Suzanne Harrington: Boring everyday alcohol killed Amy Winehouse — deadly dull yet deadly

"The thing about Amy Winehouse is that she was very funny and very clever. This razor-sharp irreverence does not come across in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s beautiful film about her..."

Amy Winehouse, pictured in 2008.

My favourite Amy Winehouse moment is when she sang “Free-eee Blakey my fella” at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday party in 2008 in Hyde Park, London. 

Gordon Brown, then prime minister, had to explain to Mr Mandela who Amy was, and why she had changed the song’s original lyrics to sing about another incarcerated person.