--- title: Amy Winehouse Documentary: Recording Back to Black With Mark Ronson description: In a clip from the new documentary Amy canonical: https://time.com/3949772/amy-winehouse-documentary-back-to-black/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-08T17:35:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:21.057Z og:title: Watch Amy Winehouse Record 'Back to Black' in 2006 og:description: In a clip from the new documentary 'Amy' og:url: https://time.com/3949772/amy-winehouse-documentary-back-to-black/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Amy Winehouse Record 'Back to Black' in 2006 twitter:description: In a clip from the new documentary 'Amy' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Amy Winehouse Record 'Back to Black' in 2006 > Sponsored content. 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Amy | Official Trailer HD | A24_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 8, 2015 5:35 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 8, 2015 5:35 PM UTC The highly anticipated Amy Winehouse documentary _Amy_ is in select theaters now (and opening worldwide July 10), so if you haven’t seen it yet, this clip offers a sneak peek. The three-minute video shows Winehouse recording “Back to Black” with producer Mark Ronson in a New York City studio in March, 2006\. You’ll see her belting the song perfectly, effortlessly, without musical accompaniment. “It was just one of those serendipitous things. I just caught her at that magic moment, and she was just ready to get it going,” Ronson says in the clip. “That’s why I couldn’t understand what everyone else was saying about this procrastinating, troubled artist.” The clip also offers Winehouse’s own reflections on recording this tune: “”I had these feelings, these words floating around in me. When you write a song, you have to remember how you felt. You might have to remember what the weather was like. You might have to remember what his neck smelled like. 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