Amy Winehouse’s label destroyed the demos for her unfinished third album
In a sharp contrast to the way Michael Jackson’s record label has treated every single scrap of unreleased music he made before he died, Amy Winehouse’s label—Universal Music U.K.—has destroyed all of the unfinished demos she was working on for her third album when she died. According to Billboard, Winehouse had “finished the writing process” a few weeks before her death, and as far as the label could tell, it had about 14 song demos that were ready to go. All it needed to do was make the questionable leap from “normal record label” to “kind of gross and tasteless record label” by coming up with a way to make money off of them. CEO David Joseph chose not to make that leap, though, and destroyed the demos instead.