xviii, 452 pages : 24 cm

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." This book 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, it 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.--From publisher description

Piano fighter. Wild age ; Poor poor pitiful me ; The French inhaler ; Frank and Jesse James ; Werewolves of London ; Backs turned looking down the path ; When Johnny strikes up the band ; Mohammed's radio -- Lawyers, guns and money. Tenderness on the block ; I'll sleep when I'm dead ; Empty-handed heart ; Bad luck streak in dancing school ; Play it all night long ; Detox mansion ; Bed of coals ; Splendid isolation ; Down in the mall -- Mutineer. Searching for a heart ; Fistful of rain ; Mr. Bad Example ; Worrier king ; Monkey wash, donkey rinse ; The indifference of heaven ; Mutineer ; For my next trick I'll need a volunteer ; Life'll kill ya ; Hit somebody (the hockey song) -- Don't let us get sick. My shit's fucked up ; My dirty life and times ; Ourselves to know ; Don't let us get sick ; Keep me in your heart for a while

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