Fame could follow her everywhere, but there were moments when Amy just wanted to be another neighbor.
Amy Winehouse might be playing on radios around the world, appearing on magazine covers and being pursued by photographers, but in her everyday life she continued doing surprisingly ordinary things: going out to buy food, picking up the newspaper, entering small shops or passing through the same places she used to frequent before becoming a star.
That routine was especially visible in the neighborhood where she lived in London, where many shopkeepers and neighbors eventually became accustomed to seeing her appear without a large entourage or any fanfare.
For Amy, these small habits seemed to serve as a way of preserving something of her own amid a fame that increasingly took up more space in her life.
While to the rest of the world she was Amy Winehouse, in those moments she could still simply be Amy, going out to buy what she needed like anyone else.
