In 1978, Zevon released his breakthrough album, Excitable Boy, to critical acclaim and popular success. Scott Fitzgerald, whose early, alcohol-fueled death Zevon seemed bent on repeating. Scott Fitzevon," a reference to the American novelist F. It was during this period that Zevon's excessive vodka intake earned him the nickname "F. music scene and " Desperados Under the Eaves", a chronicle of Zevon's growing alcoholism.
Representative tracks include the junkie's lament " Carmelita", the Copland-esque outlaw ballad " Frank and Jesse James", " The French Inhaler", a scathing insider's look at life and lust on the L.A. Though only a modest commercial success, the Browne-produced Warren Zevon (1976) would later be labelled a masterpiece in the first edition of the Rolling Stone Record Guide and is cited in the book's most recently revised (November 2004) edition as Zevon's most realized work. peers a grounding in earlier folk and country influences and a commitment to a writerly style of songcraft with roots in the work of artists like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. Though a much darker and more ironic songwriter than Browne and other leading figures of the era's L.A.-based singer-songwriter movement, Zevon shared with his '70s L.A. Zevon's first tour in 1977 included guest appearances in the middle of Jackson Browne concerts, one of which is documented on a widely circulated bootleg recording of a Dutch radio program under the title The Offender Meets the Pretender. Ronstadt elected to record many of his songs, including " Hasten Down the Wind", " Carmelita", " Poor Poor Pitiful Me", and " Mohammed's Radio". Contributors to this album included Nicks, Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, members of the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, and Bonnie Raitt. There, he collaborated with Jackson Browne, who in 1976 would produce and promote Zevon's self-titled major-label debut. In the mid-1970s, Zevon returned to Los Angeles, where he roomed with then-unknown Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham and became associated with the then-burgeoning West Coast music scene.
Together they penned Zevon's classic " Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner". His dissatisfaction with his career led him to move to Spain in the summer of 1975, where he played in a small bar in Sitges near Barcelona owned by David Lindell, a former mercenary. He later toured and recorded with Don Everly and Phil Everly, separately, as they tried to launch solo careers following their break-up. In the early 1970s, Zevon toured regularly with the Everly Brothers as keyboard player and band leader/musical coordinator. Zevon's second effort, Leaf in the Wind, was scrapped (though a belated release was contemplated just prior to his death). Flashes of Zevon's later writing preoccupations of romantic loss and noir-ish violence are present in songs like " Tule's Blues", " A Bullet for Ramona", and the album's title track. Zevon's first attempt at a solo album, Wanted Dead or Alive (1969), was produced by 1960s cult figure Kim Fowley but did not fare well in the marketplace. Another early composition (" She Quit Me") was included in the soundtrack for the film Midnight Cowboy (1969). In the 1960s, Zevon also toured and recorded with Manfred Mann. He wrote several songs for his White Whale label-mates The Turtles (" Like the Seasons" and " Outside Chance"), though his participation in their recording is unknown. He wrote jingles under the pen name "Barry Manilow".
He spent time as a session musician (notably as piano player and band leader for the Everly Brothers) and jingle composer. Zevon turned to a musical career early, including a stretch with high school friend Violet Santangelo as part of a Sonny and Cher-type male/female duo called lyme & cybelle (exercising artistic license, the band name eschewed capitalization). Zevon's parents divorced when he was 16 and he soon quit high school and moved from Los Angeles to New York to become a folk singer. By the age of 13, Zevon was an occasional visitor to the home of Igor Stravinsky where he, alongside Robert Craft, briefly studied modern classical music. "Stumpy" Zevon was a boxer, small-time criminal and Mickey Cohen associate of Russian Jewish origin and a relative of folk/blues-singer, Jedaiah Zivotovsky, they soon moved to California. Zevon was born in Chicago, Illinois to William "Stumpy" Zevon (formerly "Zivotovsky") and Beverly Cope Simmons, a Mormon from Salt Lake City, Utah. 7 Posthumous releases and biographical works.3 Success - Not just a four letter word.
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