[UA] Of Lawyers, Guns & Money.

[Tim Bisaillon]

I know this is offtopic... just had to pass this on to the list.


Warren Zevon, a restless, sardonic bard who embodied the dark edge and 
excess of the famed singer-songwriter scene in 1970s Southern California, 
died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 56.

Zevon died Sunday afternoon at his home in Los Angeles, according to his 
manager Irving Azoff, who said that the singer had been "very upbeat" in the 
past week due to the success of his new album and the recent birth of twin 
grandchildren. "He was in a good place."

While casual pop fans might recognize only his 1978 horror-show hit 
"Werewolves of London," Zevon for years enjoyed a cult following and the 
acclaim of his peers for songs that were often about fractured world 
politics and the disloyal human heart.

In a macabre songbook that includes "Excitable Boy," "Lawyers, Guns and 
Money" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner," Zevon presented a world of 
the undead and the unethical on the rampage in a mercenary world. In "Mr. 
Bad Example," an altar boy grows up to be a vagabond con man: "I'm very well 
acquainted with the seven deadly sins/I keep a busy schedule trying to fit 
them in/I'm proud to be a glutton and I don't have time for sloth/I'm greedy 
and I'm angry and I don't care who I cross."

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