Warren zevon death5/4/2023 and i've always liked it without knowing why, because its not a standard caustic-humor zevon song. he manages to elevate this song until it transcends the simple love song it is at its heart. the only thing that makes it stand out is some inventive key changes throughout - unexpectedly dipping and rising against the typical pop song formula. lyrically, it's a standard take-me-back song with a little heart, but a little greeting-card in it, too. because the song really shouldn't be as good as it is - it should be cheesy. and it's as good a place to start as any when discussing warren zevon. Reconsider me has been in my head on a more or less constant loop since i decided to read this. so i guess that's the end of that complaint. but it turns out warren zevon was rather unpleasant, too, both in the obvious drunken blackout wife beating way, but also in the name dropping/writing down all the funny things he said that day in his journal like a self-involved teenager that makes me a little queasy/shy.Īnd make no mistake - if anyone ever set about to write my biography - it would be clear that i, too, am an asshole, without any of the explosive talent that zevon had. not so much byron - but with him i'm in love with the mythology, and that's the whole point of byron - you know what you're getting into. It's just making me angry at people i used to like. Told in the words and images of the friends, lovers, and legends who knew him best, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead captures Warren Zevon in all his turbulent glory. The result is a raucous and moving tale of love and obsession, creative genius and epic bad behavior. Narrated by his former wife and longtime co-conspirator, Crystal Zevon, the book draws on over eighty interviews with the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Stephen King, Billy Bob Thornton, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, and countless others who came under his mischievous spell. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead is an intimate and unusual oral history of one of our most original and distinctive rock-and-roll antiheroes. As Warren once said, "I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did." When Warren Zevon died in 2003, he left behind both a fanatical cult following and a rich catalog of dark, witty rock-n-roll classics that includes "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," "Excitable Boy," and the immortal "Werewolves of London." He also left a trove of misadventures and anecdotes, a veritable rock opera of drugs, women, celebrity, high times, and hard ways.
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