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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
The Life and Dirty Times of Warren
Zevon
By Crystal Zevon
Ecco, 452 pages
"Nobody with a decent circle of
friends could have gotten away with
what my dad got away with. He was
famous and successful and talented,
and it's hard to tell someone like
that," You can't do this."
Jordan Zevon
------------
"Warren Zevon traveled down his
own road, and it's unpaved."
Jorge Calderon, who co-wrote 18
songs with Zevon
This is an informative, yet painful
book to read.
I am unabashedly a 30 year fan of
Warren Zevon and his music, yet
some of the aptly titled details of
his life and dirty times do make
one yearn to know how to flinch.
Zevon navigated the LA music
scene to emerge as a bona fide
superstar from 1977 to 1982, but
due to alcohol and drugs, had
precious little to show for his
success by the mid to late 80s.
The singer/songwriter who hooked
millions on carefully crafted pop
and sardonic, witty lyrics on
albums like Excitable Boy and
Stand in the Fire at the height of
his powers, was by 1985 living in a
one bedroom apartment.
This biopic, penned by former wife
Crystal Zevon, exposes the
multiple affairs that Zevon
indulged in well into his later
years, as well the horrendous
effect that alcohol had on his life,
as well as those around him.
Before being diagnosed with
terminal lung cancer in 2001,
Zevon had been clean and sober
for about 10 years.
Yet Crystal reveals that Zevon fell
hard off the wagon by 2002, and
booze almost scuttled his finale,
The Wind, rather than his illness.
The book contains many entries
from friends and lovers of
Zevon's-like Jackson Browne and
writer Merle Ginsberg- as well as
diary excerpts from Warren himself.
Interestingly, after performing his
last ever gig in Calgary, Zevon
wrote that he had been treated to
a threesome by two nubile female
fans, even if he did have to search
for condoms.
OK, so the guy was human.
But it was-and is-the music that
counts, and that stands up for
evermore.
No matter what.
Warren Zevon Biographer
Official Warren Zevon Website
The Life and Dirty Times of Warren
Zevon
By Crystal Zevon
Ecco, 452 pages
"Nobody with a decent circle of
friends could have gotten away with
what my dad got away with. He was
famous and successful and talented,
and it's hard to tell someone like
that," You can't do this."
Jordan Zevon
------------
"Warren Zevon traveled down his
own road, and it's unpaved."
Jorge Calderon, who co-wrote 18
songs with Zevon
This is an informative, yet painful
book to read.
I am unabashedly a 30 year fan of
Warren Zevon and his music, yet
some of the aptly titled details of
his life and dirty times do make
one yearn to know how to flinch.
Zevon navigated the LA music
scene to emerge as a bona fide
superstar from 1977 to 1982, but
due to alcohol and drugs, had
precious little to show for his
success by the mid to late 80s.
The singer/songwriter who hooked
millions on carefully crafted pop
and sardonic, witty lyrics on
albums like Excitable Boy and
Stand in the Fire at the height of
his powers, was by 1985 living in a
one bedroom apartment.
This biopic, penned by former wife
Crystal Zevon, exposes the
multiple affairs that Zevon
indulged in well into his later
years, as well the horrendous
effect that alcohol had on his life,
as well as those around him.
Before being diagnosed with
terminal lung cancer in 2001,
Zevon had been clean and sober
for about 10 years.
Yet Crystal reveals that Zevon fell
hard off the wagon by 2002, and
booze almost scuttled his finale,
The Wind, rather than his illness.
The book contains many entries
from friends and lovers of
Zevon's-like Jackson Browne and
writer Merle Ginsberg- as well as
diary excerpts from Warren himself.
Interestingly, after performing his
last ever gig in Calgary, Zevon
wrote that he had been treated to
a threesome by two nubile female
fans, even if he did have to search
for condoms.
OK, so the guy was human.
But it was-and is-the music that
counts, and that stands up for
evermore.
No matter what.
Warren Zevon Biographer
Official Warren Zevon Website