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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Warren Zevon |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Crystal Zevon |
| ISBN: | 9780060763497 0060763493 |
| OCLC Number: | 191890468 |
| Notes: | Originally published: New York: Ecco, 2007. |
| Description: | p. cm. |
| Contents: | 1: Piano fighter -- Wild age -- Poor poor pitiful me -- The French inhaler -- Frank and Jesse James -- Werewolves of London -- Backs turned looking down the path -- When Johnny strikes up the band -- Mohammed's radio -- 2: Lawyers, guns and money -- Tenderness on the block -- I'll sleep when I'm dead -- Empty-handed heart -- Bad luck streak in dancing school -- Play it all night long -- Detox mansion -- Bed of coals -- Splendid isolation -- Down in the mall -- 3: Mutineer -- Searching for a heart -- Fistful of rain -- Mr. Bad Example -- Worrier king -- Monkey wash, donkey rinse -- The indifference of heaven -- Mutineer -- For my next trick I'll need a volunteer -- Life'll kill ya -- Hit somebody (the hockey song) -- 4: Don't let us get sick -- My shit's fucked up -- My dirty life and times -- Ourselves to know -- Don't let us get sick -- Keep me in your heart for a while. |
| Responsibility: | Crystal Zevon. |
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Abstract:
When Zevon was diagnosed with cancer he asked his estranged wife Crystal Zevon to take notes for a 'no-hold-barred' oral biography and insight into the Los Angeles music scene at the top of it's game. This work presents that biography. It features an introduction by Bruce Springsteen and afterword by Carl Hiassen.
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.".. a grisly but fascinating rock 'n' roll journal..."--Birmingham News
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