Warren Zevon "Miss Gun to a Knife Fight: Stories", is composed of retellings of songs by Zevon. In 2012, George Gruel, a photographer who worked as Zevon's aide-de-camp from 1978 to 1983, published a book of photos of Zevon, entitled "Lawyers, Guns and Photos". Warren Zevon Warren William Zevon (; January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. Zevon's most famous compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" and "Johnny Strikes Up the Band", all of which are featured on his third album, "Excitable Boy" (1978), whose title track
Warren Zevon Lindley. Zevon toured the United States (with the Odds), Europe, Australia and New Zealand during this period. Owing to his reduced circumstances, his performances were often true solo efforts with minimal accompaniment on piano and guitar; the live album "Learning to Flinch" (1993) documents such a tour. The disc received some airplay on college radio and was considered Zevon's version of the MTV series "Unplugged". Zevon often played in Colorado to allow for an opportunity to visit with his longtime friend Hunter S. Thompson. A lifelong fan of hardboiled fiction, Zevon was friendly with several well-known writers, who also collaborated