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There is more (MUCH more) to Zevon than most people know. MUCH more...."Lawyers, Guns and Money" was written from a "somewhat personal" perspective......
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I guess Warren actually had a genius IQ Warren always referred to it mockingly as the highest IQ ever recorded in Fresno California lol. He was considered a prodigy who as a youngster was trained by Igor Stravinsky. Warren had his demon and it was alcoholism. Every step forward it seemed alcohol knocked him back 10 steps. He got clean later in life mostly to make amends to his wife that he abused when he drank heavily. He was a strange guy his wife in the book she wrote that he could never wear a shirt twice. Even when flat broke he would go to goodwill and thrift stores stock up on shirts lol and dump the used ones. I just connect with his songwriting. He is one of the few artists that I never get tired of listening to. I really think he didn't get his due because of the abusive behavior. His friends Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Brown knew how good his writing was.
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I found this and seems his father was an interesting fellow too. William "Stumpy" Zevon (born 1903- 1976) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish mobster and member of the Cohen gang, headed by Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen. Biography William Rubin Zivotofsky, was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1903. His father, Rubin, left for New York in 1905, and the Zivotofskys of Ukraine became the Zevons of Brooklyn. He was of Russian Jewish origin and lived in Chicago, Illinois where he was allegedly involved in gambling with Chicago Outfit boss Sam Giancana. He was married to Beverly Cope Simmons. Zevon moved to California and became a bookie who handled volume bets and dice games for notorious Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen. Zevon worked for years in Cohen's Combination, where he was known as Stumpy Zevon, and was best man at Cohen's first marriage. Zevon's police record showed arrests for gambling, burglary, receiving stolen property, robbery and violation of prohibition liquor laws. He was the father of American rock singer-songwriter and musician Warren Zevon. He was also allegedly related to folk/blues singer Jedaiah Zivotovsky. He worked as a boxer (serving as part of the inspiration for Warren's "Boom Boom Mancini" song), but was also a life-long criminal (probably part of the inspiration for his son's gritty outlaw songwriting).
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