30 April, 2007.

Okay, I’m just going to come right out and say it – I really don’t like this song. Quite possibly a rather controversial opinion, being as it seems like everybody still raves about it, but it does come down to personal taste in the end – and this just isn’t mine.

Written by Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson, who also produced the single, this was the third single released from Winehouse’s second, and final, album of the same name. This was the first record that Winehouse and Ronson wrote together and was heavily influenced by the girls groups of the 1960s, emulating the soul music of the that time and paying homage to groups like the Shangri-Las, of whom Winehouse was a fan.

On its release this was met with universal acclaim from the music critics, who seemed particularly impressed with Ronson’s Wall of Sound. Commercially it would go on to give Winehouse her second UK top ten hit, although on first release it only reached number twenty-five. Following her death in 2011, the song re-entered the charts and reached number eight, it’s highest chart position. To date it has spent a total of fifty-seven weeks on the chart.