Ronnie Wood Remembers Amy Winehouse's Struggles and His Advice To Her
The Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is remembering the late Amy Winehouse and the words they exchanged.
While speaking to The Sunday Times about The Rolling Stones' new album, Foreign Tongues, the 79-year-old recalled speaking to the singer before she died in 2011, aged just 27.
"She would go: ‘Oh Ronnie, what am I going to do?' I said: ‘Look, everyone knows you've got vodka in the water bottle. Get it together and get on stage.' But if you could get her up there and she stayed there, it'd be great," he said in the interview published Saturday, July 4.
"I'm sad because she didn't do her full span," Wood added. "It was like saying goodbye to Billie Holiday again." Winehouse struggled with addiction throughout her career, battling drug and alcohol addiction along with bulimia.
The Rolling Stones recently covered her song "You Know I'm No Good" on their new album, Foreign Tongues. According to The Times, frontman Mick Jagger's harmonica replaces horns as the lead instrument on the track.
According to The Sunday Times, frontman Mick Jagger's harmonica replaces horns as the lead instrument on the track. "Mick expresses himself on harmonica probably in the fullest way that he can, even better than as a vocalist," Keith Richards explained to the British newspaper.
Richards admitted his regret at not spending more time with the "Back To Black" singer before her untimely death. "I was always sort of ‘well, I'm bound to meet her down the road.' You expect things to happen, and unfortunately no," he said. "But that's what records are for."
"I'm just very glad and honored to have played with her at least once," the guitarist added. The Rolling Stones performed with Winehouse at England's Isle of Wight Festival in June 2007.
Foreign Tongues is out on July 10.
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This story was originally published July 5, 2026 at 5:52 PM.