Talk:Warren Zevon

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Can an admin put old Warren on the recent deaths list?Ark30inf 06:21, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)

All reports I have seen at list his date of death as Sunday 7th September. So changing date of death to that. -- Popsracer 12:03, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)

July 4, 2006 --


 * Hi -- I've spent several days expanding this article on an information only basis so that it reflects Zevon's 30-plus year career in greater detail. Everything I've added comes from verifiable sources, including BMI and Artemis Records press releases about Zevon's illness and death; back issues of Rolling Stone Magazine and subsequent interviews conducted with Paul Nelson, who wrote several of the important Zevon articles for that publication; the original Rolling Stone Record Guide and the most recent (fourth) version published in 2004; Billboard's charts for the period covered; and the lyrics and track listings on Zevon's individual albums. I've made a few additional passes on the piece to expunge my own opinions wherever they seeped through (anything that remains -- such as the handful of evaluative comments about individual songs -- can be backed up by citing specific lyrics if this is required).


 * I am adding this commentary because I see from the article history that this piece has been vigorously rewritten several times to expunge fan writing, and I wanted to assure the moderator that the rewrites done July 1 through July 4 2006 are fact-based (and written by a professional journalist into the bargain). My intention was to allow for the novice reader to get a better understanding of the breadth of Zevon's peculiar oevre, and I have been respectful to all the previous text that was contained in this entry.


 * Thanks for understanding, and please enjoy every sandwich.

lyme & cybelle
The error that won't go away! The folk duo Zevon was in in the 1960s did not use capital letters in its name, but people keep "fixing" the error of non-capitalization in this article. According to the album of their songs that came out in the early 2000s, they also used an ampersand (&) not the word "and." So "lyme & cybelle" is correct, not "Lyme and Cybelle."

Robert Craft
Opening lines refer to studying music at Stravinsky's home along with "Robert Kraft".

I think this is more likely Robert Craft, as referenced in the Igor Stravinsky page.

Anyone understand what this means: "most realized work" ..?
Second paragraph under sub-head Return to L.A. and major-label debut has this:

"The first edition of the Rolling Stone Record Guide (published in 1979) called it a masterpiece. The guide's latest edition (November 2004) calls it Zevon's most realized work."

I have no idea what "most realized work" means.

Anyone?

Absent an explanation this should be cut.

Rblack2001 (talk) 14:55, 29 May 2018 (UTC)


 * It would mean that he had a vision or goal; and that this album (of all his albums) “most realized“ (or achieved) it. MBG02 (talk) 18:18, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Michael Flood's essay "Lord Byron's Luggage: Warren Zevon and the Redefinition of Literature Rock".
Can anyone provide a link to this article? It's cited everywhere but not found online.

Spousal Abuse and Personal life section
I was wondering why Zevon’s abuse of multiple women (particularly his wife Crystal, which is detailed in the oral biography she was asked to write by him personally after he died) isn’t included in the personal life section, along with his relationships with Eve Babitz and Eleanor Mondale. The talk of his substance abuse feels all over the place and in my opinion, correlates to his personal life and relationships. CaleEnthusiast (talk) 04:03, 4 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I think personal life should be “personal relationships” since the personal crisis details his substance abuse. CaleEnthusiast (talk) 04:04, 4 June 2023 (UTC)