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Warren Zevon - Desperado of Los Angeles (Hardcover)
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Warren Zevon - Desperado of Los Angeles (Hardcover)
Series: Tempo: A Rowman & Littlefield Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture
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Warren Zevon was one of the most original songwriters to emerge
from the prolific 1970s Los Angeles music scene. Beyond his most
familiar song-the rollicking 1978 hit "Werewolves of
London"-Zevon's smart, often satirical songbook is rich with
cinematic, literary, and comic qualities; dark narratives; complex
characters; popular culture references; and tender, romantic
ballads of parting and longing. Warren Zevon: Desperado of Los
Angeles is the first book-length, critical exploration of one of
popular music's most talented and tormented antiheroes. George
Plasketes provides a comprehensive chronicle of Zevon's 40-year,
20-record career and his enduring cultural significance. Beginning
with Zevon's classical training and encounters as a youth with
composers Robert Craft and Igor Stravinsky, Plasketes surveys
Zevon's initiation into the 1960s through the Everly Brothers, the
Turtles, and the film Midnight Cowboy. Plasketes then follows Zevon
from his debut album with Asylum Records in 1976, produced by
mentor Jackson Browne, through his successes and struggles from a
Top Ten album to record label limbo during the 1980s, through a
variety of music projects in the 1990s, including soundtracks and
scores, culminating with a striking trio of albums in the early
2000s. Despite his reckless lifestyle and personal demons, Zevon
made friends and alliances with talk show host David Letterman and
such literary figures as Hunter S. Thompson and Carl Hiaasen. It
was only after his death in 2003 that Zevon received Grammy
recognition for his work. Throughout this book, Plasketes explores
the musical, cinematic, and literary influences that shaped Zevon's
distinctive style and songwriting themes and continue to make
Zevon's work a telling portrait of Los Angeles and American
culture.
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