Zevon was friends with many of California’s milder rockers among them Fleetwood Mac, Jackson Browne, and The Eagles. His bestselling album ‘Excitable Boy’ reached Billboard’s Top Ten and produced the hit single ‘Werewolves of London’. Along with his own work, he recorded or performed occasional covers, including Allen Toussaint’s “A Certain Girl”, Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, Leonard Cohen’s “First We Take Manhattan”, Steve Winwood’s “Back in the High Life Again”, and Prince’s “Raspberry Beret”. He also wrote major hits that were recorded by other artists, including “Poor Poor Pitiful Me”, “Accidentally Like a Martyr”, “Mohammed’s Radio”, “Carmelita”, and “Hasten Down the Wind”.
Zevon’s most famous compositions include “Werewolves of London”, “Lawyers, Guns and Money”, “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” and “Johnny Strikes Up the Band”, all of which are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy (1978), whose title track is also well-known. He was known for the dark and somewhat bizarre sense of humor in his lyrics and added a mature but cynical edge to the era of New-Wave music. His unstable childhood as the son of a gangster affected him a lot in his later life. the son of Beverly Cope (née Simmons) and William Zevon. 1974–1981)Īn American singer-songwriter whose poetic rock songs by turns hard-boiled, humorous, tough, and tender was acclaimed by critics and much admired by other songwriters, Warren Zevon was born on January 24, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois, the U.S. Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, United States Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States Warren Zevon – American rock singer-songwriter and musician.
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