The chairman of Universal Music has revealed that he destroyed the demos for Amy Winehouse's unreleased third studio album.
David Joseph made the revelation to Billboard magazine, as he discussed new documentary Amy, on which he serves as an executive producer.
Producer Salaam Remi told how the majority of the follow-up to Back to Black was written weeks before her death on July 23, 2011.
"She probably finished the writing Âprocess a few weeks before she passed. As far as I could see, we had 14 songs," Remi said. "Whatever needed to happen, it was right there."
However, the tracks were not among the demos featured on the Lioness: Hidden Treasures album released in late 2011, and are unlikely to ever be heard by fans.
"It was a moral thing," Joseph said of his decision to destroy the early demos. "Taking a stem or a vocal is not something that would ever happen on my watch."
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He added: "It now can't happen on anyone else's."
Watch documentary footage of 14-year-old Amy Winehouse singing 'Happy Birthday' below:
