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Warren Zevon Has Terminal Lung Cancer

Thu Sep 12,12:57 PM ET

(9/12/02, 1 p.m. ET) -- Warren Zevon has been diagnosed with a terminal case of lung cancer. A former smoker, Zevon didn't know he had cancer, but a visit to a doctor in August revealed the disease, as well as the news that it had already metastasized to his liver.

The singer-songwriter has since been concentrating on two main things--spending time with his children, and writing and recording as many songs as he can in the coming weeks, with sessions planned for next week.

As is characteristic of his sense of humor, Zevon announced the news this way: "I'm OK with it, but it'll be a drag if I don't make it till the next James Bond movie comes out."

His two most recent albums--2000's Life'll Kill Ya and this year's My Ride's Here, both on Artemis Records--have earned Zevon some of the best reviews of his career, which is ironic since in a 1993 interview with Entertainment Weekly he said, "If you're lucky, people like something you do early and something you do just before you drop dead. That's as many pats on the back as you should expect."

There's no word on when or how Zevon's new recordings will be released, but a new greatest-hits collection is coming October 15 from Rhino Records. Genius: The Best Of Warren Zevon collects 22 songs from Zevon's career, including the hits "Werewolves Of London," "Excitable Boy," "Lawyers, Guns And Money," and "Raspberry Beret," his take on the Prince song with the Hindu Love Gods, the 1990 side project that also featured R.E.M ( news - web sites).'s Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry. The liner notes for Genius were written by British author Will Self.

The tracklisting for Genius: The Best Of Warren Zevon includes: "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," "The French Inhaler," "Carmelita," "Hasten Down The Wind," "Werewolves Of London," "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner," "Excitable Boy," "Lawyers, Guns And Money," "Interlude No. 1/Play It All Night Long," "A Certain Girl," "Looking For The Next Best Thing," "Detox Mansion," "Reconsider Me," "Boom Boom Mancini," "Splendid Isolation," "Raspberry Beret" (the Hindu Love Gods), "Searching For A Heart," "Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead," "Mr. Bad Example," "Mutineer," "I Was In The House When The House Burned Down," and "Genius."

-- Bruce Simon, New York

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