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	Wesley Willis - Biography - AOL Music
		Wesley Willis was a schizophrenic street singer who built up a small cult following with his bizarre, three-chord rants about trivial everyday items, music, and people he knew.
		Willis was discovered singing on the streets of Chicago in the early '90s.
		Willis was diagnosed with leukemia in 2002 and was recovering from surgery when he died at the age of 40 on August 21, 2003.~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
	music.aol.com /artist/wesley-willis/173306/biography (248 words)

	Alternative Tentacles - Bands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wesley will be greatly missed by all that had the privilege to know him, as well as the fans who have been fortunate enough to experience his genius.
		Wesley was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) at the end of 2002, and had to undergo emergency surgery on June 2nd to identify the source of, and to suppress internal bleeding.
		Wesley Willis stood 6'5" tall and weighed somewhere between 300 and 350 pounds prior to contracting leukemia, and liked to greet people with a headbutt.
	g.msn.com /9SE/1?http://www.alternativetentacles.com/bandinfo.php?band=wesleywillis&&DI=6244&IG=9f1ea5ebb10d4e4383c85abd0b81bb12&POS=4&CM=WPU&CE=4&CS=AWP&SR=4 (828 words)

	Rolling Stone : Wesley Willis Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		According to a press release from Alternative Tentacles, Willis was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia in late 2002 and underwent emergency surgery on June 2nd to identify the source of internal bleeding; the exact cause of his death has not yet been determined.
		Willis, who suffered from schizophrenia and was homeless for a time, was discovered singing on the streets of Chicago in the early Nineties.
		Instantly recognizable due to his size and a head of short, unkempt dreadlocks, Willis was known for greeting fans with a hearty headbutt, which left him with a permanent knot in the middle of his forehead.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5936380/wesley_willis_dies (583 words)

	MTV News \| Wesley Willis, Schizophrenic Street Singer, Dies
		Wesley Willis, one of the most unusual characters in music, died Thursday evening, most likely from heart failure.
		Willis, famous for greeting fans with a head butt, was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia at the end of 2002 and his health had been deteriorating rapidly.
		Willis, with his distinctive frame and forever-bruised forehead, was well-known on the streets of Chicago in the early 1990s for his off-key commentaries put to the tune of rudimentary Casio keyboard melodies.
	www.mtv.com /news/articles/1477150/20030822/willis_wesley.jhtml?headlines=true (658 words)

	Wesley Willis: Rock Star Of Champions by Wesley Joost
		Willis sings a lot of songs about concerts he has been to and how much he liked the band he saw.
		Willis is by no means a contemporary brooding rocker and the subject matter, focused on his day to day experiences is a breath of fresh air; as in U.S. Airways, about a nice plane trip he had.
		Willis compulsively shakes hands with everyone he meets, sometimes four or five times in the same conversation.
	www.sonic.net /~goblin/Wesley_Willis.html (1012 words)

	Wesley Willis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1992, Willis joined musicians from the city's alternative rock scene to form the hard rock band, The Wesley Willis Fiasco, which produced such future file sharing favorites as "Jesus is the Answer" and "Casper the Homosexual Friendly Ghost".
		Willis and his band the Fiasco were also featured in the 1997 Chicago rock documentary Out of the Loop as well as in the German documentary "Golden Lemons"[1] by Jörg Siepermann about the US tour of the German punk band "Die Goldenen Zitronen" (The Golden Lemons) together with Wesley Willis.
		Willis shared a split 7" record with the band The Frogs; Willis' song was "The Frogs" and The Frogs' song was "Wesley Willis".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wesley_Willis (2059 words)

	Wesley Willis -- music cult hero
		Wesley Willis, a 6-foot-4, 320-pound former homeless man who channeled his schizophrenia into an unlikely career as a rock music cult hero, died Thursday.
		Willis had attracted admirers in the punk world because of the cathartic effect his unfettered emotional outbursts combined with punk's raw energy.
		Willis grew up in Chicago's projects as one of 10 children of parents who had a violent relationship and separated when he was young.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/25/BA105390.DTL (327 words)

	YouTube - Wesley Willis Fiasco- I Can't Drive
		Wesley Willis was from my neighborhood in Chicago.
		I was an asshole." But to believe that, people would have to accept Wesley as a person with all the attendant emotions of a person.
		i remember the day that he died, i just told this one weird mother fucker at school who knew who he was "wesley willis is dead" so sad.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=M3xSW0nu8ns (318 words)

	(Waiting For The) Ghost Train - Music
		For years, Wesley spent his life homeless on the streets of Chicago, peddling his detailed ballpoint/felt-tip renderings of the city and riding around on the bus.
		Several years ago, Wesley began hearing voices in his head, and was diagnosed as having chronic schizophrenia.
		Wesley speaks (usually something like, "This is a rock and roll song that I'm gonna do for you"), then the song begins.
	members.tripod.com /~fritzh/Music/Wesley.htm (1334 words)

	Ink 19 :: The Wesley Willis Fiasco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As Willis would phrase it: the next band that I am going to review which is called W.W.F. I've always maintained that people who are deemed "crazy" or "psychopathic" by society all have some sort of vision or door to a truth or set of truths that the rest of society can not understand.
		This EP of rap-metal interspersed with Willis' trademark use of big business slogans (not to mention excerpts from The Clash and The Police) is by no means confined to the usual size of an EP, which leaves the listener unfulfilled and wanting for more.
		The manner in which Willis bluntly tells his stories, along with the characteristic style of his rapping, provides the ingredients that make this EP something you won't find anywhere else, and since this is only the second recording of the Wesley Willis Fiasco (compared to more than 40 solo recordings), it is a must-have!
	www.ink19.com /issues/april2001/wetInk/musicW/wesleyWillisFiasco.html (557 words)

	X-E - Wesley Willis: 350 Pound Schizophrenic Lyrical Messiah
		Willis was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1989 and instead of laying in a gutter and peeing on himself, he chose instead to share his inner demons with the world in a musical form.
		Wesley Willis is a pop culture barf bag belching out whatever he's collected through the years to anyone who cares to listen.
		Wesley's currently touring the country, and is likely to come to your town soon.
	www.x-entertainment.com /messages/396.html (726 words)

	Alo's Meds - Wesley Willis lyrics by Derek Nolin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wesley Willis weighed between 300 and 350 pounds
		Wesley Willis died of a rare form of leukemia
		Wesley Willis liked to write about whipping a donkey’s ass with a belt
	www.alosmeds.com /lyrics-wesleywillis.htm (66 words)

	Wesley Willis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Once Wesley Willis was simply a member of Chicago's legions of homeless, albeit a rather unique and imposing one -- a six-and-a-half foot, 350-pound fl man with a brow-to-chin knife scar and severe paranoid schizophrenia who rode the bus a lot and earned a little money selling his colorful line drawings of the city.
		In the early '90s Willis began writing songs and before long, pre-Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan collaborator Dale Meiners took him in, helped him exhibit his art, and introduced him to such local indie rock luminaries as Corgan, Urge Overkill's Nash Kato and Steve Albini.
		It's easy for Willis to achieve this volume of output because the songs are pretty much the same song, with the same melodies, rhythms, and chords (for the most part produced on Willis's Technics KN-2000.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/wesleywillis.html (444 words)

	World of cult favorite Wesley Willis weird
		Willis, a diagnosed schizophrenic, is a 6-foot-5, 300-whatever-pound Chicagoan who in the 1990s rose from homeless street performer to recording artist with a major-label contract.
		He was alone on stage, although the soundman, who also acts in a capacity as Willis' personal handler, would prompt Wesley with verbal cues and added effects such as theremin and a vocal pitch shifter to the otherwise monotonous performance.
		Because Willis' vocals are often an unintelligible yell, the best parts of the show were before songs, when he would identify them and when you could understand him.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/05/05/tem_wesleywillis05.html (406 words)

	Wesley Willis: The Daddy of Rock 'n' Roll (2003) (V) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		from Chicago, IL Wesley Willis was a very unique person from Chicago, who grew up poor in the notorious housing projects, was a victim of violent abuse, and developed a mental illness (he was diagnosed with schizophrenia).
		Perhaps the high point of his musical career was the forming of his noise-punk band "Wesley Willis Fiasco", which recorded on Jello Biafra's "Alternative Tentacles" label.
		Viewers get to experience first hand the kind of meanness Willis would have to endure from time to time, as well as see how kind people can be with someone who just needs a little extra bit of patience and understanding.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0387682 (408 words)

	Wesley Willis
		Wesley Willis is 6 foot 5, weighs between 300 and 350 pounds, and likes to greet people with a headbutt.
		Willis was "discovered", and is now an artist under Dino Paredes and the major record label American Recordings.
		We could feel the suspense mounting as Wesley Willis pushed his enormous bulk through the dense crowd and climbed the stairs to the stage.
	www.monzy.org /wesley (1122 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Loved Like a Milkshake - A Tribute to Wesley Willis
		The goal now (as it has always been) was to honor Wesley by showing the world that people from different musical backgrounds listen to his music and words.
		To be honest I had never heard of Wesley Willis, I just listened to this album out of curiosity and really liked most of the songs.
		Wesley Willis was a rock star to the max.
	archive.org /details/Loved_Like_a_Milkshake-A_Tribute_to_Wesley_Willis (924 words)

	Wesley Willis Art: December 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The detail is classic Wesley Willis-- look at the shapes of the buses, the markings on the buses and trucks.
		It seems that around this time Wesley started doing drawings from memory, and this was a favorite subject.
		Had a show of Wesley Willis art running at when he died.
	www.wesleywillisart.com /2003/12 (465 words)

	MilkandCookies - Wesley Willis
		Wesley was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) at the end of 2002.
		Shortly before signing a major label contract with American Records in 1996, Willis was profiled on MTV, which resulted in increased recognition in alternative rock circles.
		Wesley Willis is a schizophrenic street singer who built up a small cult following with his bizarre, three-chord rants about trivial everyday items, music, and people he knows.
	www.milkandcookies.com /keywords/wesleywillis (307 words)

	Amazon.com: Wesley Willis - Greatest Hits: Music: Wesley Willis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wesley Willis was a chronic schizophrenic from the streets of Chicago.
		It may not be right to laugh at the handicapped, but Wesley's music is very funny to me. This CD is a very well selected sampler of Wesley's music, chosen so that it doesn't get too repetitive, as some of his albums tend to do.
		I highly recommend this CD as the first Wesley Willis CD you should get, if you want to sample his work.
	www.amazon.com /Wesley-Willis-Greatest-Hits/dp/B000000FAL (815 words)

	Wesley Willis Dead At 40 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		August 25, 2003, 11:00 AM ET Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. Utterly unique singer/songwriter Wesley Willis passed away Aug. 21 at the age of 40 after a long battle with chronic myelogenous leukemia.
		Standing 6'5" tall and weighing more than 300 pounds, Willis was an imposing figure both in person and on the more than 50 albums released during his career.
		"Wesley will go down as one of the most unique songwriters and entertainment personalities in history," Biafra said in a statement.
	g.msn.com /9SE/1?http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1962336&&DI=6244&IG=9f1ea5ebb10d4e4383c85abd0b81bb12&POS=6&CM=WPU&CE=6&CS=AWP&SR=6 (519 words)

	William Wesley Willis
		Father of Merrill E. Willis was Stephen Willis.
		In the spring of 1847 Lt. Willis and all of those of the Mormon Battalion who had wintered in Pueblo, Colorad, made their way to the Great Salt Lake Valley.
		On account of always being on frontiers, after leaving the states, and being called to assist in building so many new places, he never gained much of this world's goods and died a comparatively poor man. He remained in Beaver until his death November 8, 1870.
	www.angelfire.com /ut2/kelly/genealogy/williamwesleywillisb1811.htm (769 words)

	Amazon.ca: V3 Greatest Hits: Music: Wesley Willis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The hardest workingman in show business is back with the third twisted installment of his best and most eye-popping flashes.
		Compiled by noted Wesley scholar Jello Biafra, Greatest Hits Volume 3 culls the chestnuts from dozens of self-produced Wesley CDs, to unreleased and very early classics hardly anyone knew existed.
		The CD is enhanced with never before seen footage of Wesley, exclusive photos, as well as his amazing drawings.
	www.amazon.ca /V3-Greatest-Hits-Wesley-Willis/dp/B0000DEQLZ (274 words)

	Cornerstone Recording Arts Society - Artists - Wesley Willis Fiasco
		Cornerstone Recording Arts Society - Artists - Wesley Willis Fiasco
		However, it didn't result in good sales and both of his American Records of 1996 —; Fabian Roadwarrior (released in August) and Feel the Power (released in October) — were flops.
		Willis was diagnosed with leukemia in 2002 and was recovering from surgery when he died at the age of 40 on August 21, 2003.
	www.cornerstoneras.com /wesleywillis (211 words)

	Friendster - Wesley Willis! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"my name is wesley willis, i'm from chicago illinois, i like to make drawings of the city of chicago, and i like to write..."
		Wesley Willis sat in my room, in the
		Wesley, I opened for you once in a
	www.friendster.com /99684 (128 words)

	Loved Like a Milkshake: A Tribute to Wesley Willis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When we recorded our "Under the Limbo Stick" album in '96 we listened to Wesley during set up.
		We gave him a thanks in the record with a request for him to write a song about us.
		It was the first time we've recorded together in over three years and has rekindled a fire in us.
	wesleytribute.org /wesley/contributors/eatAtJoes.html (235 words)

	Cornerstone Recording Arts Society - Store - Wesley Willis Fiasco: Live EP
		Pure rock and roll at it's finest, it's loud, it's rockin, and then you got Wesley, so you know this album is going to rule.
		Tons of hits and loads of Wesley's wild shenanigans.
		This album will be in your CD player for months to come...
	www.cornerstoneras.com /wesleywillis/pf_l_cd.php (81 words)

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