IN MEMORIAM: Mikey Wild

Sad to hear that Mikey Wild, "the Mayor of South Street," passed away this morning.

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IN MEMORIAM: Mikey Wild

POSTED: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 2:12 PM

Filed Under: In Memoriam | Music

Sad to hear that Mikey Wild, "the Mayor of South Street," passed away this morning. Sara Sherr wrote about him in City Paper back in 1998. The guy was punk before any of us were, and one of Philly's all-time-best colorful characters. There's a movement brewing to have a mural put up on South Street. His good friend and bandmate Ed Wilcox's 1997 documentary will spell it out for you just what we've lost. (Start with part one below.) Rest in peace, Mikey.

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:19 PM, 05/25/2011

Sincere condolences to Mikey Wild Delucca's family, intimate friends & associates. It's virtually impossible to have spent any time on South Street since at least the mid-to-late 1980's & not have had at least a casual encounter with Mikey. Alternating between an afronting rudeness to childlike charm with vitrol to spare on stage he'll not any time soon be forgotten. You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried. A larger than life lesson in overcoming disabilities, living your dream & never taking, 'no' as a suitable answer to anything really. Was on my way to South Philly later today to help move self styled 'rock chick' photographer, my former co-worker @ Philly Rock Guide & since I only learned of his lung cancer or his hospice care only yesterday was compelled to make a special visit with the Wild-man. Peter Stone Brown made a subtle but overt Facebook post that he'd passed & a call to Penn Medicine's Rittenhouse Hospice Division where I was told by phone that the outpouring of love for Mikey was no less uplifting, something that a hospice is not traditionally prepared for: friends who care, strangers who wanted to be there if only for a brief moment. Some played music. Heard that a Kenn Kweder tune was strummed - how fitting. Living like Mikey lived within our own defined parameters might just be the best trip of all. Thank you Mikey for just being Mikey Wild, for bumming cigarettes & a ride home more than once, for writing & screaming-out your infectious kooky & sometimes digging kinda deep in the soul songs, for your playfulness, wit & boisterousness to rattle us all like no-one before or to-come will ever quite muster. Remember where you are & what you're doing & how you find-out, a pause & bittersweet memory's of the man, the myth, the legendary Mikey Wild! RIP TTFN. - PM

— PaulMick

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