Oh Allee fucking Willis

Oh Allee, my sweet Puddin’ where did you go? The world fell away on Tuesday, never to be the same again. You made this planet home. You gave life to everything you touched. You brought joy to more people than you’ll ever know. You changed EVERYTHING for the better. It was just a few days ago we were planning our next escapade. Finally we had found the perfect collaboration, the perfect sum of our parts. You were so excited as since the first moment we collided you insisted we had to create something together but nothing could beat just being with you. Just “Being” with my sweet Allee. That was our best creation. One minute with you was a lifetime. You gave me everything. You changed my world. In the last month I kept on feeling like I had to tell you how important you were to me. I’m so happy we spent your 72nd birthday together and you got chocolate cake and ice cream all over my sweater.  

The idea of a life without you in it is too impossible to bear. Un-fucking-believable as you’d say. I ADORE you with every inch of this completely broken heart 💔

You would have been so delighted (and completely amazed) by this global press reception… thank Fuck the world has finally started to catch up with you:

New York Times, Guardian, Rolling Stone, NPR, Billboard, Le Monde, Washington Post, BBC News, LA Times, USA Today, CNN, Variety…

Photos by Ross Harris

Beatie Wolfe w/ Allee Willis — Orange Juice for the Ears (07.26.19)

ep.08 Art: Beatie Wolfe interviews Grammy winning songwriter Allee Willis about penning some of the world's greatest songs, including "September" by Earth Wind & Fire, and how she ended up on Russia's most wanted list. Listen again to this show that takes you from dancing sea lions to Beverly Hills Cop via the soul of Detroit.

Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across Space, Science, Art, Health, Film & Technology by talking to the leading luminaries in each field from Nobel Prize winners to multi-platinum producers and hearing the music that has most impacted them, their “Orange Juice for the Ears”. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN Women role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.

Allee Willis’ Orange Juice for the Ears

• First song that imprinted? “Bye Bye Baby” by Mary Wells

• First album that shaped who you are? Where Did Our Love Go by The Supremes - track played “Where Did Our Love Go”

• The music you would send into Space? “Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get” by The Dramatics

• The song you would have at your memorial? “September” by Earth, Wind & Fire

• The album you would pass onto your kids? New York Tendaberry by Laura Nyro - track played “Save the Country”

The show opens with “(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding, a track Beatie Wolfe most associates with Allee Willis as Allee was sitting on the dock of the bay when Redding's plane crashed.

Listen again to episode 08 on LA’s legendary radio station that airs globally… HERE