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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 ".
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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 · The late singer-songwriter was gifted, haunted, and destructive, but his life and career are still hard to untangle. Read about his influences, achievements, struggles, and legacy in this article by Steven Hyden.
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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.
Oct 28, 2022 · On October 30, 2002, a cancer-stricken Warren Zevon sang "Keep Me in Your Heart" on the 'Late Show With David Letterman'. Twenty years later, Letterman and more remember the gravitas and emotion of that stunning night.
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Jan 24, 2015 · Our list of the Top 10 Warren Zevon Songs includes tracks from that 1976 album (which you might as well call his proper debut) to The Wind, a terrific final LP released just weeks before he...
