The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, like most … fame halls, is — depending on your perspective — either a treasured reliquary of greatness or an utter farce. Major League Baseball’s HOF, arguably the most ...

On November 8, Warren Zevon will be inducted posthumously into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. About two weeks earlier, on October 24, a star-studded tribute to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warren Zevon’s music career hit its commercial peak nearly 50 years ago. He died more than 20 years ago at age 56 of mesothelioma.

The men of Dawes have always been appreciative of their California rock forebears, whether Laurel Canyon folk royalty or edgier, anxiety-ridden troubadours. As for the latter category, it's no secret ...

Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. Zevon's most famous compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money ...

Warren Zevon needed a vacation in the late '70s. He was working on his third album, Excitable Boy, which would finally bring him some long-overdue commercial success. Before that, though, a break from ...

When Warren Zevon was nominated (for the first time!) this year for induction in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, I did not expect him to get in. The class was too strong, I thought. And Zevon — a ...

Years after his death, Warren Zevon was described by Bob Dylan as a "musician's musician" (and a "tortured" one at that). Dylan's admiration for Zevon is so great that he's even covered some of the ...

Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Warren Zevon kicked around the music industry for a decade before ...

The first time I met Warren Zevon was after a show he and his band did in May of 1978 at Boston’s Berklee Performance Center. I was a rock critic for the Bangor Daily News, down from Maine to cover ...

Warren Zevon was already a decade into a recording career when he released his breakthrough self-titled album in May 1976. But for every purpose the second LP under his name could have been Zevon's ...