I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · May 1, 2007
“One of the most casually insightful rock bios ever.”—Entertainment Weekly Told in the words of his musical accomplices, fellow-travelers, friends, and lovers, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is an intimate and unusual biography of fabled singer–songwriter Warren Zevon, the musical force behind such dark, witty rock and roll classics as Werewolves of London and Roland, the Headless Thompson Gunner.
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- Who it’s for
- A sharp, sideways portrait with enough bite to keep the pages turning.
- Genres
- Musicians' Lives, Rock, Lives in Entertainment
- Published
- HarperCollins, May 1, 2007
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“One of the most casually insightful rock bios ever.”—Entertainment Weekly Told in the words of his musical accomplices, fellow-travelers, friends, and lovers, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is an intimate and unusual biography of fabled singer–songwriter Warren Zevon, the musical force behind such dark, witty rock and roll classics as Werewolves of London and Roland, the Headless Thompson Gunner.
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Compiled by Crystal Zevon, the artist’s former (and only) wife, this oral biography draws on interviews with Jackson Browne, Tom Petty, Emmylou Harris, Linda Rondstadt, Stevie Nicks, Lindsay Buckingham, the Everly Brothers, and a host of other denizens of Southern California’s influential rock scene to tell the story of the original “Excitable Boy”: literary hoodlum, OCD sufferer, brilliant songwriter, and rock–and–roll icon.
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A sharp, sideways portrait with enough bite to keep the pages turning.
Come here for
- edgy, playful tone
- a layered life-in-motion
Expect
- music and literary crosscurrents
- history with a dirty edge
Where it sits
| Musicians' Lives | 97% |
|---|---|
| Lives in Entertainment | 47% |
| Rock | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Art History
- American Art
- Women Artists
- Musicians' Lives
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- Lives in Entertainment
- Women's Lives
- Personal Memoirs
- History Writing
- Authors
- Crystal Zevon
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- May 1, 2007
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Art History