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Warren zevon enjoy every sandwich9/19/2023 Realistically, it would have to play as a dark comedy. To date, there’s no biopic, understandable as it’s no doubt difficult to come up with a script centered around a lead character that, while talented, could be unlikable for a fair share of the running time and, even with the final act concluding with the album being made by a man facing his extremely imminent mortality, couldn’t be wrapped up in a tidy, crowd pleasing bow. His behavior–be it the anger, the abuse, the untrustworthiness in relationships–led to bridges being burned down or at least charred to the point where crossing became more difficult. It was news – literally sickening news – to him that he’d done such deeds.” Warren Zevon on the cover of Rolling Stone from Ma(Image: Warren Zevon’s website) In a 1981 Rolling Stone profile, writer and friend Paul Nelson detailed an intervention done on Zevon, saying, “One of the things that really rocked me back on my heels at the intervention was the fact that Zevon had been in an alcoholic stupor for so long that he couldn’t remember wrecking hotel rooms, punching people out or waving a pistol in a close friend and fellow songwriter’s face. There was also that bit of rebellious “What, here? That?” response when his better angels would have told him not to go somewhere or do something. Like too many others since the invention of alcohol, Zevon was the type of alcoholic who became more abusive and violent when he drank and drank in such volume that he couldn’t remember what he’d done. To start, Zevon, like no shortage of his music contemporaries of that age, had problems with addiction. When his ex-wife Crystal started work on his biography, Zevon, who knew he was dying of cancer, told her not to censor herself in what she wrote. It might have taken a crime scene cleanup crew (or at least top-shelf spin doctors) to sanitize parts of his life. Zevon specialized in so many songs about disreputable characters, none more disreputable at times than himself. Warren Zevon, who would have been 75 years old today, still resists an easy, smooth canonization, not that he’d want one in the first place. The man who wrote and sang, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” has been sleeping that way for over 18 years. Warren Zevon would’ve turned 75 today (Images: Discogs)
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