Amy Winehouse was headed to Israel

August 28, 2011 - 7:57 AM by David

Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse back when they worked together.

This summer might have ended up with a bigger bang than the one the residents of the South are feeling under the heat of regular rocket fire from Gaza. According to prolific British record producer, DJ and performer Mark Ronson, who performed at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds on Thursday night, his late partner/client Amy Winehouse had intended to join him in Israel for the show.

Ronson, who produced the acclaimed album Back to Back for Winehouse, who died last month in London, honored the late singer by playing reworked versions of several of her songs before the packed crowd of 5,000. According to a report in Ha’aretz, with tears in his eyes, he then asked the audience to applaud in honor of Winehouse, and noted that her brother, Alex, was in the audience.

“He looks just like Amy, only with short hair,” Ronson said, who performed with his band the Business Intelligence. One special guest who was able to come with Ronson to Israel was Boy George, the one-time iconic singer for Culture Club, who delighted the crowd with some of his classic hits.

Ronson didn’t only perform here, he also spent the morning of the show speaking about peace and music with a group of young Jewish and Arab Israelis at the Peres Center for Peace, in Jaffa. It was Ronson’s second visit to Israel this year, and he ended the show by vowing that he’d be back. It’s nice for the country to have friends besides Glenn Beck.

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