Meanwhile, Zevon ’s friends in California were working on his behalf. He worked as a musical director and band member for the Everly Brothers, and then in 1974, went to Spain, where he played piano in a club for tourists. Lack of success put Zevon ’s solo career on hold for a while. Finally in 1970 he got the opportunity to record his first album, Wanted Dead or Alive, which flopped.
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Even then Zevon was busy writing his own songs, and one of his compositions, “She Got Me Man, ” appeared in the movie Midnight Cowboy. From there he moved to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles, where he met and worked with Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, members of the Eagles, and other performers immersed in the popular southern California rock sound of the 1970s. Zevon spent his youth studying classical piano, but at 16, he left his family ’s California home, guitar in tow, for the New York folk scene of the early 1960s. ” The range of his lyrics, combined with his talents as a musician and composer, have made Zevon a long-standing favorite of critics, fellow musicians, and his devoted fans. Ironic and darkly humorous lyrics remain his trademark, but he also has a serious side that Rolling Stone critic Elysa Gardner called “an almost folk-like earnestness. Since then, though, he has returned to the studio for three solo albums and a collaboration with members of the pop group R.E.M. Zevon ’s next few recordings did not attain the same popularity, however, and Zevon did not release any new material for five years. His first commercial success as a solo artist came in 1978 with the Top Ten single “Werewolves of London, ” from the gold album Excitable Boy. Before beginning his solo career, Zevon worked extensively as a backing musician on stage and in the studio he even wrote jingles. Warren Zevon ’s career has taken almost as many strange twists and turns as the stories of the bizarre characters in his songs.
But it admits sentiment, hold the hygiene, and suggests that he knows more about love dying than he did when he was immortal.“You Know, Dear, This Album Isn ’t Funny ” Everyone who says this isn’t a sentimental record is right. Only by hearing them can you grasp their tenderness, or understand that the absolute Spanish one seems to be for the wife he left behind, or muse that while the finale addresses his current succor provider, it also reaches out to the rest of us. “I’m looking for a woman with low self-esteem” is how he sums up the succor he craves, and he finishes off a painful “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” with impatient cries of “Open up, open up, open up.” But “El Amor de Mi Vida,” “She’s Too Good for Me,” “Please Stay,” and “Keep Me in Your Heart” mean what their titles say.
“Naturally he fends off death-the-fact the way he fended off death-the-theme–with black humor. Here is a touching documentary about the making of The Wind and Warren Zevon’s last months alive: It is not a big bombastic farewell, it is a guy who enjoys making a record with a bunch of his friends. None of them taking the show from Warren Zevon, he is so clearly in control of his last creation. Many of his more famous friend came to lend a hand on the record, including Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty, Emmylou Harris, Don Henley, Ry Cooder, Billy Bob Thornthon, Jim Keltner, David Lindley, T-Bone Burnett, Joe Walsh and Dwight Yoakam. The diagnose did in his own words, lead him into one of the most intense and creative periods of his life. Hey, I feel like I’ve lived a couple of lives.” Then for 18 years I was a sober dad of some amazing kids. I was a malfunctioning rummy for a while and running away for a while. I was the hardest-living rocker on my block for a while. When diagnosed with lung cancer, he said: “I feel the opposite of regret. “It’s hard to say if he’s being sincere or darkly witty with his cover of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” though he manages to make it work both ways.” Two weeks before he died of lung cancer, he released one of his best albums, The Wind. He was highly regarded by critics and music lovers (and musicians), you could say he enjoyed a cult following. Warren Zevon died in 2003 aged 56, he was noted for his black humour and dry wit he never had the big commercial success he deserved.
– Warren Zevon (told to The Guardian, and roaring with laughter) It means, ‘The fear of death just fucks me up’” It’s from a medieval Scottish poem by William Dunbar,
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