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Author: James Campion Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 1617137391 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 386
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(Book). Warren Zevon songs are like chapters in a great American novel. Its story lies in the heart of his and our psyche. The lines are blurred. We never seem to know if we are looking in a mirror or peering through a window; we only know that when we listen we see something . The music sets the scene his voice a striking baritone, its narrator our guide through a labyrinth of harrowing narratives. The plot unfolds without subtlety; each musical and lyrical arc awakens imagination. In Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon , music journalist James Campion presents 13 essays on seminal Zevon songs and albums that provide context to the themes, inspirations, and influence of one of America's most literate songwriters. In-depth interviews with Zevon's friends and colleagues provide first-person accounts of how the music was lived, composed, recorded, and performed. Longtime fans of this most uniquely tortured artist, as well as those who want to discover his work for the first time, will get inside the mind, talent, and legacy of the wildly passionate Excitable Boy.
Author: James Campion Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 1617137391 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
(Book). Warren Zevon songs are like chapters in a great American novel. Its story lies in the heart of his and our psyche. The lines are blurred. We never seem to know if we are looking in a mirror or peering through a window; we only know that when we listen we see something . The music sets the scene his voice a striking baritone, its narrator our guide through a labyrinth of harrowing narratives. The plot unfolds without subtlety; each musical and lyrical arc awakens imagination. In Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon , music journalist James Campion presents 13 essays on seminal Zevon songs and albums that provide context to the themes, inspirations, and influence of one of America's most literate songwriters. In-depth interviews with Zevon's friends and colleagues provide first-person accounts of how the music was lived, composed, recorded, and performed. Longtime fans of this most uniquely tortured artist, as well as those who want to discover his work for the first time, will get inside the mind, talent, and legacy of the wildly passionate Excitable Boy.
Author: Crystal Zevon Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061744999 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 484
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When Warren Zevon died in 2003, he left behind a rich catalog of dark, witty rock 'n' roll classics, including "Lawyers, Guns and Money," "Excitable Boy," and the immortal "Werewolves of London." He also left behind a fanatical cult following and veritable rock opera of drugs, women, celebrity, genius, and epic bad behavior. As Warren once said, "I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did." Narrated by his former wife and longtime co-conspirator, Crystal Zevon, this intimate and unusual oral history draws on interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Stephen King, Bonnie Raitt, and numerous others who fell under Warren's mischievous spell. Told in the words and images of the friends, lovers, and legends who knew him best, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead captures Warren Zevon in all his turbulent glory.
Author: George Plasketes Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1442234571 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 297
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Warren Zevon was one of the most original songwriters to emerge from the prolific 1970s Los Angeles music scene. Beyond his most familiar song—the rollicking 1978 hit “Werewolves of London”—Zevon’s smart, often satirical songbook is rich with cinematic, literary, and comic qualities; dark narratives; complex characters; popular culture references; and tender, romantic ballads of parting and longing. 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. Beginning with Zevon’s classical training and encounters as a youth with composers Robert Craft and Igor Stravinsky, Plasketes surveys Zevon’s initiation into the 1960s through the Everly Brothers, the Turtles, and the film Midnight Cowboy. Plasketes then follows Zevon from his debut album with Asylum Records in 1976, produced by mentor Jackson Browne, through his successes and struggles from a Top Ten album to record label limbo during the 1980s, through a variety of music projects in the 1990s, including soundtracks and scores, culminating with a striking trio of albums in the early 2000s. Despite his reckless lifestyle and personal demons, Zevon made friends and alliances with talk show host David Letterman and such literary figures as Hunter S. Thompson and Carl Hiaasen. It was only after his death in 2003 that Zevon received Grammy recognition for his work. Throughout this book, Plasketes explores the musical, cinematic, and literary influences that shaped Zevon’s distinctive style and songwriting themes and continue to make Zevon’s work a telling portrait of Los Angeles and American culture.
Author: Kody Keplinger Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 133818654X Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 310
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From New York Times bestseller Kody Keplinger comes an astonishing and thought-provoking exploration of the aftermath of tragedy, the power of narrative, and how we remember what we've lost. It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend, Sarah, was killed in a bathroom stall during the mass shooting. Everyone knows Sarah's story--that she died proclaiming her faith. But it's not true. I know because I was with her when she died. I didn't say anything then, and people got hurt because of it. Now Sarah's parents are publishing a book about her, so this might be my last chance to set the record straight . . . but I'm not the only survivor with a story to tell about what did--and didn't--happen that day. Except Sarah's martyrdom is important to a lot of people, people who don't take kindly to what I'm trying to do. And the more I learn, the less certain I am about what's right. I don't know what will be worse: the guilt of staying silent or the consequences of speaking up . . .
Author: James Campion Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1493062387 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 329
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In Take a Sad Song: The Emotional Currency of "Hey Jude," James Campion dives deeply into the song's origins, recording, visual presentation, impact, and eventual influence, while also discovering what makes "Hey Jude" a classic musical expression of personal comfort and societal unity conceived by a master songwriter, Paul McCartney. Within its melodic brilliance and lyrical touchstones of empathy and nostalgia resides McCartney's personal and professional relationship with his childhood friend and songwriting partner, John Lennon, and their simultaneous pursuit of the women who would complete them. There are also clues to the growing turmoil within the Beatles and their splintering generation scarred by war, assassination, and virulent protest. Campion's journey into the song includes the insights of academic experts and professors in the field of musicology, sociology, philosophy, psychology, and history. Campion also reveals commentary from noted Beatles authors, biographers, music historians, and journalists and, finally, a peek into the craft of songwriting from a host of talented composers across several generations. Take a Sad Song is a tribute to how a song can define, inspire, and affect us in ways we do not always fully comprehend, as well as a celebration of a truly amazing track in the Beatles canon that reveals one band's genius and underscores its lasting voice in our cultural and musical landscape.
Author: Source Wikia Publisher: University-Press.org ISBN: 9781230850238 Category : Languages : en Pages : 38
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This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 36. Chapters: A Bullet for Ramona, Accidentally Like a Martyr, Ain't that Pretty at All, Bad Karma, Boom Boom Mancini, Calcutta, Carmelita, Desperados Under the Eaves, Dirty Life and Times, Disorder in the House, Empty Hearted Town, Even A Dog Can Shake Hands, Excitable Boy, Frank and Jesse James, Gorilla, Hasten Down the Wind, Hit Somebody!, Hitchhikin' Woman, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, I Need A Truck, Iko-Iko, Jeannie Needs A Shooter, Johnny Strikes Up the Band, Jungle Work, Keep Me in Your Heart, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Leave My Monkey Alone, Life'll Kill Ya, Mohammed's Radio, Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse, Mr. Bad Example, My Shit's Fucked Up, Networking, Play It All Night Long, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Porcelain Monkey, Ride So High, Roland Chorale, Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, Rottweiler Blues, Run Straight Down, Searching for a Heart, Seminole Bingo, She Quit Me, Splendid Isolation, Stop Rainin' Lord, Studebaker, The Envoy, The French Inhaler, The Indifference of Heaven, The Long Arm Of The Law, The Rosarita Beach Cafe, Traveling in the Lightning, Trouble Waiting to Happen, Wanted Dead or Alive, Werewolves of London. Excerpt: "A Bullet for Ramona" is a song from Warren Zevon's first album, Wanted Dead or Alive. The song is about, ostensibly, a man shooting his lover in a fit of rage after discovering that she had been cheating on him with a drifter. The song itself is sung as a letter to the man's mother, explaining why he shot Ramona and why he now has to flee across the Rio Grande. In many ways this song foreshadow Zevon's preoccupations with romantic loss and noir-ish violence that appear in many of his later works. The song first appeared on Zevon's 1969 album, and a demo take was released as part of The First Sessions in 2003. Note: the text of this song's lyrics is not under the same copyright...
Author: Emily Austin Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1982167351 Category : FICTION Languages : en Pages : 256
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"Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she's there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace's old friend. She can't bear to ignore the kindly old woman, who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can't bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace's death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence."--Amazon.
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