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Warren Zevon

Johnny Strikes Up The Band

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Excitable Boy is the third album by Warren Zevon, released in 1978. It includes the top 40 success “Werewolves of London”. The album brought Warren to commercial attention and remains the best-selling album of his career. A remastered and expanded edition was released during 2007. The tracks “Excitable Boy” and “Werewolves of London” are macabrely humorous. The historical “Veracruz” dramatizes the United States occupation of Veracruz, likewise “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” is a fictionalization of a mercenary in Africa. “Lawyers, Guns and Money” is a tongue-in-cheek take on Cold War paranoia. In addition, there are two straightforward ballads about life and relationships (“Accidentally Like a Martyr” and “Tenderness on the Block”). Read on...

Song lines: ♪ When Johnny strikes up the band ... When Johnny strikes up the ... Johnny strikes up the band ♫

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More songs by Warren Zevon (See Charts): Don'T Let Us Get Sick, I'Ll Sleep When I'M Dead, You’re A Whole Different Person When You’re Scared, Searching For A Heart, Knockin' On Heaven'S Door, Frank And Jesse James, Frank And Jesse James (Alternate Version), Gorilla, You'Re A Desperado, Transverse City, and Accidentally Like A Martyr.

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