![]() ![]() He returned to LA on, as one article I read said, “the fringes of the LA pop scene. But suffice it to say that like so many, this dream did not work out. It’s hard to find any evidence from his playing around this time. Zevon studied classical music as a teenager and when his parents split up, he dropped out of school and made his way to Greenwich Village in the early ’60’s to try his hand at being a folk singer. Maybe all this background provides some idea of Warren’s oddball lyricism. ![]() (Who, against all odds, managed to die a natural death.) Warren’s father, “Stumpy” Zevon was Cohen’s best man. His father, taking a completely different turn, was a bookie who handled dice games and bets for notorious gangster Mickey Cohen. Warren Zevon was born in Chicago, IL in 1947.
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