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Amy Winehouse won five awards at the 2008 Grammys, including Record of the Year, though she wasn’t able to be there in person. Denied a visa due to her drug abuse, she performed instead via satellite from London. We get a glimpse of that night inside Riverside Studios during Asif Kapadia’s extraordinary 2015 documentary Amy, where Amy gazes up in awe at the sight of Tony Bennett, one of her idols, joining Natalie Cole onstage in Los Angeles. She looks more like a fan than an exiled member of that glittery world, winking at the audience up late with her and making a snarky aside about Justin Timberlake as the nominees are announced. But when she wins and the room erupts around her, it’s as though she’s been…
