Zevon and Waddy Wachtel's Werewolves
The other day I told you that the first verse of Werewolves of London was named Best Opening Lyric on Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 show. I bet you thought that was my last word on the subject....
Here's the Rest of the Story....
Co-writer Waddy Wachtel spoke about Werewolves in an April 2000 interview in Mix Online
I said to Warren, '"Werewolves of London?" You mean like, "ow-ooooo"?' Warren says, 'Yeah, yeah!' I said, 'That's easy: Roy, play that lick of yours.' And he started playing it. I had just gotten back from England so I had all these lyrics in my head, so I just spit out that whole first verse. Warren says, 'That's great!' I said, 'Really? okay, fine-there's your first verse. You write the rest; I've gotta go into town.' And then they worked on the rest of it."
Sounds like Waddy should have received the credit.
