The best-selling biographer of Paul McCartney follows the ground-breaking musician Frank Zappa from his Italian-American childhood roots to his ultimate success as a composer and rock star. Reprint.
Recounts the life and career of the inventive and controversial rock musician, and includes information on his philosophies on art, his opinions on the music industry, and his thoughts on raising children.
The legendary Frank Zappa, one of the most influential, innovative and controversial musical artists for the past 20 years, takes us on a wild, funny trip through his life and times.
'Zappa The Hard Way' is the story of Frank Zappa's last ever world tour that ended in mutiny.
Freak Out! is the captivating story of a naive young English girl thrust into the mad world of a musical legend as well as the most intimate portrait of Frank Zappa ever written.
This collection of essays, documented by an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars, represents the first academically focused volume exploring the creative idiolect of Frank Zappa.
"The story of Ruben & the Jets": page 7; "Uncle Meat": pages 7-8; "The legend of Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus & his Grand Wazoo": pages 8-9.
Includes a foreword by Zappa guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, also of Missing Persons and Duran Duran fame.
Music historian Neil Slaven has brilliantly chronicled the complex strands of ZappaĆ¢s life and work in a book that will please anyone interested in the history of rock music.
A deep look at the work of one of the most insightful and incisive critics of late 20th-century American culture.
There's a fine line between insanity and pure genius ...The name Frank Zappa often conjures up the image of a deranged satirist. But for close to thirty years, between 1966...