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I'll sleep when I'm dead : the dirty life and times of Warren Zevon
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I'll sleep when I'm dead : the dirty life and times of Warren Zevon

Author: Crystal Zevon
Publisher: New York : HarperPaperbacks ; Enfield : Publishers Group UK [distributor], 2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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. As Warren once said, "I got to be Jim Morrison a lot  Read more...
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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.

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  Read more...
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.".. a grisly but fascinating rock 'n' roll journal..."--Birmingham News

 
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