Follow @genius Born in 1947, Warren Zevon proved a shy child, suffering from the many relocations to which his family situation put him. He followed it up in 1978 with his most commercially successful album, Excitable Boy, with such semi-hits and cult classics as "Lawyers, Guns and Money" and the title track, "Excitable Boy.". Roland the headless Thompson gunner (Time, time, time, for another peaceful war) Norway's greatest son (Time stands still for Roland, till he evens up the score) They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun 7. Perhaps there is some critical benefit to the fact that Kushins's biography arrives decades after its subject's best-known albums and 16 years after his death. From this distance maybe we can judge the man a little more accurately than cult adoration or funereal sentimentality allows. //