Willy Willy death: Affligem lose most famous resident

Affligem With the death of Willy Lambregt (59), better known as Willy Willy, lose Affligem his best-known resident. The famous guitarist died yesterday in his home in the Bleregemstraat. Willy Willy was suffering from an incurable form of liver cancer. The cremation Saturday in an intimate circle. Wednesday following a ceremony in the crematorium in Aalst, belgium.

Willy Willy came in 2000 in the Affligemse borough of Hekelgem live. In Bleregem still, the most popular area of the village, a stone's throw from the famous abbey. The Scabs-guitarist sought for and found there the peace which he, in his previous residences, and Brussels Groot-Bijgaarden, not found. In an interview with our newspaper, he told me three years ago how much he lived here. “A great neighborhood”, she said. “Bleregem has the reputation that the people here famous can overdo it. The strawberries would be so large, that they have the houses to grow. But I am a social animal. I love that mentality. Every year it is here Bleregem Fair. If I don't have to occur, I'm going to drink a glass.”

Pints or liquor drank Willy for years not more. All the drink and drugs he had renounced. Only the packets of red Marlboro, and he could not say goodbye. “Partying and drinking is fun when you're young,” he said. “But if you realize that you need two days to have a hangover to recover, then the fun way.”

Willy Willy enjoyed enormous respect in the music world. He began as a guitarist at the Labour Adelt, the band of Marcel Vanthilt. In 1987 he wrote the hit " Just A Friend of Mine’ by Vaya Con Dios. Afterwards, he stepped over to The Scabs where he had his greatest successes are experienced. Willy lived for his music. Every week he went to the newsagent in search of specialized rockmagazines. At Gina Deneef of the dagbladhandel in Essene was Willy Willy child at home. “He was always on the lookout for a music magazine,” she says. “And if he books me not found, then he went to the shop of Patrick and Linda on the Brusselbaan in Hekelgem. Even there they knew him well.”