all lowercase letters: Early in his career, he was in a duo called lyme and cybelle, billing himself as stephen lyme.The Alleged Car: "Studebaker" is about a road trip in a car that keeps breaking down.He was born in Big Beaver by the border line. Actor/Role Confusion: Invoked in "My Ride's Here.".Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School (1980).He is a reliable feature on lists of 'most underrated artists' or 'artists who died too young'. These days, though, "Werewolves" is all anybody remembers. He also won two Grammy Awards posthumously, and several of his songs were Covered Up by other artists. Two of his songs ("Werewolves of London" and a cover of "A Certain Girl") made the Billboard Hot 100 (and "Leave My Monkey Alone" got up to #12 on the Dance/Club list), two of his albums ( A Quiet Normal Life and The Wind) went gold, and another ( Excitable Boy) went platinum. He's often described as a One-Hit Wonder, though this isn't actually true. His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles. He recorded the critically acclaimed album The Wind in 2003, and died a month after its release, at the age of 56. In 2002, just as he was in the middle of a commercial and critical comeback while touring for his album My Ride's Here, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma and was given months to live. In interviews he often described himself as a "heavy metal folk singer." He wrote songs for artists ranging from The Turtles to Prince to Linda Ronstadt to Bruce Springsteen, in styles from rock to country to punk. The list of songs he wrote for other artists is long, and may contain surprises. Thompson, he was the only known student of Igor Stravinsky ever to break the top forty. Warren William Zevon (Janu– September 7, 2003) was a Southern California singer-songwriter who had one big hit in the late 1970s with "Werewolves of London" and a cult following. But I don't get depressed and I don't get bored."
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