Unheard Amy Winehouse Songs To Be Released

A new Amy Winehouse album, featuring previously unheard material, is to be released to help raise money for the charity set up in her name after she died in July.

Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden Treasures is due for release in December.

The collection features out-takes, two completely new songs and a demo recorded at
her Camden flat while she played guitar.

It will also include Winehouse's recording of jazz track Body And Soul with Tony Bennett.

Producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson pulled the album together after listening to thousands of hours of vocals by the star.

Winehouse's father Mitch told The Sun newspaper the songs "took my breath away".

He said: "Had the family felt this album wasn't up to the standard of Amy's others, Frank and Back To Black, we'd never have agreed to release it.

"We believe it will stand as a fitting tribute to her musical legacy."

Mr Winehouse added that he had not heard one of the new songs, called Halftime, before he listened to the collection.

Remi said listening back to Winehouse's voice was an "emotional" experience: "I believe she has left something beyond her years."

The 27-year-old star was found dead in bed in her Camden flat in north London on July 23.

Last week, an inquest heard the singer was more than five times the legal drink-drive limit when she died.

She had battled a drug problem but was clear of illegal drugs when she died.