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Amy Winehouse at the BBC Amy Winehouse at the BBC Amy Winehouse at the BBC is a posthumous live album by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse. It was released on 12 November 2012 by Universal Music Group. The album, along with Winehouse's previous record "", was released in aid of the Amy Winehouse Foundation. It features live songs performed by Winehouse at BBC specials during 2004 to 2009. The album was released to moderately positive critical reviews, with aggregator Metacritic assigning a positive review score of 64%, indicating generally favourable reception. Gary Mulholland of the BBC wrote that the set "stands as an alternative