Warren Zevon
Subtitle: desperado of Los Angeles
By: George Plasketes
Series: Tempo : a Rowman & Littlefield music series on rock, pop, and culture
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781442234567
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Rock musicians; Biography
Other titles: Desperado of Los Angeles
Description: 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.
Notes: "Timeline": pages xi-xxi.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-217), discography (pages 219-224), and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The grim and grin reaper in the songwriter's neighborhood; title: Join me in L.A.; title: The asylum IconocL.A.st; title: Knee deep in gore with glee; title: Rock bottom : the crack up and resurrection; title: Swear to god I'll change; title: Looking for the next best thing; title: Intruder in the dirt; title: That amazing grace sort of passed you by; title: Die another day : a desperado deteriorata; title: Posthumous script : "Eat my dust."