Abney Park Cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. It is located in the London Borough of Hackney and was originally consecrated in 1840. In 2007, Amy Winehouse filmed the music video for Back to Black in Abney Park Cemetery.
Back to Black
When royalty first came to Abney Park,
the monuments all craned to take a look,
the bushes combed their leaves and smoothed their bark,
and grasses, in excitement, reeled and shook.
The spirits of the cemetery stirred
as soulful melodies were sung aloud,
and though they couldn’t make out every word
the filming drew them close, this ghostly crowd.
A London graveyard is a sombre place,
and phantoms, left behind, are prone to ache,
but Amy was each spectre’s saving grace,
and so, the loveless gathered in her wake.
It was as though she’d been this way before,
where each soul dies a hundred times and more.
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