Like, doesn’t it have to rhyme?” He asked her to change it, but she just gave him a blank look. The chorus, though-it kept tripping him up: “We only said goodbye in words, I died a thousand times.” “This thing in my brain went off,” he tells Apple Music, “like Producer 101. What she reemerged with was great: bleak, but funny tough, but hopelessly romantic. Ronson had given her a portable CD player with the song’s piano track, and Winehouse disappeared into the back for about an hour to write. The producer Mark Ronson remembers when Amy Winehouse came in with the lyrics for “Back to Black.” They were at a studio in New York in early 2006, their first day working together.
