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Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. Articles Features Interviews Lists. Streams Videos All Posts. My Profile. Advanced Search. Artist Biography by Mark Deming. Born January 24, in Chicago, IL. Also Known As Stephen Lyme. Member Of Hindu Love Gods. In the liner notes for the I'll Sleep When I'm Dead anthology, Zevon stated that after the song came out, Habib sent him "a very nice letter of appreciation on State Department stationery".

Thompson's book, The Curse of Lono. An indication of the limited commercial success combined with fan dedication is the fact that The Envoy was not available on compact disc until , nearly four years after his death, but was widely available from fans using LP to digital conversion software. After the disappointing reception for The Envoy, Zevon's distributor Asylum Records ended their business relationship, which Zevon discovered only when he read about it in the Random Notes gossip column of Rolling Stone.

The trauma allegedly caused him to relapse into serious alcoholism and he voluntarily checked himself into an unnamed rehab clinic somewhere in Minnesota in His relationship with Gevinson ended shortly thereafter. Zevon retreated from the music business for several years, during which he finally overcame severe alcohol and drug addictions. The group released the non-charting single "Narrator" on the IRS company during , then went into abeyance for several years.

Berry, Buck and Mills served as the core of Zevon's next studio band when he re-emerged in by signing with Virgin Records and recording the album Sentimental Hygiene. The release, hailed as his best since Excitable Boy, featured a thicker rock sound and taut, often humorous songs like "Detox Mansion," "Bad Karma" which featured R. During the Sentimental Hygiene sessions, Zevon also participated in an all-night jam session with Berry, Buck and Mills, as they worked their way through rock and blues numbers by the likes of Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Prince.

Though the sessions were not initially intended for release, they would eventually see the light of day as the Hindu Love Gods album. The immediate follow-up to Sentimental Hygiene was 's Transverse City, a futuristic concept album inspired by Zevon's interest in the work of cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson. Key tracks include the title song, "Splendid Isolation," "Run Straight Down" which had a promotional video that featured Zevon singing in a factory while Gilmour played his guitar solos and "They Moved The Moon," the latter among Zevon's eerier ballads.

Transverse City was a commercial disappointment, and Virgin Records ended its relationship with Zevon soon after the album's release. Zevon, however, contracted almost immediately with Giant Records, and the first issue under Zevon's contract with his new distributor was the self-titled Hindu Love Gods album recorded during the Sentimental Hygiene sessions. During , Zevon, once again a solo artist, released Mr. Bad Example. This album featured the modest popular music success "Searching For A Heart" and the rock music song "Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead", later utilized for the title of the neo-noir film of the same name directed by Gary Fleder; after some skirmishing over the unauthorized use of Zevon's song title, the Zevon track was licensed to play over the film's end credits.

Owing to his reduced circumstances, his performances were often true solo efforts with minimal accompaniment on piano and guitar ; 's live Learning to Flinch documents such a tour. The disc received some airplay on college radio and was considered Zevon's version of Unplugged.

Zevon often played in Colorado to allow for an opportunity to visit with his long-time friend Hunter S. The breadth of his musical interests led to collaborations with younger stars. Zevon teamed up with R. Rolling Stone. Work in movies, TV Zevon took on projects that stretched the boundaries of his creative comfort zone. In May he joined Thompson, historian Douglas Brinkley and others in protesting the prison term of Lisl Ellen Auman, sentenced to life for her role in the killing of a Colorado police officer.

But every now and then, our system throws people away. The album was released in August to wide acclaim. Critics, fans and his record label have started the process of remembering. On Aug. But the singer-songwriter had long since put tributes and the pursuit of praise in an appropriately fatalistic perspective in a Entertainment Weekly interview.

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And I think I was there. For the rest of the tour, I was in a wheelchair, on crutches or gimping about.

RIP Zevon, his name still holds up in google searches. Thanks for the recording, and always thanks to archive.