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Willy DeVille
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Willy DeVille, born William Paul Borsey Jr., was an American singer/songwriter and actor. During his thirty-five-year career, first with his band Mink DeVille (1974–1986) and later on his own, Deville created original songs rooted in traditional American musical styles.
A fourteen year old kid has just settled in on the roof of a building on MacDougal Street. We’re in the early sixties, New York. The West Village. Sounds of the raucous and throaty voice of Fred Neil, of Bob Dylan's unbridled folk hymns and of the electroshock guitar of Jimi Hendrix waft out of the clubs on the street. And the kid living on the roof, he takes it all in. Willy DeVille's introduction to music contains within …
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Willy DeVille, born William Paul Borsey Jr., was an American singer/songwriter and actor. During his thirty-five-year career, first with his band Mink DeVille (1974–1986) and later on his own, Deville created original songs rooted in traditional American musical styles. A fourteen year old kid has just settled in on the roof of a building on MacDougal Street. We’re in the early sixties, New York. The West Village. Sounds of the raucous and throaty voice of Fred Neil, of Bob Dylan's unbridled folk hymns and of the electroshock guitar of Jimi Hendrix waft out of the clubs on the street. And the kid living on the roof, he takes it all in. Willy DeVille's introduction to music contains within it the true and complete character of an urban tale.
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Willy DeVille's Filmography
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Heaven Stood Still: The Incarnations of Willy DeVille
as Self (archive footage)
Mink DeVille: Live at Montreux 1982
as Self
Willy DeVille: Live in the Lowlands
as Self
Willy DeVille: The Berlin Concerts
as Self
Born to Lose: The Last Rock and Roll Movie
as Self
Cypress Edge
as Alfred Waxman
Beautiful Losers
as Self
Bullet
as Willy Lookout
Homeboy
as Moe's bodyguard
Va Banque
as Hustler