Rising from New York's legendary punk scene in the mid-70s, Mink DeVille were a
unique collision of rockabilly attitude, soulful doo-wop romance and Latin
flourish, but could never quite fit in or find the success enjoyed by their
peers The Ramones, Talking Heads or Television.
Front man Willy DeVille had originally run away from home as a teenager and
learned his trade by hanging out in Greenwich Village, New York in the
late-1960s, before wandering to London and San Francisco in search of a break.
Back in New York in 1975 he put together Mink DeVille, who became the regular ...