
Throw Back Thursday: I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon (Crystal Zevon)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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Zivan's Life Kila
What made zivon different from most rock stars is that he seems to have been a genuinely extremely intelligent man. Even in the excerpts chosen for this book, his favorite activity when killing time before a show in a new town was to visit book stores. While he's known for clever and acerbic lyrics, several of his songs show quite a deep history grasp. It's a rare rock song that mentions the crusades, much less cast them in a positive light. Still, he will never, in the foreseeable future, be lionized.
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