Warren Zevon

Person · Open Library

Works

3

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Film & TV

Acting · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Warren William Zevon (/ˈziːvɒn/; January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer and songwriter. His most famous compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner". All three songs are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy (1978), the title track of which is also well-known. He also wrote major hits that were…

Known for

• Mutineer2025
• 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self (archive footage)2025
• Movie Themes at the BBC — Self2023
• Warren Zevon: The Letterman Show Collection2005
• Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart — Himself2003
• South of Heaven, West of Hell — Babcock2000
• Suddenly Susan — Warren Zevon1996
• The Larry Sanders Show — Warren Zevon1992
• Dream On — Warren Zevon1990
• She's Having a Baby — Warren Zevon (uncredited)1988

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1947

Active to

2003

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

786,218

Total plays

14,063,055

Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 - September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his unique and sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes. Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known musicians, including Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young. His best-known compositions include "Werewolves of London" <a href="h

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Basic local alignment search tool

   · 1990 · cited 80,856x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,538x

3. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

   · 2016 · cited 23,660x

4. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 23,475x

5. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,894x

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Quotes

• “From what I know about alcoholism, I'd say there's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave — nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.”
• “I'm insane. I'm fucked up. I have problems. But I don't get depressed and I don't get bored.”
• “I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.”
• “It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies … I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.”
• “Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn’t pay off.”
• “You know, you put more value on every minute … I mean, I always thought I kind of did that. I really always enjoyed myself. But it's more valuable now. You're reminded to enjoy every sandwich, and every minute of playing with the guys, and being with the kids and everything.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Warren

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Chicago

Place of death

Los Angeles

Occupation

recording artist

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Notable work

Werewolves of London

Genre

hard rock

Instrument

harmonica

Record label

Koch Entertainment

Official website

www.warrenzevon.com

Image

JayCubby's copy of late 1970s Warren Zevon gloss 8x10 press photo.jpg

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