I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon

When Warren Zevon died in 2003, he left behind both a fanatical cult following and a rich catalog of dark, witty rock-n-roll classics that includes "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," "Excitable Boy," and the immortal "Werewolves of London." He also left a trove of misadventures and anecdotes, a veritable rock opera of drugs, women, celebrity, high times, and hard ways. As Warren once said, "I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did." I''ll Sleep When I''m Dead is an intimate and unusual oral history of one of our most original and distinctive rock-and-roll antiheroes. Narrated by his former wife and longtime co-conspirator, Crystal Zevon, the book draws on over eighty interviews with the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Stephen King, Billy Bob Thornton, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, and countless others who came under his mischievous spell. The result is a raucous and moving tale of love and obsession, creative genius and epic bad behavior. Told in the words and images of the friends, lovers, and legends who knew him best, I''ll Sleep When I''m Dead captures Warren Zevon in all his turbulent glory.

Summary

Warren Zevon is one of the newest inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
“A harrowing ride through the backstreets of the L.A. music business with the King of Song Noir.” - Jackson Browne

Told in the words of his musical accomplices, fellow-travelers, friends, and lovers, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is an intimate and unusual biography of fabled singer–songwriter Warren Zevon, the musical force behind such dark, witty rock and roll classics as Werewolves of London and Roland, the Headless Thompson Gunner.
Compiled by Crystal Zevon, the artist’s former (and only) wife, this oral biography draws on interviews with Jackson Browne, Tom Petty, Emmylou Harris, Linda Rondstadt, Stevie Nicks, Lindsay Buckingham, the Everly Brothers, and a host of other denizens of Southern California’s influential rock scene to tell the story of the original “Excitable Boy”: literary hoodlum, OCD sufferer, brilliant songwriter, and rock–and–roll icon.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Digiacomo, Crystal Zevon, Crystal/ Hiaasen Zevon
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2007
• EAN: 9780060763459
• ISBN: 978-0-06-076345-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Music, Biography: general, Memoirs, Theatre Studies, History of Art, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Individual artists, art monographs, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Musical scores, lyrics and libretti, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Entertainment & Performing Arts, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Music, PERFORMING ARTS: Theater / General, ART: Women Artists, ART: History / General, MUSIC: Printed General, MUSIC: Essays, HISTORY: Essays, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs