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He heard her footsteps overhead for a while, then it went quiet. After seeing a doctor for a routine appointment at around 8.30pm, she played drums and sang into the early hours, until her bouncer told her to keep it down. During his 40-minute eulogy at her funeral on Tuesday her father, Mitch, said the singer had stayed in her Camden Square townhouse. She was alone, it seems, for the last night of her life. She just became increasingly alienated from her own world." "People wouldn't go up to her any more, she wouldn't talk to people.
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"Recently she'd always be with two bouncers rather than two friends," said veteran lads' mag journalist Piers Hernu, who had known Winehouse through friends and the Camden scene for years. No longer able to chat to old friends undisturbed, or throw herself behind the bar to serve a few lucky punters, she would go into the pub on her own on a Monday or Tuesday, often in the quiet of an afternoon, stand in front of the jukebox and turn it up loud. "No one had ever given that response before."īut the picture friends paint of the woman she became is suffused with a different type of light. "I remember when I first met her I asked what she did and she just said, 'I'm a jazz singer,' he said. In those days, Winehouse was a good-time girl with a big mouth and an attitude to match. "Everybody would just stop and be entranced," said Dougie Charles-Ridler, co-owner of the pub and long-time friend of the singer. After a night of drinks and laughter, she would perch her tiny frame on the bar, take up a guitar and sing.
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Sitting on the bar after closing time in her local in Camden, the lights dimmed and the doors locked, Amy Winehouse knew how to hold an audience, even before she became famous.