Amy Winehouse Cancels Fall North American Tour Due to Health Concerns

Amy Winehouse's U.S. and Canadian fall tour has been canceled in the name of her physical well-being. "Plans are being made to reschedule her U.S. tour for early 2008," reads a statement from the singer's rep. "Until then, Amy has been ordered to rest and is working with medical professionals to address her health." Winehouse recently went through a highly publicized bout of "exhaustion" (which may very well have been a drug overdose) and subsequent hospitalization in London. The singer is scheduled to tour Europe and the U.K. later in the fall, and those dates are still scheduled ... for now. However, it looks like the nixing of her North American trek may mean Winehouse won't be showing up at September 9th's MTV Video Music Awards, where she is nominated for three Moonmen. Fellow headline-making British star Lily Allen -- who will also be absent from the Las Vegas awards show thanks to visa issues -- was recently criticized for toasting the troubled songstress onstage. Allen has defended herself, saying, "Me raising a drink to Amy was just that, showing my support for her. I've been around enough substance abuse and alcoholism to know that it's a serious matter."

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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