Warren Zevon's Ex To Mine Grave For Tell-All Memoir, While I Cherish My Chance Meeting With A Music Legend - Page 2
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The late, great Warren Zevon's life is set to be retold through the eyes of his ex-wife (always a fount of selective memories) Crystal Zevon in a memoir that will reveal that Zevon returned to a life of drugs and alcohol in his final days as he struggled with lung cancer.
Zevon is fondly recalled for his eccentric style and quirky LA novelist rock. In terms of rock history, he is best known for his hits, "Werewolves of London," "Poor Poor Pitiful Me, " "Excitable Boy," and my favorite, "Lawyers, Guns and Money." But really that's just the tip of the iceberg. What Hunter Thompson is to writing, Warren Zevon is to music. Employing a guerrilla-style sense of story-telling, Zevon channeled his acerbic wit, but thoughtful take on the world into song. The results were wildly unpredictable, earnest, simultaneoulsy self-deprecating and arrogant, with a pinch of wistful. Either you got it, or you didn't it. And if you didn't, it was your problem, not his.
Word of his diagnosis came in the fall of 2002 and Warren hung in for an entire year, mostly by sheer willpower to see the birth of his twin grandsons in June 2003. He died a mere three months later on September 7, 2003.Not surprisingly, Warren faced with the knowledge he was suffering from incurable cancer, turned to his saving grace: his musical creativity. He was given a rare opportunity to do something special: write his own ending. That ending, Zevon's swan song of sorts, was The Wind. A beautifully crafted album featuring many of his musical peers and friends (Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Tom Petty, Emmylou Harris) which gave us the beautiful ballad "Keep Me In Your Heart." Warren received five Grammy nominations for that album, including Best Song Of The Year for "Keep Me In Your Heart" and ended up winning two posthumously, for Best Contemporary Folk Album and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal for "Disorder In The House," a duet with Bruce Springsteen also off of The Wind.
Sadly, these were the only two Grammy awards that Warren Zevon would win in his 30+ year career.
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