![]() ![]() ‘Nobody sings about hockey.’ So one night we sat in the basement with a guitar and a piano and a case of Mountain Dew, Warren’s favourite, and in three hours, we put music to lyrics I had written about a misunderstood hockey goon. “Warren was always asking me to write him a sports song. Listen to My Ride’s Here here.Īlbom, who was in the process of writing the global bestseller The Five People You Meet In Heaven at the time he joined forces with Zevon, had a background as a sports journalist, and sometimes jammed with the songwriter. Author Mitch Albom, who co-wrote the song Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song) with Zevon for the 2002 album My Ride’s Here, said that the musician’s apartment “was high walls of books”, including those of Kurt Vonnegut and Franz Kafka. The Chicago-born musician said he grew up “reading every word of Norman Mailer and John Updike”, and loved the company of writers. Warren Zevon was unquestionably one of the best literary songwriters in music.
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