fight against addiction. Tyler lives on a farm in Ireland.