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

“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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