Kelly Jones wrote Amy Winehouse track
Welsh rockers Stereophonics have paid tribute to Amy Winehouse on their new album by including a track frontman Kelly Jones wrote for the late singer before her 2011 death.
The rocker was inspired to pen Been Caught Cheating by reports of the Back to Black hitmaker's tumultuous love life and approached her about the possibility of recording the tune.
Winehouse, who was dating filmmaker Reg Traviss at the time of her
death, passed away before she had heard the track, so the band has
featured it on new album, Graffiti on the Train.
Jones tells Britain's Daily Star newspaper, "I read an article
about Amy's love life and the line 'Been caught cheating' came to
me. I'd said hello to Amy at festivals and then I bumped into her
at a record company party where she was with her fella Reg Traviss.
I've met Reg a couple of times since Amy died; he's a lovely
guy.
"We got talking about songwriting and Amy was up for me sending her
this song, but I never got round to it. I thought it was too bluesy
for Stereophonics to play but it's come out really raw and
tough."
Winehouse, whose whirlwind romance and subsequent divorce from
Blake Fielder-Civil hit headlines, was found dead in her London
home after a booze binge.