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Recounts the career of the rock music performer.

This new, completely revised and updated edition contains a wealth of new material, excerpts from the author's diaries and private letters home about life in Ho

Frank Zappa's music has a unique and easily recognisable quality, and is a brilliant synthesis of a wide range of cultural influences. This book focuses on just

Since his untimely death from prostate cancer in 1993, the legend of iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa has continued to grow. The years following his passing ha