Frank is Amy Winehouse’s debut album, with the title paying tribute to legendary jazz performance Frank Sinatra, whose influence played a major part in the genesis of Frank. However, Amy made it clear during a 2004 interview with Paul de Noyer that the decision to name the album after Frank Sinatra was for a very specific reason: Sinatra had an emotional connection with music. That was his thing. He had the tone in his voice. But singers? I know a hundred singers that piss on Frank. And musicians. And just as a person: he was an arsehole. But he had an emotional connection to songs that touched everyone, women, men, soldiers. Although the album received critical acclaim, with one of the its singles even going platinum, Winehouse herself later expressed dissatisfaction for how it came out years later: Some things on this album make me go to a little place that’s fucking bitter. I’ve never heard the album from start to finish. I don’t have it in my house. Well, the marketing was fucked, the promotion was terrible. Everything was in shambles. It’s frustrating, because you work with so many idiots—but they’re nice idiots. So you can’t be like, “You’re an idiot.” They know that they’re idiots. Frank peaked at #33 on the US Billboard charts. However, its sales nearly doubled after fans rushed to buy her LPs following her death in 2011.