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Also Warren Zevon’s last album. Keep Me In Your Heart For A While might be the perfect goodbye song.

Zevon's last album is titled "The Wind" and yeah it really does stand out! His last performance on Late Night w/ Letterman is also something to check out. Really lots of his material is interesting to check out, even the stuff that doesn't do it for me is still good to enjoy!

I also love "Brainwashed" by George Harrison. Now I want to listen to the last Bowie album, assuming it was made in a similar context. It also makes me wonder if there's a list of all albums made in a similar vein. It would be an... emotional experience to listen to them all back-to-back!

Maybe I should just not subject myself to that.

The Bowie one is less of a tearful goodbye and more of a triumphant bow, so maybe one to play last heh. It’s excellent. Must be such a deep creative position to be in, making your final creative work after a long and successful career.

I only learned about Zevon's letterman appearance a few weeks ago and watched that. Quite ... powerful, in a very low key way. Was never a huge WZ fan, but had friends who were always in to him - his work is making its way in to my rotation now.

Brainwashed very much seemed like a 'best of' from George. Creative, spiritual, humorous, polished (but still a bit of a 'raw' feeling, in some ways). All his skills and talent seemed to come together at the same time, if only for one last push.

If you're looking for some interesting Zevon listens, there's a few YouTube videos from the early 80's that are quite good. He also has shows on archive.org which can be listened to.

Thanks!

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