Music – ‘Lawyers Guns and Money’ Warren Zevon (1978)

Warren Zevon (1947-2003) was an American songwriter and rock singer.

He wrote and produced 13 albums between 1970 and 2003, but the stand-out was ‘Excitable Boy’ in 1978.  Such album carried his most notable songs ‘Lawyers, Guns and Money’, ‘Werewolves of London’ and ‘Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner’ respectively.

One of the album’s producers was Jackson Browne.

Zevon also wrote compositions recorded by other artists, most notably “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me’, which was recorded by Linda Ronstadt on her album ‘Hasten Down the Wind’.

Upon his premature death – in 2003, at age 56, from mesothelioma – the ‘New York Times’ wrote:

Mr Zevon had a pulp-fiction imagination [which yielded] terse, action-packed, gallows – humoured tales that could sketch an entire screenplay in four minutes and often had death as a punchline.

When asked on the ‘Late Show With David Leterman’ what he had learned about life and death, Zevon responded:

How much you’re supposed to enjoy every sandwich.

In 2025, Zevon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The YouTube link to ‘Lawyers Guns and Money’ is here.