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He later toured and recorded with Don Everly and Phil Everly, separately, as they tried to launch solo careers following their break-up. In the early 1970s, Zevon toured regularly with the Everly Brothers as keyboard player and band leader/musical coordinator. Zevon's second effort, Leaf in the Wind, was scrapped (though a belated release was contemplated just prior to his death). Flashes of Zevon's later writing preoccupations of romantic loss and noir-ish violence are present in songs like " Tule's Blues", " A Bullet for Ramona", and the album's title track. Zevon's first attempt at a solo album, Wanted Dead or Alive (1969), was produced by 1960s cult figure Kim Fowley but did not fare well in the marketplace. Another early composition (" She Quit Me") was included in the soundtrack for the film Midnight Cowboy (1969). In the 1960s, Zevon also toured and recorded with Manfred Mann. He wrote several songs for his White Whale label-mates The Turtles (" Like the Seasons" and " Outside Chance"), though his participation in their recording is unknown. He wrote jingles under the pen name "Barry Manilow". He spent time as a session musician (notably as piano player and band leader for the Everly Brothers) and jingle composer. Zevon turned to a musical career early, including a stretch with high school friend Violet Santangelo as part of a Sonny and Cher-type male/female duo called lyme & cybelle (exercising artistic license, the band name eschewed capitalization). Zevon's parents divorced when he was 16 and he soon quit high school and moved from Los Angeles to New York to become a folk singer. By the age of 13, Zevon was an occasional visitor to the home of Igor Stravinsky where he, alongside Robert Craft, briefly studied modern classical music.

"Stumpy" Zevon was a boxer, small-time criminal and Mickey Cohen associate of Russian Jewish origin and a relative of folk/blues-singer, Jedaiah Zivotovsky, they soon moved to California.

Zevon was born in Chicago, Illinois to William "Stumpy" Zevon (formerly "Zivotovsky") and Beverly Cope Simmons, a Mormon from Salt Lake City, Utah.