IT was a seminal moment in Amy Winehouse’s celebrated, if too short, musical career; a moment of apparent spontaneous defiance.

As she collected the Record Of The Year gong at the 2008 Grammy Awards, the singer famously screamed: “Camden Town Ain’t Burning Down.”

It was a reference to the infamous Camden Fire, the night before, which saw flames visible across London lick the night sky and one of her favourite pubs, the Hawley Arms, go up in flames.

But a new collection of souvenirs from her Grammy celebrations shows the phrase did not just pop into her head, and had always been planned as a tribute to NW1 at a time of disaster.

A typed prompt sheet, including the words “Camden Town Ain’t Burning Down”, will go under the hammer in London today (Thursday) alongside Grammy Awards backstage passes and a dressing room sign. It includes two reminders to thank her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who was in prison at the time. Auctioneers Bonham said the items came from a “member of Amy’s touring crew from 2007 to 2011”. Ms Winehouse died in 2011, aged 27, at her Camden Square home. The same memorabilia auction will feature letters written to fans by George Harrison, a mixtape of songs recorded off the radio by Noel Gallagher before Oasis shot to fame, and the maquette used to sculpt a bronze of John Lennon’s head, commissioned by TV prankster Jeremy Beadle.