Amys clothes for fans

Amy Winehouses dad handed out her clothes to grieving fans outside her home on Thursday. Mitch Winehouse stunned crowds holding a vigil outside her house in Camden by emerging with outfits, jewellery and trinkets belonging to the star, before distributing them to mourners. Mitch told them: These are Amys T-shirts. This is what she would have wanted - for her fans to have her clothes. Please keep listening to her music. God bless Amy Winehouse. Fan Brigitte Pividal - who was given a red vest - said: I have been coming here every day since she died and I didnt expect this. I will cherish this for the rest of my life. Mitch, 60, was accompanied to the property by Amys mother Janis, 56, their son Alex and close friend Tyler James as part of the Jewish tradition, Shiva - which requires the family of the deceased to mourn their passing for a week. The part-time taxi driver also urged the 'Back to Black singers fans to take the tributes left for her home with them. Meanwhile, the rabbi who conducted Amys funeral has revealed the troubled star had discussed her funeral arrangements with her family before her death. Speaking about the 27-year-old musician - who had battled drink and drug addiction for several years but was said to have been clean of hard drugs for three years - Rabbi Frank Hellner told the Daily Mirror newspaper: She was on a course of self-destruction. Although she was fighting at the end and thought she had prevailed, it had gone too far. She was a frail little girl. I think it was too much for her body and she succumbed. Around a dozen unheard Amy Winehouse tracks could reportedly be released. A source close to the late singers record label Universal revealed that there are frameworks of 12 songs that could be used for a third studio album, reports The Guardian. Despite having not released any new material since her second album Back To Black in 2006, Winehouse had been intermittently recording new music over the past three years. Amy had expressed an interest in getting back into the studio, the source explained. She had put down the bare bones of tracks and some were further along than others. AS

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