Amy Winehouse gravesite — Edgwarebury Lane Cemetery

Amy Winehouse was buried at Edgwarebury Lane Cemetery in Edgware, in the far northwest of London, on July 26, 2011 — three days after her death. The cemetery, also known as Golders Green Jewish Cemetery or the Edgware Jewish Cemetery section, reflects the Winehouse family's Jewish heritage. Her family held a private funeral service; the burial was attended by close family and friends. The following month, the family held a larger memorial service at a synagogue in North London.

The grave has become a site of pilgrimage for her fans — a modest marker in a quiet suburban cemetery at the edge of London, visited by people from around the world who make the journey to Edgware specifically to stand there. The contrast between the intimacy of the setting and the global scale of her fame is acute. She sold more than thirty million copies of Back to Black; her grave is in a North London suburb, reached by bus from Edgware underground station on the Northern line.

Back to Black was the bestselling album in the UK for both 2007 and 2008. Its songs — "Rehab," "You Know I'm No Good," "Tears Dry on Their Own," "Love Is a Losing Game," the title track — are among the most precisely crafted pop recordings of the 2000s: conversational, heartbroken, produced by Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi with a sound that absorbed fifty years of American soul and R&B without feeling derivative of any of it. She made one album and one EP of that quality, and no more. The cemetery in Edgware is the place where that stops.