{"id":2132213,"date":"2025-11-03T12:27:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2132213"},"modified":"2025-11-03T12:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:27:56","slug":"rrhof-2025-spotlight-on-warren-zevon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rrhof-2025-spotlight-on-warren-zevon\/","title":{"rendered":"RRHOF 2025: Spotlight on Warren Zevon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Warren Zevon (Courtesy of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)<\/p>\n

After 30 years of eligibility, and one previous nomination, the late Warren Zevon<\/strong> is set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday in the Musical Influence category.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zevon is best known for such songs as “<\/span>Werewolves of London<\/span><\/a>” and “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” as well\u00a0as “<\/span>Keep Me In Your Heart<\/span><\/a>,” from\u00a0his 12th and final studio album, <\/span>The Wind<\/span>. It was\u00a0released in August 2003, just weeks before his Sept. 7 death at 56.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zevon also wrote songs that were recorded by other artists, including Linda Ronstadt<\/strong>, who covered\u00a0tunes like “Hasten Down the Wind” and “Poor Poor Pitiful Me.”<\/span><\/p>\n

While “Werewolves of London” was Zevon’s only top-40 hit, he had a devoted fanbase. In fact,\u00a0Billy Joel<\/strong>\u00a0wrote a letter to the Rock Hall in support of Zevon in 2023, before his first nomination.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I just wanted to put in my two cents of supporting Warren Zevon to be included,” Joel told the <\/span>Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/a> in 2023. “If anyone deserved to be, he did. He was a real original, and I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s appreciated enough.”<\/span><\/p>\n

That same year, the\u00a0Rock Hall’s\u00a0Jason Hanley <\/strong>told ABC Audio\u00a0why\u00a0Zevon\u00a0deserved the recognition,\u00a0saying “people loved his music,” and that he “influenced so many other artists and songwriters over the years.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After revealing he had been diagnosed with cancer, Zevon said his emotional goodbye to the public during an October 2003 appearance on <\/span>The Late Show with David Letterman<\/strong><\/span>, where he was the sole guest and musical performer. Letterman, a well-known Zevon fan, is scheduled to appear at Saturday\u2019s induction, so there\u2019s a good chance he’ll take part in the artist\u2019s tribute.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held Saturday in Los Angeles and will stream live on Disney+ starting at 8 p.m. ET. ABC will also air a highlights special on Jan. 1, 2026, at 8 p.m. ET.<\/span><\/p>\n

Disney is the parent company of ABC News.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Warren Zevon (Courtesy of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame) After 30 years of eligibility, and one previous nomination, the late Warren Zevon is set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Saturday in the Musical Influence category. Zevon is best known for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2132214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[371810,340628,403628,405694],"class_list":["post-2132213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-linda-ronstadt","tag-rock-roll-hall-of-fame","tag-werewolves-of-london","tag-zevon-fan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RRHOF-2025-Spotlight-on-Warren-Zevon.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132215,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132213\/revisions\/2132215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2132214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}