Amy Winehouse’s posthumous album was “very difficult” to listen to, says her father Mitch.
Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden Treasures was released today, and consists of 12 previously unreleased archive recordings of the late singer. The album was compiled by friends and music producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi.
Amy’s father Mitch gave the record his approval before its release, and says the process wasn’t an easy one.
“When we went to listen to the album it was a very difficult time for us," he told British TV show Daybreak. "It was very emotional. But we had to sit through it and after the first couple of songs we sort of calmed down a little bit.
"Our son was there as well and we all had to be in agreement that the album was of the same quality or better, in fact, than Frank and Back to Black, and we were more than pleasantly surprised."
Mitch also explained the family’s first Christmas without Amy was going to be "particularly hard.”
Some of the proceeds from the record will go to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, which was set up by Mitch in her memory.
Amy – who publicly battled with drink and drug demons - was found dead at her Camden home in North London in July. An inquest into her death in October heard she was more than five times the legal drink-drive limit when she died.
She was just 27.
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