Willy Deville : il est mort d'un cancer du pancréas - Réactualisé-
C'est une triste nouvelle. Willy Deville nous a quittés à l'âge de 55 ans, dans la nuit du 6 au 7 août dans un hôpital de New York. Il souffrait d'un cancer du pancréas.
Son cancer du pancréas avait été diagnostiqué en juin dernier. Sa compagne Nina, avait récemment révélé que Willy Deville avait toujours un grave problème d'addiction à la drogue.
Il s'était fait connaître dans les années 70 avec son groupe Mink DeVille issu de la scène punk new-yorkaise. En 1987, Willy DeVille poursuit sa carrière en solo et sort l'album «Miracle», qu'il signe au côté du chanteur de Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler. En 1992, il signe "Backstreets of Desire" où figure sa reprise de "Hey Joe", un tube mondial. Son dernier album studio "Pistola" était sorti en 2008.
NUEVA YORK (AP).— Willy DeVille, cantante fundador del grupo punk Mink DeVille, murió en la ciudad de Nueva York. Tenía 58 años.
La publicista Carol Kaye dijo que el músico murió de un cáncer de páncreas. Falleció la noche del jueves en el Hospital Cabrini.
El mundo del rock ha perdido "a otro de sus influyentes pioneros", dijo Kaye.
Mink DeVille apareció en los años 70 en el legendario club CBGB del Greenwich Village de Manhattan. Fue considerado uno de los grupos más originales de la escena punk neoyorquina.
Su álbum de 1977 Cabretta incluyó el tema Spanish Stroll, que llegó a estar en el Top 20 hit del Reino Unido.
Willy DeVille fue conocido por su mezcla de ritmos R&B, blues, Dixieland y French Cajun.
NUEVA YORK (AP).— Willy DeVille, cantante fundador del grupo punk Mink DeVille, murió en la ciudad de Nueva York. Tenía 58 años.
La publicista Carol Kaye dijo que el músico murió de un cáncer de páncreas. Falleció la noche del jueves en el Hospital Cabrini.
El mundo del rock ha perdido "a otro de sus influyentes pioneros", dijo Kaye.
Mink DeVille apareció en los años 70 en el legendario club CBGB del Greenwich Village de Manhattan. Fue considerado uno de los grupos más originales de la escena punk neoyorquina.
Su álbum de 1977 Cabretta incluyó el tema Spanish Stroll, que llegó a estar en el Top 20 hit del Reino Unido.
Willy DeVille fue conocido por su mezcla de ritmos R&B, blues, Dixieland y French Cajun.
(JUST FOUND OUT FROM MY DAILYMOTION SITE COMMENTS) SERIOUSLY, IF YOU DON'T LIKE WILLIE DEVILLE, YOU MIGHT WANT TO MAKE YOURSELF SCARCE FOR A WHILE.
Hit de ayer: Spanish Stroll
Fallece Willie DeVille a los 53 años de edad, probablemente el rockero que más y mejor supo acercar la cultura hispana a los clásicos norteamericanos.
Hoy ha muerto Willie DeVille. Hace un mes le detectaron un cáncer de páncreas que se lo ha llevado enseguida. Willie será recordado en los noticiarios por su latinizada versión del ‘Hey Joe’ de Hendrix y ese ‘Demasiado Corazón’ que la semana que viene muchos escucharéis tocar por las orquestas de vuestros pueblos y barrios, en las fiestas del día 15 de agosto. Pero Willie no sólo era ese. DeVille era un tipo excesivo, que se había metido todo lo que había caído en sus manos, que tuvo los cojones de reivindicar la tradición norteamericana en el CBGB en 1976, entre unos emergentes Ramones, Blondie y Television.
Mink DeVille se llamaba su banda, en la que se postuló como un Lou Reed latino, que cantaba sobre las calles del Lower East Side, sobre putas y chulos latinos, coches y trapicheos, acercando como nadie el rock and roll y el blues clásico a la tradición de los países centroamericanos. Sus primeros discos contaron con las prestigiosas colaboraciones de genios como Jack Nitzsche, Dr. John, Elvis Costello o Nick Lowe. Jagger se declaró fan de su tema ‘Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl’ y temas como ‘Cadillac Walk’, ‘She’s So Tough’ o la maravillosa ‘Just Your Friends’ son clásicos absolutos del Sonido New Jersey, acuñado para Bruce Springsteen. Su carrera con Mink DeVille continuó hasta 1986, año a partir del cual iniciaría su carrera en solitario, editando su último disco en 2004. Nunca obtuvo tanto éxito en Estados Unidos como en Europa, donde es muy querido y respetado, especialmente en Francia por su idilio con la ciudad de París, en la que pasó largas temporadas.
‘Spanish Stroll’ es simplemente eso, un paseo español, un paseo por el barrio hispano del Village en el que se crió DeVille, donde se cruza con chicas que le mangonean, que le engatusan para robarle la tele, la radio y el coche, ante la mirada de chulos que se vanaglorian de las pipas que llevan en el bolsillo interior de sus chaquetas y de haberse mudado a los barrios del Upper, con los latinos respetables como Tito Puente o Ray Barretto. Un ‘Walk On The Wild Side’ latino. Disfrutad de esta rabiosa versión en vivo. Hasta siempre, Willie.
Prescription Drug Abuse: Xanax Abuse, Oxycontin Abuse, Percocet Abuse
Prescription Drug Abuse-What Are Depressants?
Depressants are a group of drugs that depress the central nervous system. Taken as prescribed, depressants often help relieve anxiety, tension, insomnia, muscle spasms, and irritability. When abused, like many other drugs, they are addictive. The most common depressants are alcohol, barbiturates, tranquilizers, rohypnol, placidly, xanax and valium. The most common depressant is alcohol. People use alcohol to relax, to ease tension, and to help them forget their problems. It's also legal to all adults. This probably explains why alcohol is the most commonly abused of all drugs.
Prescription Drugs- What Are The Effects Of Depressants?
Doctors to relieve anxiety or treat insomnia prescribe barbiturates, sedatives, and tranquilizers. Popularly known as downers, these drugs depress the activity of the brain and can be helpful when taken under medical supervision. In excessive amounts their effects are similar to alcohol intoxication, yet they can be extremely dangerous. An overdose of depressants causes slurred speech, impaired coordination, and irregular breathing. A heavy overdose can result in muscle spasms, vomiting, convulsions, unconsciousness, and death. Continued use may lead to dependence and increased tolerance. Users need larger and larger doses to get the same effect, which brings them, continually closer to the fatal dose. Overdose is more likely to occur when users mix depressants with alcohol. Users become disoriented, confused, and can't remember how much they took. The list of people who have died from depressants and alcohol is long. A few of the better known are Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, and Janis Joplin.
What Are Barbiturates?
More than 2,500 varieties of barbiturates exist. Doctors prescribe barbiturates to treat anxiety, agitation, and insomnia, and give them to patients before surgery to make them drowsy. Some barbiturates help control medical conditions such as high blood pressure, epilepsy, and ulcers. However, barbiturates are also sold in the illegal drug market with street names like "downers" and "goof balls." People under the influence of barbiturates behave as if they are drunk on alcohol. They lose their inhibitions and show marked changes in their behavior. In many individuals, side effects include nausea, nervousness, rash, and diarrhea. People on barbiturates may have difficulty thinking and making decisions; they may be emotionally unstable, lack coordination, be disoriented, and have slurred speech.
What Are Tranquilizers? Tranquilizers are drugs that calm people with paranoia or nervous disorders. As an addictive drug, however, no substance other than alcohol has had a greater negative effect on the public. Until the 1940s, people relied on alcohol to reduce anxiety and to relax. Beginning in 1951, they turned to tranquilizers. Milton, an early tranquilizer, was first used as a muscle relaxer, then as a tension reliever. In 1960, a new tranquilizer came on the market benzodiazepine. Today Benzodiazepine is sold under the names Xanax, Adivan, Klonopine, Valium and Librium. "Benzo's" quickly became the primary tranquilizer of choice.
What Is Chloral Hydrate?
Chloral Hydrate, or "knock out drops," is a drug slipped into a drink to make a person unconscious. Combining chloral hydrate and alcohol creates what is known as a "Mickey Finn." Chloral hydrate takes effect in about 30 minutes. It irritates the stomach lining, especially if taken repeatedly. Long-term use of large doses of the drug causes physical dependence.
What Is Rohypnol?
Primarily used by partygoers and nightclub attendees, Rohypnol, or "Roofie," "Circles," "Rope," "Forget Pill," and "R-Z," is sometimes slipped into a drink to make a person unconscious much like the fabled "Mickey Finn." Rohypnol is smuggled into the United States from other countries, where it is used to treat insomnia, anxiety, convulsions and muscle tension. It can cause drowsiness, dizziness, loss of coordination, memory loss and an upset stomach. At higher doses it causes coma, respiratory depression and death.
What Is Placidyl and Quaalude?
Placidyl is a short-term sedative hypnotic drug. It causes side effects such as facial numbness, blurred vision, nausea, dizziness, gastric problems, and skin rashes. Combined with alcohol, Placidyl can kill. Quaalude or methaqualone, is a barbiturate-like, sedative-hypnotic drug. Quaalude was first introduced as an anti-malaria drug in the 1950s. After years of abuse, Quaalude distribution and prescriptions became strictly controlled. Because of adverse publicity, methaqualone has not been manufactured in the United States since 1985, though large amounts are still illegally imported. Severe overdoses cause delirium, convulsions and seizures.
Is It Dangerous To Mix Depressants With Other Drugs?
Drug abuse is a vicious cycle. Users often take drugs to counter the effect of other drugs they are taking. But, taken in combination with alcohol or other drugs, depressants can kill. Because of their anti-depressant effects, cocaine users take depressants to reduce the depression at the end of a binge. Drug users commonly are cross-addicted. Alcoholics use depressants to reduce the withdrawal from alcohol. Alcoholics also use depressants to become intoxicated, without the associated odor of alcohol. Mixing depressants and alcohol can depress the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, often with deadly consequences. Because knowledge of this dangerous drug interaction is common, many people attempt suicide by taking high doses of depressants with alcohol. Prescription drug abuse, such as Xanax or Oxycontin abuse, can be deadly.
