Ronson doubles up for Back to Black at twenty

Deluxe formats land on 23 October with demos, rare B-sides and a Paradiso live set — two nights after the Camden tribute he will share with Salaam Remi.

Mark Ronson is now locked into both halves of the Back to Black twentieth-anniversary campaign: the deluxe reissue of Amy Winehouse’s 2006 album, set for 23 October through UMR and Island, and the full-album night already booked at Camden’s Roundhouse on 21 October.

The package expands the original record with unreleased demos, rare B-sides and a live recording from the Paradiso in Amsterdam. Ronson’s involvement in the re-release was confirmed at the end of August. Details of the formats and the stage bill have emerged since. The concert itself was already on the books — Ronson and Salaam Remi reuniting with The Amy Winehouse Band, and a cast of guest vocalists taking the songs — and the reissue now gives the anniversary a catalogue centre of gravity as well as a single Camden date.

Producers, band and guests

On stage, the frame is the same one the album was built around. Ronson and Remi produced the bulk of Back to Black; they return with The Amy Winehouse Band for a run-through of the record in full. Confirmed guest singers include Jorja Smith, Corinne Bailey Rae, FLO, Jessie Reyez, Lianne La Havas and Yebba, with further names still to be added. Ronson said he was “honoured to be asked to come celebrate Amy alongside Salaam and some amazing artists worthy of singing her songs.”

That wording matters. Winehouse died in 2011. She does not take the stage; her songs do. The night is a tribute held by the musicians who made the record and by singers chosen to carry the parts, not a reconstruction dressed up as a return.

Where the album sits

Back to Black was Winehouse’s second and final studio album released in her lifetime, following Frank in 2003. It fixed her deep contralto and her mix of soul, rhythm and blues, reggae and jazz in the centre of British pop, and it fixed Ronson there with her. He took the Grammy for Producer of the Year for the album and shared Record of the Year for the single “Rehab”. His own run of records began with Here Comes The Fuzz in 2003; the Winehouse work remains the collaboration that defined his standing before later peaks that include “Uptown Funk” and the Barbie soundtrack of 2023, for which he served as lead and executive producer and co-wrote several songs with Andrew Wyatt.

The anniversary project therefore lands on the record that still anchors both catalogues. For Winehouse it is the album that made the legacy; for Ronson it is the production job that still frames how his craft is read. A deluxe pass with demos, B-sides and the Paradiso tape is the catalogue’s way of showing the work around the finished tracks — the sketches and the live heat — without pretending the maker is still here to add to them.

General sale for the Roundhouse show was already flagged for 1 October, after an earlier presale. No further dates beyond Camden have been announced. The reissue follows two days after the gig, on 23 October. What remains open is how wide the guest list grows on the night, and which of the unreleased pieces the deluxe formats choose to lead with — details the label and the promoters have not yet spelled out in full.