# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/warren-zevon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:15:11.932Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/warren-zevon"
name: "Warren Zevon"
slug: "warren-zevon"
description: "Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer and songwriter. His most famous compositions include \"Werewolves of London\", \"Lawyers, Guns and Money\" and \"Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner\". All three songs are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy (1978), the title track of which is also well-known. He also wrote major hits that were recorded by other artists, including \"Poor Poor Pitiful Me\", \"Mohammed's Radio\", \"Carmelita\" and \"Hasten Down the Wind\". Per The New York Times, \"Mr. Zevon had a pulp-fiction imagination\" which yielded \"terse, action-packed, gallows-humored tales that could sketch an entire screenplay in four minutes and often had death as a punchline. But there was also vulnerability and longing in Mr. Zevon's ballads, like 'Mutineer,' 'Accidentally Like a Martyr' and 'Hasten Down the Wind'.\""
tagline: "American rock musician (1947–2003)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-01-24"
deathDate: "2003-09-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump