Warren Zevon

This album was political where 'Excitable Boy' was funny, troubling where the earlier record was sharp.

At this point, he seemed like a guy who might have signed his last contract.

We count down our 10 favorite songs by the excitable boy himself.

At that point, he'd been kicking around the music business since the mid-'60s.

Actors act and singers sing, and never the twain shall meet. That's the lesson we can all take from Adam Sandler's kicking-a-corpse-before-it's-cold take on Warren Zevon's 'Werewolves of London.'

Classic rock is about heavy hooks, power chords and tight harmonies. But it’s also about letting loose and enjoying the good times — and there’s no better time for that than Friday evening, when we pick up our paycheck, punch out of work and enjoy a couple days of much-needed rest and relaxation.

Sixteen years before he died of lung cancer in 2003, Warren Zevon recorded a song about a blue-collar worker that pretty much foreshadowed his own death. 'The Factory' appeared on Zevon's 1987 comeback album 'Sentimental Hygiene,' and chronicles the life of a man who grows up to be a factory worker just like his dad.