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Warren Zevon plays a synthesizer in his West Hollywood, Calif.,Īpartment in this Oct.

In telling the world about his fatal illness, Zevon made a trademark joke: “Really, the thing I want is to last through the winter so I don’t miss the new James Bond movie.” Help from his friendsĪfter being diagnosed, Zevon spent much of the rest of his time visiting with his two grown children and working on a final album, “The Wind,” which was released to critical acclaim last month.

Zevon announced in September 2002 that he had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and had only months to live. “Life’ll Kill Ya” includes the line: “Some get the awful, awful diseases, Some get the knife, some get the gun, Some get to die in their sleep, at the age of 101.” He taunted mortality in darkly humorous songs such as “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,” “Life’ll Kill Ya” and “Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead.” Some of Zevon’s favorite subjects were guns, desperation and encroaching doom. “I’m just glad it was quick and he didn’t have to suffer for much more time,” said Zevon’s music producer friend Jorge Calderon, who worked with the singer on a recent cover of Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.” “I’m glad he’s at peace.”

Zevon, among the wittiest and most original of a broad circle of performers to emerge from Los Angeles in the 1970s, died in his sleep Sunday at his home, publicist Carise Yatter said. Los Angeles ? Singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, who battled death with the same twisted sense of humor found in his songs “Life’ll Kill Ya,” “Werewolves of London” and “Excitable Boy,” has lost his yearlong fight against lung cancer at age 56.