Patricia Steur is practicing photography as a professional since 1980. She followed the life and career of Mink Deville / Willy Deville from up close. She made photographs of my all time favorite artist Willy Deville,for over 3 decades and has published a beautiful book on Willy, which i recently acquired after being on the search for it for many many years. In the book a DVD with some nice, never published Video’s. Here are the ones that are currently available on Youtube . The first i want to share with you is the very intimate Carmelita song he played for his friend Jack Nitzsche, who would die shortly after this recording (2000).
and in my opinion the second is even better: Willy playing “Heaven stood still”
Willy Deville and his acoustic trio live in Berlin 2002.
I had to share these because Willy’s music is beautiful , timeless and an almost everyday joy to listen. I hope you enjoy these too. I know, these are not books , but to return to the books…..i have a very nice book by Patricia Steur available on the many famous peoples she photographed available at http://www.ftn-books.com and Willy’s music is definitely great art.
