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    Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer and songwriter. His most famous compositions include " Werewolves of London ", " Lawyers, Guns and Money ", and " Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner ".

  3. May 8, 2024 · Warren Zevon (born January 24, 1947, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died September 7, 2003, Los Angeles, California) was an American singer-songwriter whose poetic rock songs—by turns hard-boiled, humorous, tough, and tender—were acclaimed by critics and much admired by other songwriters.

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  4. Sep 9, 2018 · Born Warren William Zevon, January 24, 1947, in Chicago, IL; died of lung cancer, September 7, 2003, in Los Angeles, CA. Singer and songwriter. Acclaimed musician Warren Zevon was best known for his 1978 hit "Werewolves of London," but the wry humor and tumbling piano riffs in it were hallmarks of many of his other songs, which went largely ...

  5. May 1, 2007 · By Neal Charnoff | May 1, 2007. 00:00 | 00:00. MP3. Rock fans remember the late Warren Zevon as the literate, eccentric composer of offbeat songs like “Werewolves of London”. Although Zevon was idolized by other singer-songwriters, he was never commercially successful. His early years were marked by excessive behavior and alcoholism.

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  6. Mini Bio. The son of a gangster who was a Russian Jewish immigrant, and a Mormon Midwestern mother of English descent, Warren Zevon overcame a difficult childhood and an ill-fated start as a folk-rock-singer in the 1960s to establish himself as one of the most offbeat and intelligent singer-songwriters in the mid-1970s.

    • January 24, 1947
    • September 7, 2003
  7. May 6, 2008 · The portrait of Warren Zevon that results is both shocking and touching. Extreme alcoholism, drug use, sex addiction, spousal abuse, child neglect, and occupational backstabbing all rear their ugly heads in this warts-and-all biography. Zevon had obsessive compulsive disorder, which gave rise to a number of bizarre behaviors.

  8. Sep 7, 2018 · The late singer-songwriter has been gone for 15 years, but his life and career still aren’t any easier to make sense of: He was as gifted, haunted, and destructive as any musician from his...

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