13. Amy Winehouse Meets Tony Bennett
Anyone who has followed the beautifully tragic life of Amy Winehouse or seen the documentary Amy knows how much Tony Bennett and his work meant to the soulful singer. She gushed when Bennett presented her with an award, and she was clearly living her dream when given the opportunity to sing a duet (which turned out to be the singer’s final recording) “Body and Soul” and she declared how much both she and her father love Bennett. To this day Bennett regrets not talking to her about her drug abuse or passing along some words of wisdom that had always stuck with him, specifically something he had been told by Jack Rollins (Woody Allen’s manager at the time) surrounding the drug overdose of Lenny Bruce that changed his life, “he sinned against his talent.”
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