The song was later covered by Mark Ronson, with lead vocals provided by Amy Winehouse, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart in 2007.

In an interview with The Scotsman in May 2008, lead singer Dave McCabe described the writing process of the song: "I could tell you I was inspired by gazing out across the Mersey or walking past Macca's old house, but the truth is I got the idea in a cab on the way to my mum's.

[3] In an interview with Vice magazine in June 2019, the subject of the song was revealed to be celebrity makeup artist Valerie Star.

Both the original and the Mark Ronson version featured in British soap opera Emmerdale during the wedding of Eric and Val Pollard in 2008.

Released as the album's third single on 15 October 2007, the track was first performed by Winehouse on Jo Whiley's Live Lounge show on BBC Radio 1.

[14] Winehouse had previously recorded a slower-tempo version of the song, which appeared as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of Back to Black.

The song has been featured in 27 Dresses and Amy (2015), a documentary film biography of Winehouse, a U.S. advertisement for Amazon Echo,[15] and the demonstration launch video for the Google Nest Audio.

[16] After "Valerie" became a success in the summer of 2006, it found an unlikely fan in Amy Winehouse, who was invited to contribute to a new project with Mark Ronson.

[21] It shows Ronson and a group of jazz musicians playing the intro, halting when they notice that Winehouse is not present, then inviting a woman from the audience – an Amy fan sporting her famous beehive hairstyle – onto their stage to "sing" the song, soon joined by other similarly coiffed women, in the style of group karaoke, all lip synching to Winehouse's voice.

During the 100th episode of the series they redo the song as a duet with Santana and Brittany singing, backed up by the dancing of Mike and new New Directions member Jake Puckerman (Jacob Artist).

Singer Bruno Mars paid tribute to Winehouse by performing her version of the song at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards.