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Sep 7, 2018 · His Sh*t’s F***ed Up: The Complicated Legacy of Warren Zevon. 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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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".
May 4, 2023 · The obvious starting point for neophytes is 1976’s Warren Zevon, his breakthrough second LP. Along with including several of his most beloved songs, it’s also the tone setter for the rest of ...
- Steven Hyden
I really like Warren Zevon, I think that a good reason why he’s sort of a songwriter’s songwriter is because he tends to somewhat hide his acerbic wit and dark humor under very catchy sounding pop songs, which makes a lot of listeners dismiss him at first glance.
- He Was A Songwriter's Songwriter
- His Famous Friends Never Stole His Spotlight
- There Are Hidden Gems on All of His Albums
- He Handled His Terminal Cancer with Dignity and Humor
- He Made One of The All-Time Great Albums About Death
Warren Zevon's career dates back to the No. 65 single "Follow Me" in 1966 as part of the duo Lyme & Cybelle. He released his first solo album, Wanted Dead or Alive, in 1970 but it wasn't until 1976 with the arrival of his second self-titled LP that most people started paying attention. By then, he was a favorite singer-songwriter of other singer-so...
... because they knew they were mere guests on his albums. Zevon had earned the respect of such luminaries as Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt and members of Eagles long before royalty checks started rolling in for albums like Excitable Boy. And all of them were eager to appear on his records. In addition to the artists above, Zevon's albums included...
Even after his commercial prospects dwindled over the years – there were only two Top 100 singles in his career and one Top 10 LP – Zevon's albums continued to be filled with the sharp and funny songwriting that made him an FM radio favorite during the second half of the '70s. Look for "Detox Mansion" and "Splendid Isolation" in the '80s, "Mr. Bad ...
In 2002, Zevon was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. That year he made the last of his dozen-plus appearances on David Letterman's TV shows and talked about life and death with candid humor. "I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years," Zevon said. "It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off." The W...
Zevon started work on his last LP soon after he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Don Henley, Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen helped on a set of songs – mostly original but with a cover of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" – that, directly and indirectly, addressed his mortality: "Dirty Life and Times," "Disorder in the House," "Please Stay." H...
- Michael Gallucci
Jan 24, 2021 · The best Warren Zevon songs reveal the songwriter – ‘a moralist in cynic’s clothing’ – to have been one of the most gifted talents in music.
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Apr 2, 2023 · Today, we revisit Warren Zevon’s 1976 breakthrough, an unforgettable collection of rock songs as short stories set in a seedy, mythological American West.
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