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Adele: Amy Winehouse is the reason I make music
Much like our universe, there are some artists that seem to bloom spontaneously. They are luminaries – that leave an imprint on the world long after they are gone.
Amy Winehouse was that kind of artist – and in an interview with Vice’s i-D – Adele reveals that she was just as big of a fan (if not more so) than the rest of us.
She shares:
“If it wasn't for Amy and Frank, 100% I wouldn't have picked up a guitar, I wouldn’t have written Daydreamer or Hometown and I wrote Someone Like You on the guitar too.”
Adele clarifies that the two weren’t friends, but did attend the same school for a brief period of time. She says she adored Winehouse and wavered on whether or not she would watch Amy, a documentary released in July 2015, which chronicled the soulful songstress’s life through a compilation of personal testimonials as well as previously unreleased footage and tracks.
Adele says:
“I wasn’t going to [see it]. I loved her and I went through my own massive grieving process as her fan. I’d finally got to a place where I felt really great about the impact she'd had on my life, in every way. I felt really, really fond of it all. But then I read this review of it and that made me go and see it.”
