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A Quiet Normal Life: The Best Of Warren Zevon Album Werewolves Of London Excitable Boy Play It All Night Long Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner The Envoy Desperados Under The Eaves Johnny Strikes Up The Band Lawyers, Guns And Money Poor, Poor Pitiful Me Accidentally Like A Martyr Looking For The Next Best Thing	Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School Album Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School A Certain Girl Jungle Work Empty-Handed Heart Interlude No. 1 Play It All Night Long Jeannie Needs A Shooter Interlude No. 2 Bill Lee Bed of Coals Wild Age
Excitable Boy Album Johnny Strikes Up The Band Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner Excitable Boy Werewolves Of London Accidentally Like A Martyr Nighttime In The Switching Yard Veracruz Tenderness On The Block Lawyers, Guns And Money	Genius: The Best Of Warren Zevon Album Poor, Poor Pitiful Me The French Inhaler Carmelita Hasten Down The Wind Werewolves Of London Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner Excitable Boy Lawyers, Guns And Money Interlude No. 1 / Play It All Night Long A Certain Girl Looking For The Next Best Thing Detox Mansion Reconsider Me Boom Boom Mancini Splendid Isolation Raspberry Beret Searching For A Heart Mr. Bad Example Mutineer I Was In The House When The House Burned Down Genius
Hindu Love Gods Album Crosscut Saw Junko Pardner Mannish Boy Wang Dang Doodle Battleship Chains Vigilante Man	Learning to Flinch Album Boom Boom Mancini Excitable Boy Hasten Down The Wind Jungle Work Lawyers, Guns And Money Mr. Bad Example Piano Fighter Play It All Night Long Poor, Poor Pitiful Me Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner Searching For A Heart Splendid Isolation The French Inhaler The Indifference of Heaven Werewolves Of London Worrier King
Mr. Bad Example Album Finishing Touches Suzie Lightning Model Citizen Angel Dressed In Black Mr. Bad Example Renegade Heartache Spoken Here Quite Ugly One Morning Searching For A Heart	Mutineer Album Seminole Bingo Something Bad Happened to a Clown Similar to Rain The Indifference of Heaven Jesus Was a Cross Maker Poisonous Lookalike Piano Fighter Rottweiler Blues Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse Mutineer
Reconsider Me: The Love Songs Album Accidentally Like A Martyr Please Stay Reconsider Me Searching For A Heart Hostage-O Tenderness On The Block El Amor De Mi Vida Keep Me In Your Heart Back In The High Life Again	Sentimental Hygiene Album Sentimental Hygiene Boom Boom Mancini The Factory Trouble Waiting to Happen Reconsider Me Detox Mansion Bad Karma Even a Dog Can Shake Hands The Heartache Leave My Monkey Alone
Stand in the Fire Album Excitable Boy Jeannie Needs A Shooter Lawyers, Guns And Money Poor, Poor Pitiful Me Stand in the Fire The Sin	The Envoy Album The Envoy The Overdraft The Hula Hula Boys Jesus Mentioned Let Nothing Come Between You Looking For The Next Best Thing Never Too Late for Love
The Wind Album Dirty Life And Times Disorder In The House Numb As A Statue Prison Grove El Amor De Mi Vida The Rest Of The Night Please Stay Rub Me Raw Keep Me In Your Heart	Transverse City Album Transverse City Run Straight Down The Long Arm Of The Law Turbulence They Moved the Moon Splendid Isolation Networking Gridlock Down In The Mall
Wanted Dead or Alive Album Wanted Dead or Alive She Quit Me Calcutta Iko Iko Traveling in the Lightning A Bullet for Ramona Gorilla Fiery Emblems	Warren Zevon Album Frank And Jesse James Backs Turned Looking Down the Path Hasten Down The Wind Poor, Poor Pitiful Me The French Inhaler Carmelita Join Me in L.A. Desperados Under The Eaves

Warren Zevon is dead.Sept 8 2003.

Warren Zevon is the son of a Russian immigrant and a Midwestern girl; he was born in Chicago but raised in California and Arizona. Although he had little formal musical training, while in junior high in Los Angeles he became acquainted with the conductor and writer Robert Craft, who gave him advice and guidance, and introduced him to Igor Stravinsky, whose house he was honored to visit several times.

Also interested in singing, Zevon taught himself to play guitar by listening to folk music. "I think I was trying to learn the banjo parts," he muses. "My guitar playing has always been a little bizarre." Most would agree.

He began to write songs for recording groups, and radio and TV commercials, although he was finally ostracized from the ad business for insubordination.

Then he spent a couple of years touring as the Everly Brothers' pianist/bandleader. After the Everlys' break-up, he worked alternately with Phil and Don, sang for a while in Bay Area clubs, played free-lance piano and sojourned in Aspen long enough to be appointed honorary coroner of Pitkin County, Colorado (late one night in the Hotel Jerome bar).

In 1975, he left for a year's self-imposed exile in Spain, where he ended up singing country-and-western tunes in an Irish bar. In the meantime, Zevon's closest friend, Jackson Browne, was spreading Warrenâ€™s music and setting up a recording contract for him Stateside. Stopping off in London to arrange a Phil Everly album (and earn plane fare), he returned to Los Angeles, where Browne produced his first Asylum album, Warren Zevon, released in May '76. Linda Ronstadt recorded four songs from that album, including the hit single "Poor Poor Pitiful Me." The January 7, 1980 edition of Time magazine named the LP one of the ten best rock albums of the Seventies.

Warren toured the U.S., then Europe with Jackson Browne, after which he took off for Spain and East Africa to visit friends and begin writing songs for his second Elektra/Asylum album, Excitable Boy. The album, produced by Jackson Browne and Waddy Wachtel (guitar wizard and crony from the Everly Brothers band), was released in January '78 and ascended briskly to the Top 10, also yielding the hit single, "Werewolves Of London."

Often called the "Peckinpah Of Rock," Zevon was also dubbed "F. Scott Fitzevon" for his legendary capacity for vodka. In the fall of '78, with encouragement from his wife Crystal and his friends, he admitted himself to a month's term in an alcohol rehabilitation hospital.

In the beginning of '79 Zevon met Irving Azoff, and is now represented by Front Line Management.

After an amicable divorce, he spent the year in Hollywood working on his next album, Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School, recording as he wrote, with Greg Ladanyi co-producing. At the same time, he studied dance with Joanne DeVito, a ballet choreographer who had also helped coach John Travolta.

Later in the year, Warren met actress Kim Lankford (of TV's "Knot's Landing"), and the two have been inseparable ever since. "Love at first sight," said the National Enquirer. What else is there to say?

After Kim acted in "The Octagon," she introduced Zevon to the world of martial arts; he has become Aaron Norris's only private student.

Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School was released in January '80. A controversial record, it was generally regarded as his most violent and at the same time vulnerable and self-revelatory work.

After a year in the studio and "in training," Zevon was eager to tour. First, he enlisted the aid of East Coast guitar ace David Landau ("The Jaguar"). Then he met a group called Boulder, which had recorded a harrowing and intelligent version of Zevonâ€™s "Join Me In LA.," included on their debut album. The "audition" consisted of a spirited rendition of "Johnny B. Goode," and the touring band was born. The band (including Warren and show were titled "The Dog Ate The Part We Didn't Like," a line borrowed from Zevon's friend, novelist Thomas McGuane.

The tour was a great success. Rolling Stone wrote of an April concert at L.A.'s Universal Amphitheatre: "In response to the audience's ovation, Zevon announced ungrammatically, 'I sing as good as I can, and I dance as well as I want.' As he skillfully demonstrated that evening, he manages pretty damn good and pretty damn well."

Reflecting on his somewhat sudden decision to record the few-months-new group in concert, the Excitable Boy says: "Strike while the iron's hot."

Zevon wrote two new songs for The Roxy and the record. "Stand In The Fire" is a get-go rocker extolling the virtues of electric guitarists and red-haired girls. "The Sin" begins as a punk homily on the need for human kindness, but is wrenched into a nightmare of Warren's indictment for emotional war crimes.

The singer says he's fulfilled one of his greatest artistic ambitions in recording "Bo Diddley," his all-time favorite song. "Lyrically and musically, I consider it the apotheosis of the rock 'n' roll song. It's a whole world view.

"We did it very Lorca."

Warren and Kim live together in Los Angeles, with friend and aide-de-camp George Gruel (a man described by Clarence Clemmons as " The Right Size") nearby, and visitors Jordan, Zevon's eleven-year-old son, and four-year-old daughter Ariel. His enthusiasms, apart from physical fitness, are still Scorcese and Eastwood movies, James Joyce, James Bond, target practice, and playing dead.