14 DAY TRIAL // Come the summer of 2012, fans of late singer Amy Winehouse will have yet another thing to remind them of what a great artist she was. Mitch Winehouse, the star’s father, has teamed up with Harper Collins to publish a memoir.
The book will come out next summer and will attempt to present a side of Amy that fans were probably never familiar with because of how much attention was paid to her drug problems and public antics.
“Mitch Winehouse wants to tell her incredible story in full,” Harper Collins says in a statement cited by AceShowbiz.
As such, he will focus on Amy’s formative years up to her final days, when he last saw her.
“From her mischievous early years, through her rise to stardom to her much publicized struggles with addiction, he will bring the many layers of her life together – the personal, the private and the public – to create a fitting tribute to his much loved daughter,” the publisher further says in the same statement.
The book, called “Amy, My Daughter,” according to ongoing online reports, will be “heartfelt and revelatory” but will not try to capitalize on Amy’s death.
In fact, Mitch wants to use the book to help others who might be in the same position and battling the same demons as his daughter also did once.
“All proceeds from the sales of the book will go to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, a charity for children and young adults that was founded by Mitch following the ‘Rehab’ songstress’ death earlier this year,” AceShowbiz writes.
Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London apartment this summer. She was just 27 years old and, as per her father, she had been clean of drugs for some years but was still to kick her addiction to alcohol.
Toxicology results have confirmed that, indeed, there were no illegal substances in her body at the time of her death, but the results of the inquest are yet to be made public.