We report this like it's major news, because it sort of is. You can never guarantee that Amy Winehouse is gonna make it to the next celebrity news cycle.

The troubled Back to Black singer was spotted out in London last night after spending a few days in a clinic (of the rehab variety) for a "chest infection."

Girl actually appears lucid in the photo below, taken right as she was retrieved from the facility by her father, Mitch Winehouse, and pal, Blake Wood ...

DATE WITH DEATH: Amy Winehouse looks poised to survive 2008, which would defy expectations from our site. 2009 is a different story, though, especially when and if Blake Fielder-Civil gets released from prison. Hold onto your effing hats then.