Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon

When I first heard this song when I was kid the song seemed as much a novelty as anything else. I did not know who Warren Zevon was and it really was years before I did. Over the last ten to fifteen years however Warren Zevon has become a strong presence in my rock and roll hierarchy.

Zevon's performances on Letterman were legendary. He wrote a book, admitting that he has whole gaps of time in the seventies and eighties that he does not remember. When he found out he had terminal cancer he recorded an album called The Wind that includes some heartbreaking songs including a version of Knockin' on Heaven's Door. His last appearance on David Letterman could bring tears, especially when he gave Dave a guitar.

Zevon was a talent, an underrated one. Lawyers, Guns, and Money, Excitable Boy, Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner were all great early songs but the song that most of us were first introduced to him with was Werewolves of London.

London is a song you can sing along with, it is a song which we all have known the words to for years and years. A song that even now when it comes on the radio you stop scanning, that you turn up the volume...Werewolves is one of those songs.

Owwoooo...we miss you Warren Zevon. My Ride's Here was an Ironic album near the end of your career before you knew you were sick. We wish you missed that ride for a few more years but are thankful for all that you left us.