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The Fairfax High dropout narrated Los Angeles in his music. He revealed last year that he had inoperable lung cancer, then completed a new album, The Wind, before he died here yesterday.
warrenzevon.com
Rolling Stone obituary
New York Times obituary by Jon Pareles
L.A. Times obituary by Geoff Boucher
Dave Barry
Virginia Postrel
Blogcritics.org, when Zevon was diagnosed