Amy Winehouse's 'Back to Black' Video Joins YouTube Billion Views Club – Billboard

The 2007 black and white clip is the late singer’s first visual to reach the milestone. Amy Winehouse “Back To Black” Courtesy Photo Amy Winehouse has finally reached the YouTube billion views club. The Grammy-winning late soul/R&B star who tragically died at 27 of alcohol poisoning in 2011 is now part of that elite society thanks to her 2007 “Back to Black” visual crossing the nine zero mark. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The elegant black and white Phil Griffin-directed video is Winehouse’s first to reach a billion. In keeping with the dramatic nature of the singer’s rapid rise to fame and equally precipitous fall into substance use and early death, it originally featured a funeral procession and the singer paying her respects over a headstone that read: “R.I.P. the Heart of Amy Winehouse” (that bit was excised after the singer’s death.) For the most part, the visual shot at Abney Park Cemetery in northeast London focuses on Winehouse performing the heartbreak anthem in a black dress, her signature beehive hairdo and dramatic eyeliner as her band await the beginning of a grim funeral procession. “We only said goodbye with words/ I died a hundred times,” she sings
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