Werewolves of London Werewolves of London "Werewolves of London" is a rock song performed by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon. It was composed by Zevon, LeRoy Marinell and Waddy Wachtel and was included on "Excitable Boy" (1978), Zevon's third solo album. The track featured Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood and John McVie on drums and bass respectively. The single was released by Asylum Records and was a top 40 US hit, reaching No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 that May. The song began as a joke by Phil Everly (of The Everly Brothers) to Zevon in 1975, three years before the recording sessions for
Warren Zevon Sick" and an austere version of Steve Winwood's 1980s hit "Back in the High Life Again". With record sale brisk and music critics giving Zevon his best notices since "Excitable Boy", "Life'll Kill Ya" is seen as his second comeback. He followed with the album "My Ride's Here" (2002), with its morbid prescience of things to come; the album included "Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)" (co-written by Mitch Albom, the author of "Tuesdays with Morrie", and featuring Paul Shaffer, the "Late Night" band, and a spoken vocal from TV host David Letterman) and the ballad "Genius" (later used as the