He was bad, you know. But the text message popped up last night on my mobile phone has arrived earlier than expected: "It 's a sad day for our music: Willy De Ville is dead." Words written by a friend, with sincere sorrow. Now I have the sea in front and mountains behind, holding a copy of the Republic, which formalizes the death between her fingers and a fragile connection to the Internet does not allow me to turn to the Web There is too little to run, just the memory .
Wille De Ville those heels landing on my desk at the Savoy (no longer there, it was the early eighties New York) rattling the glasses. And 'that look sharp that I reached by many Italian stages (there so we really enjoyed, good Willy!). And 'those records that have flirted with punk and with rhythm and blues ("Coup De Grace" who did not have troubles are now on Amazon) that have grazed the pop ("Miracle" with Mark Knopfler: What a beauty!) And walked the streets of New Orleans. And 'those corners of Manhattan where they speak English, they happen all the colors and the girls named Rosita walk to the beat of Tito Puente.
's a music written with love, even with "heart and soul, wherever he was the studio where it was produced. Willy De Ville is in those tight jackets era Mink De Ville (his band, almost a rehearsal room with E Street Band to Alphabet City in New Jersey instead) and some sloppiness in the 'pirate in recent years. E '"Maybe Tomorrow", is "Could You Would You" is "Cadillac Walk", is "This Must Be The Night", is "Teardrops Must Fall" and "You Better Move On" is the best "Stand By Me" after those of Ben E. King (the original) and John Lennon. And 'I remember all these songs in any order and do I need to do for a long time. Because, as written by his press office, "Willy went to visit Jack Nitzsche and Johnny Thunders" (that is a wise sound mixer and another boy of rock'n'roll - see: New York Dolls). Right people to keep him company in the eternal silence that so quiet - we imagine - will not be.
Willy De Ville, who had only fifty-nine years - 59 as a good year for Cadillac - has spanned over thirty years of his career without ever leaving the closet too, without ceasing almost never the clothes but leaving the cult artist songs that only he pack knew that. Songs that have inflamed the Bottom Line or Olympia in the same manner in which flared when turned less money, the stages and festivals of the province. We enjoyed it so much, Willy, also for its uniqueness, and time will be greatly missed. There is little to add.
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