Warren Zevon: How L.A.'s 'Excitable Boy' Won the Battle with the Bottle

"L.A. rock's newest darling desperado, Warren Zevon, likes to start his day with a screwdriver, then clear his head with coffee and a side of vodka, and eventually escalate to vodka and coffee, hold the coffee. After a bottle of Stolichnaya down the road, Zevon is ready to go to work. 'I used to get a lot of drunk-driving tickets,' he admits. 'So I knew it would come down to drinking or driving. So I picked drinking. I don't drive anymore.'"
— People, May 22, 1978

"Times have changed, now things are better/Someone had to pay the price."
— from 'Here Today, Gone Tomorrow', by the Ramones

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