Known for his dry wit and acerbic lyrics, he was a guest numerous times on Late Night with David Letterman and the Late Show with David Letterman. in the blues rock outfit Hindu Love Gods for a 1990 album release, although no tour followed. He briefly found a new audience by teaming up with members of R.E.M.
This launched a cult following that lasted 25 years, with Zevon making occasional returns to album and single charts until his death from mesothelioma in 2003. Despite all this, Zevon struggled to break through in his solo career until his music was performed by Linda Ronstadt, beginning with her 1976 album Hasten Down the Wind. Zevon's early music industry successes were found as a session musician, jingle composer, songwriter, touring musician, musical coordinator and bandleader. 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". All three songs are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy (1978), the title track of which is also well-known.
Zevon's most famous compositions include " Werewolves of London", " Lawyers, Guns and Money", and " Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner". I don’t recall what surgery he’d had or whether it was emergency or elective - he wasn’t my team’s patient - but it struck me as a horrid waste that he lay there dying when he could have truly been “saved.Warren William Zevon ( / ˈ z iː v ɒ n/ January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer, songwriter, and musician. I saw a JW dying from blood loss in a recovery room, once. In other words, not everyone who undergoes a hip replacement requires a transfusion, and surgical teams have especially tried to accommodate Jehovah’s Witnesses. Careful surgical technique also minimizes blood loss. There is some physiologic reserve in the bones and spleen, too, of course. Then, the loss is diluted and the removed blood returned, through the same still-connected tubing, to replace what actually was lost. For decades, now, it’s been standard to help JWs and such get through bloody elective surgeries by starting the case with removal of a pint or two of blood, keeping the removal line attached, and adding an IV fluid to replace the volume. Sinead O’Connor’s version is transcendent. He was such a genre-hopper that you can hear him pretty much everywhere.Īnd it can’t be said often enough – Nothing Compares 2 U is one of the most exquisite pieces of music ever recorded.
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I’d have a hard job of defending his stuff from the late eighties onwards(although I remember being excited when my dad got me the Batman soundtrack) – I’m not sure he ever really understood why he was so good, and once he lost it it stayed lost, but at his best he was ahead of his time in bolting neo-psych onto pop he paved the way for every vaguely psychedelic, experimental pop band from then on – I hear him in everything from Opal/Rain Parade/Mazzy Star, mid-80s Kate Bush, Foals, Grimes, TV On The Radio, Everything Everything, through to stuff like Kendrick Lamar and Kanye, and most definitely Pharrell Williams, who’s probably his closest contemporary. No wonder he always wanted to work with Kate Bush – similar sensibility, and similarly divisive. I still think Purple Rain is one of the most original albums a mainstream artist’s ever released. I grew up with Prince playing in the house and Purple Rain and Around The World In A Day were probably the first examples of ‘grown-up’ music that I really took to.
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