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Hit Winehouse album a tough listen for her dad
NEW YORK -- Amy Winehouse's father says he has a hard time enjoying her breakthrough Back to Black album because its songs are about her ex-husband.
Mitch Winehouse blames Blake Fielder-Civil for leading his late daughter into drug abuse. He details her long decline in a new memoir, Amy, My Daughter. His views on her ex-husband have been stated before and are well known.
Amy Winehouse died of accidental alcohol poisoning in July. The Grammy Award-winning English singer's Back to Black disc sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.
Her father's memoir is scheduled to come out June 26. The Associated Press bought a copy Monday.
Mitch Winehouse says his daughter stopped taking drugs three years before she died but he worried about her drinking.
-- The Associated Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition June 20, 2012 C2
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