@thetimes: In Los Angeles in 2007, the newly married singer bared all to The Sunday Times Magazine about family, fame, her future — and her love of housework. The story was never published. Until now. Then in June this year I received an email from an editor at The Sunday Times I hadn’t heard from for 15 years, writes Ariel Leve. She had bumped into Shane O’Neill, Amy’s former PR, who asked her: do you know what ever happened to that interview? Later that evening, I located the box and dug through my old tapes. Where was Amy? Finally: two 60-minute microcassettes wrapped in a red rubber band. Next I had to locate the tape recorder to play them. It was 1am. I had the machine and a new set of triple-A batteries. I loaded the first tape, took a deep breath and pressed play. The first time I listened back to the tapes, it was eerie to hear her voice, be alone in the room with her at 1am, listening to a ghost. She sounded so young. I wrote words down on a notepad: self-aware. Quick-witted. Funny. Mostly, responses that had not seemed revelatory at the time were now almost unbearably poignant. #amywinehouse #soul #soulmusic #rnb #ukmusic

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