When Zevon was diagnosed with cancer he asked his estranged wife Crystal Zevon to take notes for a 'no-hold-barred' oral biography and insight into the Los Angeles music scene at the top of it's game. This work presents that biography. It features an introduction by Bruce Springsteen and afterword by Carl Hiassen.

Don't miss this delightful collection of the colourful and tuneful complete orchestral music by the American west-coast composer Elinor Remick Warren. This is gathered onto one disc on Dutton Epoch CDLX 7235. Warren, whose life spans the twentieth century, lived from 1900 to 1991 and was known as a leading accompanist as well as a composer. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp revel in this colourful music. It includes two programmatic orchestral suites evocative of the west and the High Sierras, the Ravellian Symphony in One Movement, the tone poem The Crystal Lake and two deliciously tuneful encores - Scherzo and The Fountain - which must be among the most English-sounding orchestral music ever written by an American composer. Roderick Williams (this track with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Martin Yates) sings the aria 'King Arthur's Farewell' with touching commitment and feeling.