Talk:Warren Zevon
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Can an admin put old Warren on the recent deaths list?Ark30inf 06:21, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)
All reports I have seen at list his date of death as Sunday 7th September. So changing date of death to that. -- Popsracer 12:03, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)
July 4, 2006 --
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- Hi -- I've spent several days expanding this article on an information only basis so that it reflects Zevon's 30-plus year career in greater detail. Everything I've added comes from verifiable sources, including BMI and Artemis Records press releases about Zevon's illness and death; back issues of Rolling Stone Magazine and subsequent interviews conducted with Paul Nelson, who wrote several of the important Zevon articles for that publication; the original Rolling Stone Record Guide and the most recent (fourth) version published in 2004; Billboard's charts for the period covered; and the lyrics and track listings on Zevon's individual albums. I've made a few additional passes on the piece to expunge my own opinions wherever they seeped through (anything that remains -- such as the handful of evaluative comments about individual songs -- can be backed up by citing specific lyrics if this is required).
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- I am adding this commentary because I see from the article history that this piece has been vigorously rewritten several times to expunge fan writing, and I wanted to assure the moderator that the rewrites done July 1 through July 4 2006 are fact-based (and written by a professional journalist into the bargain). My intention was to allow for the novice reader to get a better understanding of the breadth of Zevon's peculiar oevre, and I have been respectful to all the previous text that was contained in this entry.
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- Thanks for understanding, and please enjoy every sandwich.
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[edit] lyme & cybelle
The error that won't go away! The folk duo Zevon was in in the 1960s did not use capital letters in its name, but people keep "fixing" the error of non-capitalization in this article. According to the album of their songs that came out in the early 2000s, they also used an ampersand (&) not the word "and." So "lyme & cybelle" is correct, not "Lyme and Cybelle."
[edit] Logo
His logo, the skull smoking a cigarette, would say a lot about him and his style of music. Can we get it under free use? →Iñgōlemo← talk 20:49, 2005 May 7 (UTC)
- "Old Velvet Nose" is the logo's name (even Warren refers to it as such in a journal entry in I'll Sleep When I'm Dead--just so that if anyone DOES get it, they can go ahead and give it the right label. FangsFirst 04:41, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Robert Craft
Opening lines refer to studying music at Stravinsky's home along with "Robert Kraft".
I think this is more likely Robert Craft, as referenced in the Igor Stravinsky page.
[edit] The Larry Sanders Show
I seem to remember him being a guest on one of the episodes of TLSS, where he REALLY didn't want to do Werewolves of London and Larry promised him he wouldn't have to... and then Larry announced Warren who would be playing Werewolves. :) Anyone want to see if they can find a transcript or something and add a bit to the article? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 20:26, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mormon?
I've removed the "Latter-day Saint singers" and "... musicians" categories until someone can provide citation. Did Zevon self-identify as Mormon? Being from a Momron family is not enough. -Porlob 18:48, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
FWIW, I was Googling for a half hour, and the only reference I could find at all to his religion or lack thereof, was a reference at [1] that says "As an adult, he practiced no religion." That still doesn't address the question of whether he might have identified as a "non-practicing Mormon" (is there such a thing?).
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- "VH1: Have you reconsidered your spirituality?
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- WZ: No. I've always been a Christian. People may find that bizarre, but I've always been a Graham Greene guy, haven't I? It's alluded to in many albums."
- http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/inside_out/68383/episode_interviews_int.jhtml?start=1FangsFirst 04:42, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
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