Up All Night With Amy Winehouse: Exclusive Interview and Behind-the-Story Video

For the current issue of Rolling Stone, writer Claire Hoffman journeyed to London for a first-hand look at Amy Winehouse. Hoffman was welcomed inside Winehouse's chaotic home and tapped into her delicate mental state. Click below for the full Winehouse experience, including her frankness about smoking crack and her tumultuous relationship with her husband. Also check out the photo timeline of the chaotic year in the life of Winehouse, and see Hoffman react to the voracious paparazzi and the curious way Winehouse "multi-tasks."

• Up All Night With Amy Winehouse

• Photo Gallery: A (Tumultuous) Year in the Life of Amy Winehouse

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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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