Warren Zevon's Mutiny
Andy Gill, MOJO, August 1995
If anyone has done it his way, it is "that gonzo party guy" Warren Zevon. And over the years such luminaries as Dylan, Neil Young and R.E.M. have joined in the fun. So have Stravinsky, Carl Hiaasen, Thomas McGuane and Clint Eastwood. "I thought I was the Rock n Roll Nabokov, he tells Andy Gill.
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