Willy DeVille: Tough But Tender
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 1 October 1977
SANDY ROBERTSON meets Willy DeVille and they discuss intellect versus emotion, James Cagney, Kim Fowley, The Belfast Gypsies, Tom Courtenay, James Dean, toughness, sensitivity, street sense, decadence, Nazis, Phil Spector, The Crystals, Phil Lynott, Ireland, Marlon Brando, Willy's dad, Picasso, Van Gogh, Bob Dylan, schizophrenia, Aleister Crowley, Dylan Thomas, poetry, school, rock n roll......
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