Warren Zevon

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This documentary follows singer-songwriter Warren Zevon through his struggle with the cancer that would later kill him in 2003. Despite his debilitating disease, Zevon worked feverishly to complete his emotional final album, "The Wind." The creation of this album was an amazing endeavor that's also chronicled here. Hosted by Billy Bob Thornton, the program features interviews with Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood, among others.

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A cinema verite portrait of the recording of Zevon's swansong album: 'The Wind' - the twelfth and final studio album by Warren Zevon, was released 11 years ago today (26 August 2003). Zevon began recording the album shortly after he was diagnosed with inoperable plural mesothelioma (a cancer of the lining of the lung), and it was released just two weeks before his death on September 7, 2003. The album was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

Warren Zevon recorded live at the Capitol Theater in New Jersey in November 1982 in a concert broadcast on MTV. Songs include Johnny Strikes up the Band, The Overdraft, A Certain Girl, Jeannie Needs a Shooter, Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, The Envoy, Simple Man, Charlie’s Medicine, Jungle Work, Play It All Night Long, Accidentally Like a Martyr, Poor, Poor Pitiful Me, Cadillac Ranch, Excitable Boy, Ain't That Pretty at All, Werewolves of London.

Warren Zevon's guest spots over the years, from The David Letterman Show.

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