abstract:Michael Spillane, much better known as Mickey Spillane (July 13, 1934 – May 13, 1977), was an Irish-American mobster from Hell's Kitchen, New York City. Spillane, who was called the "last of the gentleman gangsters," was a marked contrast to the violent Westies mob members who succeeded him in Hell's Kitchen.
They seemed to have stepped out of a MickeySpillane novel as much as indie-rock, but on records they made after their respective bands dissolved, both men toned down both their pose and their music.