"She's guilty of loving him, stupid girl." --Mitch Winehouse

Amy Winehouse's father is all about tough love. The embattled star wants to reunite with her estranged husband, Blake Fielder-Civil. And, well, as Dad puts it, "She nearly ended up dead thanks to him."


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'Keep Marching,' Raphael Saadiq

Kid Rock recently said that he wanted to take a cue from Amy Winehouse and adopt authentic '60s soul sounds. He should have sought out this former Tony! Toni! Toné! leader, who delivered the real deal with one of the year's most satisfying R&B cuts. Whereas Winehouse enlisted the Dap-Kings, Saadiq hired an original Funk Brother, percussionist Jack Ashford, and has effectively asked those Brooklyn retro-soulsters for the crown back.
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"My first school was great but I'd have a kid by now if I hadn't left there for the Brit school." --Adele

The Grammy-nominated singer discussed the upsides of attending the free performing arts school, where Leona Lewis and Amy Winehouse also studied.

When it came time for Tom Jones to record his new album, '24 Hours,' he found a surprising kindred spirit in Amy Winehouse, whose 'Back to Black' provided a blueprint of sorts.

"I wanted to record an album that got the same vibrant feeling I used to get when I first started recording," Jones tells Spinner. "I loved a lot of the songs I did on Decca. When I heard ['Back to Black'], it reminded me of the stuff that I had done before. She did inspire me, but it's not like I heard that and I knew what I wanted to do. It just sort of reassured me that an album could be done like that."

To many Americans, the British accent can be divided into two distinct categories that have more to do with status than region. There's the stiff-upper-lip elocution of the aristocracy, and there's the marble-mouthed Cockney of the working class. (Think Noel Coward vs. the Sex Pistols' Steve Jones.)

In reality, there are dozens of regional accents in the UK, just as there are in America. The Brits have the near-Irish lilt of Liverpudlian Scouse, the indecipherable, every-statement-a-question singsong of Welsh and the thick tongue of "Brummie" (the Birmingham accent), to name just a few.

The hotel chain Travelodge has just conducted a survey of Britain's most hated celebrity accents. Among the biggest offenders: Ozzy Osbourne, who mumbles in Brummie; Charlotte Church, whose classical pedigree can't mask her broad Welsh accent; and Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles, who mocks Cockneys in motormouth Tyke.

Topping the list, however, are two rough-and-tumble Cockney women of song who are no strangers to negative publicity. We can just hear fellow Eliza Doolittles Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen reacting to their latest dubious achievements: "A load of old pony, that. Ye can hit and miss me Khyber pass!"

"Nelson Mandela and my husband have a great deal in common -- both of them have spent a great deal of time in prison." --Amy Winehouse

The embattled singer made a questionable connection between her still-incarcerated spouse and the former President of South Africa.

"I realize my daughter could be dead within the year. We're watching her kill herself, slowly."

--Amy's mother Janis Winehouse, January 2008