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Of all the things that could be, Alfonso Ussía, Alfonso Ussía's youngest son, is quite simply the guy who knows the most about Antonio Vega. Neither father, nor composer, nor writer, nor apartment salesman, nor editor. He twists his head, puts on a junkie voice, stares into space. Vibrate in the environment a phrase that is enchanted.

Of course I smoked horse.

He has sold three editions of

Watt

with his publisher Coba Fina, "almost five thousand copies", the book in which he recounts the adventures he lived alongside the myth of the song, with which he worked as an assistant - "his pipe" - since he was 20 years. Supporter, driver, friend, confidant:

«The spell is broken when you realize that he is more human than you. There are things that you do not tolerate and he takes them out. How is it possible to do this? I only had my cell phone and his mother's in storage. I am the person who has spent the most time observing Antonio Vega »

or Polo Targo, the name with which he refers to the memoirs disguised as a novel where he recounts the years in which they did not separate. "He is not Antonio Vega because he has given me everything. A

fraternal

thing

the other.

With him I discovered the hell of Las Barranquillas, but if everything was thrown away by drugs, it would be staining my career and my work and my effort.

I want to have some legitimacy to talk about literature. "

-The reader recognizes Antonio Vega.

-I leave clues.

The girl from yesterday

is

The Girl on the Train

.

-Then?

- It would probably be another job.

It wouldn't be called

Watt

.

It would not be a novel.

To me, he was watt, a turkey that was pure electricity.

However, "there is no fiction" in this novel. Everything that happens is true. You can use imagination but not so much », limits the genre. Antonio Vega, then, went practically every day to Las Barranquillas to buy heroin. "I needed to smoke it every three hours, you know."

He owed 30,000 euros to the Gordos, "the worst clan in Europe."

He had more than just trust with drug addicts. "The Charo in the book was his girlfriend, La Queca."

And "he was a genius" sums up Ussía

. «I take great care of the character. The book could have been much more morbid, to some degree eschatological.

Antonio was a chicken that couldn't stand up straight

. Some days he looked like an old lady with long hair and another day he had short hair and he looked like a great guy. It worked by peaks ». Of course.

The first trips to the town were made in the car that Ussía borrowed from her mother. “They discovered that I was working with him when they found a bag with four pieces of paper. It was all wild. The same he paid me 4,000 euros one month and the other 600. I could go without eating for four days and suddenly I wanted to have dinner at the Burger King.

One day I was so scared in a shack that I peed and another day I heard Paco de Lucía call him teacher »

.

They were together until he was 24 years old.

Later, he worked at EMI, the record company.

«With the money from the dismissal, I set up another record company and a publishing house

.

I had up to 11 employees.

I asked for two lines of credit to pay the

pelle

».

He paid the debts working as a commercial in the real estate Gilmar.

“Every day I took a little cash to the bank.

2,000 euros or so.

I was number one of all sellers.

"My eyes got dirty"

And now he dedicates himself to writing, to self-publishing, "he had signed with Almuzara and Anagrama", and to speak of Antonio Vega, his specialty.

«He dirtied my eyes. Pérez Reverte was in the war

. Me with him. At his side I realized that he had no talent. I wanted to compose, to play. Antonio Vega liked the way he wrote. He was very kind to tell you that something was not right, that you were not good at it. Because of being with him, I dropped out of Sound Engineering. It was much more interesting than finishing it. We were both more equal than it might seem. He wasn't just a junkie with me. We came from similar cultures. We could be quiet for hours.

And I never judged him. It was assumed. It wasn't my league.

Talk about travel.

"We went to Israel, to play for 40,000 bucks at a millionaire's wedding,

and he hid the drug in another assistant's backpack."

Or the day he gave a concert in Alcalá Meco.

«He bought five cartons of tobacco.

He hid ten papers.

Released the packages to the public.

While he sang

My Recreation Site,

the lucky ones shouted at him 'Antonio, we love you!' ».

Or of its physical decay.

As he tried to start his Harley, he caught his breath.

It happened two weeks before he was admitted

.

In the end, he had deficiencies in his bony.

Or the composition process.

“I could spend four or five hours touching the same base.

I was thinking in French.

He wrote in French.

He studied at the Liceo.

When it came to composing, Antonio Vega was bothered by Spanish ».

Womanizer?

The relationship with Carlos, Antonio Vega's brother, “has been clouded by the book.

I wanted him to talk only about music, not drugs.

What the hell is he going to tell me, if I barely saw him in four years.

They put a gun on me in Las Barranquillas.

He took me to hell with his mother, Mari Luz ».

Alfonso reveals what the singer-songwriter's real problem was.

«The aunts.

The first peak he got because he was in love.

Antonio got hung up on Carmen.

Then came Teresa, Marga and La Queca.

He met Marga at Universal.

In six years, she was dead from heroin.

He never went to visit her in the hospital.

He became jealous.

I wonder how it was possible that he had that sensitivity and at the same time was so childish.

What is a womanizer going to be.

He took one and clung to it until it was exhausted.

The character was much more of a son of a bitch than I am telling.

-What about the myth about its nightlife?

-I was super lonely.

In the 80s too.

Nothing came out: it was a lie.

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