Blues by Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis, in his 63 years, does not want to part with the role of the hero of the coolest militants. In the remake of "Death Wish", he once again proved that he is still able to kick a couple of dozen asses, and neither the venerable age nor the evil tongues of critics stop him.
It turned out that in addition to the hurricane actions, the hero of our childhood is also passionate about music. Willis not only sings well, but also plays the blues on the harmonica so coolly that I want to howl at the Moon from his heart-breaking songs.
Before Bruce Willis became a world-famous film actor, he worked in a bar. In his spare time, the future John McClane entertained the audience with songs of his own composition - about unrequited love, frailty of being and other attributes of the "blues" life.
Since childhood, Willis wanted to go to Hollywood, but his acting talents were not impressive for any of the producers. During the day, he disappeared into the drama club, and after class went to the bar, where he delivered drinks to guests at night.
In the early eighties, fate brought him to an institution called "Cafe Central", where all the New York bohemians gathered. There is a nice guy, simple, but with a “golden heart,” quickly became familiar and became his own among the public.
One of the biographers Willis writes that he was riding around the bar on roller skates, dressed in bright parachute pants, a torn shirt, and with a bandage on his head. At the same time, he always sang something and joked, and when the work allowed, he played his harmonica.
Charismatic Willis began to be invited to the theaters and filmed in commercials. The quick rise of his career did not affect his passion for music - Bruce Willis and his band The Accelerators are still occasionally performing at various charity concerts.
The first success of the career for Willis was the pseudo-documentary film "The Return of Bruno", where he performed the role of the never-existing singer Bruno Radolini. Writing an r’n’b-style record "Bruce Willis: The Return of Bruno" in 1987, the future action movie hero hit the top ten of Billboard magazine with the song Respect Yourself.
Two years later, the second album was released with the truly Nietzschean title "If It Don’t Kill You, It Just Makes You Strong", where Johnny and Edgar Winter and Robben Ford were lit. The record did not become popular, but in the Hollywood crowd, Willis got the status of a tough musician who masterfully mastered his lip hormone.
Unfortunately, Bruce Willis did not record more albums, but occasionally appeared in musical collaborations with other famous artists. Therefore, in 2004, he performed with “accelerators” at a concert in memory of Ray Charles, where he played with B. B. King.
In the films, he also sings, but rarely does it. Just imagine how much stronger Die would turn out if John McClane played the harmonica in the intervals between the extermination of terrorists. Perhaps "Yippie-Kai-Yay, Motherfucker" the only thing that could pull the ungodly sequels from the bottom of gloom and grace.
Today, Willis appears more often in bad films than good ones, but this is not a reason to poison him. The best thing you can do is turn on his blues, splash your bourbon and enjoy the coolness of "Die Hard", tearing your soul not with dull movie scenes, but with hysterical songs with wild howling of a harmonica.