![]() The son of a Russian fighter and gambler, and a piano prodigy who as a child knew Stravinsky, his first couple of albums contained expertly observed portraits of the beautiful and the damned among the ’70s LA coke and champagne set. Scott FitzZevon could scarcely have been more apposite. The singer was as comfortable with writers like Carl Hiaasen, Hunter S Thompson, Jonathan Kellerman and Thomas MacGuane as fellow musicians (although he had no shortage of distinguished fans and collaborators, including Bob Dylan and Neil Young). Jackson Browne dubbed him “the first and foremost proponent of song noir.” Bruce Springsteen called him “The good, the bad and the ugly… a moralist in cynic’s clothing”. Zevon coined so many brilliant lines that when his peers came up with quotes about him they tended to speak above even their own abilities. When Warren Zevon passed away on Sunday, September 7, rock ‘n’ roll lost one of its great ironists and men of letters. In the 2003 article below, Peter Murphy reflects on Warren Zevon’s legacy, and shares a transcript of a phone interview with the singer from 2000:
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