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- Warren Zevon was a restless, sardonic genius. Born on 24 January 1947, he came to embody the dark side of the music industry’s drinking and drug excesses in the 70s. His lasting legacy is not his wild life, though; as the best Warren Zevon songs prove, it is as one of the most gifted songwriters in modern music.
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Sep 7, 2018 · By the time his friend Jackson Browne helped to finagle a record contract from David Geffen’s Asylum Records in the mid-’70s, Zevon was a full-blown alcoholic convinced that genius was a ...
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Jan 24, 2021 · Warren Zevon was a restless, sardonic genius. Born on 24 January 1947, he came to embody the dark side of the music industry’s drinking and drug excesses in the 70s. His lasting legacy is not his wild life, though; as the best Warren Zevon songs prove, it is as one of the most gifted songwriters in modern music.
May 7, 2021 · Zevon, who was 55 at the time My Ride’s Here was made, was suffering from cancer and thinking about his own mortality. “I keep asking myself how I suddenly was thrust into the position of travel agent for death,” Zevon said after composing the album’s moving, sardonic title track with Muldoon.
Aug 22, 2022 · The latter, typical of Zevon's sardonic humor, has perhaps the most morbidly hilarious opening lyrics in all of rock: "Well, I went to the doctor/I said, 'I'm feeling kind of rough'/'Let me break it to you, son/Your s***'s f***ed up.'/I said, 'My s***'s f***ed up?/Well, I don't see how'/He said, 'The s*** that used to work/It won't work now.'"
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May 6, 2007 · “I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did,” the wild-man Southern California singer-songwriter Warren Zevon liked to brag in his abbreviated later years.
Warren Zevon (24 January 1947 – 7 September 2003) was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. He’s known best for his dark and outlandish sense of humor. Zevon’s life is a classic tale...
Sep 8, 2003 · Warren Zevon, a restless, sardonic bard who embodied the dark edge and excess of the famed singer-songwriter scene in 1970s Southern California, died after a battle with lung cancer. He was...
