Amy Winehouse and Russell Brand pose in the awards room at the Q Awards 2006. Picture: Getty Images Source: Getty Images
COMEDIAN and former drug addict Russell Brand has posted a moving tribute to Amy Winehouse.
Brand met her on the Camden pub scene, and described her as "just some twit in a pink satin jacket shuffling round bars".
He said she was "sweet and peculiar but most of all vulnerable".
He said he first realised her genius when he watched her perform with Paul Weller at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London.
"Entering the space I saw Amy on stage with Weller and his band; and then the awe. The awe that envelops when witnessing a genius. From her oddly dainty presence that voice, a voice that seemed not to come from her but from somewhere beyond even Billie and Ella, from the font of all greatness.
"That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I'd only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound."
In two autobiographies, Brand has given searingly honest accounts of his battle to overcome drug addiction.
He said loved ones will always fear getting a phone call with the worst news possible.
"When you love someone who suffers from the disease of addiction you await the phone call.
"There will be a phone call. The sincere hope is that the call will be from the addict themselves, telling you they?ve had enough, that they?re ready to stop, ready to try something new.
"Of course though, you fear the other call, the sad nocturnal chime from a friend or relative telling you it?s too late, she?s gone.
"Frustratingly it?s not a call you can ever make it must be received. It is impossible to intervene."
Read Russell Brand's full tribute to Amy Winehouse 'For Amy' at russellbrand.tv
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