“Werewolves of London” is a rock tune composed by LeRoy Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, and Warren Zevon and carried out by Zevon. Included on Zevon’s 1978 album Excitable Boy, it featured accompaniment by drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie of Fleetwood Mac. The only was launched by Asylum Data as catalog quantity 45472. It entered the American High 40 charts on April 22, 1978, reaching quantity 21, and remained within the High 40 for six weeks.

In keeping with Wachtel, “Werewolves of London” was “the toughest tune to get down within the studio I’ve ever labored on.” Nonetheless, Wachtel “laid down his solo in a single take, earlier than he’d even had an opportunity to partake of the bump of coke and drink he’d positioned in entrance of him.”

In keeping with Jackson Browne (who was the producer for the recording), “Werewolves of London” together with “Excitable Boy” had been written whereas work was being completed on the album that preceded Excitable Boy however weren’t included on that album in favor of different songs. The tune is in the important thing of G main, with a three-chord development that runs all through. Wiki