Abbey Road Studios
St John’s Wood, London
2011 · song
Body and Soul at Abbey Road
Amy Winehouse and Tony Bennett’s Abbey Road duet: a shared recording room, a familiar microphone and a final session preserved on film.
Body and Soul brought Amy Winehouse and Tony Bennett together at Abbey Road in March 2011. The studio connects the duet to a physical encounter between two singers, and to the filmed record of that encounter. Winehouse’s final recording became part of Bennett’s Duets II and was later released in support of the foundation established in her memory.
Explore the places
Markers identify buildings or documented location references. They do not mark an exact recording room, stage position or camera angle.
Two singers in a London studio
The Amy Winehouse Foundation places the recording at Abbey Road in March 2011. Columbia’s contemporary announcement identifies both the audio track and the accompanying video, preserving the collaboration as something listeners could hear and viewers could watch. The location matters because the work is an encounter between performers, not simply two names assembled on a track listing. The studio is the setting in which Bennett and Winehouse worked together, and the video lets that shared space remain part of the duet’s public story. [1] [2]
A microphone within a longer recording history
Abbey Road’s Art of Recording project identifies the Neumann U47 used for Winehouse’s vocal and places that microphone model within the studio’s wider history of singing. A piece of equipment gives the location story a smaller scale: a famous complex becomes the immediate relationship between a voice and a microphone. The studio’s account links this session to its accumulated working traditions, while the foundation and label establish the duet’s later release. The place can be understood through the making of the sound without assigning a speculative position within a recording room. [3] [1]
The story in real places
Reading the place today
Abbey Road is a working recording complex. Its exterior and musical history can be read from the public street, but the duet’s studio setting does not establish visitor access to a recording room.
Sources
- Body and Soul — Amy Winehouse Foundation. Checked 2026-10-17.
- Body and Soul: original single and video announcement — Columbia Records / Sony Music. Checked 2026-10-17.
- Body and Soul: Neumann U47 — Abbey Road Studios, Art of Recording. Checked 2026-10-17.