Valerie: Original

British troubled female singer teams back with Mark Ronson, the man responsible for the soulful sonic turn on her last album, and returns the favour recording one of the highlights in the producer’s all-star latest work. “Valerie”, a cover of retro pop-rockers The Zutons, lost its jaunty guitar appeal, being shaped into a classy retro soul number with controversial results: fans of the Merseyside band dismiss it in the same way that Ronson’s former cover of The Smiths, “Stop me”, was considered a sacrilege. But Amy’s new legion of followers will find more of that familiar sound that has made of her second album “Back to Black” a coffee table favourite and one of the biggest selling of the year.  shazam