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Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) [1] 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".
A consummate fusion of wit, humor, satire, honesty, and chaos: Warren Zevon’s Excitable Boy captures dark elements of American culture with uncanny insight.
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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Sep 7, 2018 · By Steven Hyden Sep 7, 2018, 5:40am EDT. Elias Stein/Getty Images. 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 ...
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- Desperadoes Under The Eaves (1976) Zevon’s songs were usually drawn from his own life and observations. “I realise how personal what I’m saying is, but I don’t know any other way of doing it.
- Keep Me In Your Heart (2003) As Zevon was dying he spent a lot of time during his illness working in a home studio on his final album, The Wind. Its closing song, Keep Me In Your Heart, was co-written with Jorge Calderón and featured the brilliant veteran drummer Jim Keltner, who remembered the emotionally-charged atmosphere when it came to recording the song.
- Accidentally Like A Martyr (1978) Zevon’s ex-wife Crystal said that when she was compiling the book I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, she was shocked by “the degree of excess, the degree of torment, the degree of obsession” revealed in the story of the musician’s personal life.
- Excitable Boy (1978) “We had to be truly twisted to get Warren, and I mean that in a good way,” said singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt. She could easily have been talking about his dark masterpiece Excitable Boy.
Sep 8, 2003 · September 8, 2003. A year after learning he had an inoperable form of lung cancer — and more than twenty-five years after he began obsessing over death in song — Warren Zevon passed away in his...
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Sep 8, 2003 · Sept. 8, 2003. Warren Zevon, a singer and songwriter who came up with hard-boiled stories and tender confessions of love, died on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 56. The cause was...
