Famous Willy DeVille pics - by David Arnoff...

- Confidence to kill -

Three nice shots by David Arnoff. Profile: Born in Cleveland, raised in L.A., lives in London. No felony convictions thus far.

Shot Sounds | Music & Melancholy - Collected.
More photographs by David Arnoff from the music scenes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York at: www.david-arnoff.com

No Arnoff but nice indeed: Willy 1975. Is it a pizza? Is it an Italian Shoe? Is it underwear? No, it's... CREEM! More pretty rock-star pics here.

Sympathy for the DeVille

Source: Record Collector July 2012 nr 403 by Garth Cartwright © 2012

WILLY DeVILLE Stroll on! Was he the most underrated talent?
Are Spanish Stroll and his gigs at CBGB all you heard about Willy DeVille or his Mink-lined band? If so, you missed out. Garth Cartwright charts the troubled yet inspired journey of a singer who found life anything but a gentle amble.

The hotel was tucked away on Paris’s Left Bank, discreet and very chic. Entering the lounge area to wait on my interviewee I glance at a series of small, framed photos and note that they are of previous guests: Johnny Depp, Miles Davis and many a French celebrity. Obviously, those who stay here enjoy its intimacy and privacy – without an appointment there is no possibility of getting past reception.

My interviewee appears at the bottom of a staircase, a remarkably tall man with long black hair, pencil moustache and goatee. In summer 2005, Willy DeVille might seem a strange guest to be considered alongside the aforementioned superstars – in the UK he is remembered, if at all, as leader of Mink DeVille, the New York band who scored a 1977 hit with Spanish Stroll – yet in France DeVille was considered a rebel, a true star. As he strode towards me, wearing an outfit that may well have suited 18th-century Bourbon gatherings, I noticed he was limping and reliant on a walking stick. “Have you hurt yourself?” I asked, and DeVille groaned before describing a car crash in the mountains of New Mexico. “I wasn’t drunk,” he says, “but I was driving to a bar to get drunk. And then this pickup truck full of Mexicans came around a blind corner and hit me straight on. The … [You must be a subscriber to view the full article]


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Collecting things... from the DeVille vaults!

Were you also a fan who collected all kinds of stuff from your favorite band Mink DeVille?
Not only vinyl (singles/lp's) or celluloid (tapes) but also everything of Mink (Willy) DeVille on paper. Like newspaper clippings, promotional photographs, magazines, concert tickets and posters... Especially stuff from the early years 1976-1982 is now rare and very valuable. Collectors pay quite a lot at ebay and internet stores. Or rather, sellers asking quite a lot! (up to 75 dollars for a rare poster). A small selection from the internet collection in a brief photo gallery (most pieces are privately owned).

First some concert posters from the seventies including an original silk screened 100cm x 75cm gig poster from Thursday 22nd June 1978 for 'Hammersmith Odeon', London.
And a Paradiso Amsterdam (The Netherlands) concert poster designed by the late Martin Kaye in 1977. Also posters from Germany, Sweden and the USA.

A wonderful collection of concert posters of various artists from 1975 till 1982 is also shown at the Punk Poster Page

Concertposters and promo-sets

More concertposters

Advertisements and newspaper clippings - One of the ads says: "It's the first album by a New York new-wave band to do justice to the ethnic vitality of the city..."

Concert tickets and Willy signatures

Rolled (movie/dvd) posters and (framed) picture posters

Magazines - English, German, Italian, Dutch and from the USA.