I always thought the piano tune was in fact Sweet Home Alabama. Likewise, a casual chat about music could carom from Radiohead to Brian Wilson to Shostakovich, at which point all I could do was nod and pretend I understood what the hell he was talking about”. The biggest hit of Warren Zevons career, Werewolves of London would ultimately become. Comment on the parts you think sound alike. Two years earlier, Lynyrd Skynyrd released 'Sweet Home Alabama'. All Summer Long also samples Warren Zevons Werewolves of London. A prodigious reader, he could talk knowledgeably about Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann or Mickey Spillane, all in the same conversation. Warren Zevon released 'Desperados Under the Eaves' in 1976. Sweet home Alabama is a song by the American Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Zevon was born in 1947 (Chicago, from Russian stock) and died in 2003 (stomach cancer). That’s how he earned his regal sobriquet …Įatin’ friend chicken with his regicidal friends.”Ĭarl Hiaasen said that the “most intimidating thing about him was the breadth of his intellect. He had ‘hits’, to varying degrees, with 'Werewolves of London' (featuring Mick Fleetwood and John McVie), 'Lawyers, Guns and Money', 'Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner' and 'Johnny Strikes Up the Band' all to be found on this disc. With just an opening line, you were hooked:Ī particular joy of his work is hearing words that have never, you can safely bet, been rarely used in song: As in his scathing portrayal of Elvis Presley: If you tried to pull that shit today your ass would be sued until you no longer had one. I usually can’t tell the difference between the two at the start. He was equally at home writing observational pieces as well as personal. It’s literally the same song as Sweet Home Alabama. (Warren) Zevon needed friends because among all the creativity, was a wrecking ball of destruction and addiction, which eventually led to rehab, getting clean and a song, of course, Detox Mansion.
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