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Frank Vincent Zappa [nb 1] (/ ˈ z æ p ə / ZAP-ə; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.
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Jul 23, 2024 · Frank Zappa, American composer, guitarist, and satirist of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. One of the great polymaths of the rock era, he was an instinctive postmodernist who demolished the barriers and hierarchies separating ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture. Learn more about his music and his significance.
- Charles Shaar Murray
Dec 21, 2023 · To them, Zappa was a grotesque and irksome pervert whose soulless music knotted the knees and brought dance floors to a shuddering halt. “I like recreation,” Frank shrugged at the time when asked if his songs were autobiographical.
- Mark Ellen
Apr 2, 2014 · Guitarist and composer Frank Zappa made music from the 1960s to the 1980s. Learn about his life and career, including his jazz-rock fusion album Hot Rats , on Biography.com.
- Zappa’s vault makes Prince’s look like a safety deposit box. There have been glimpses into Zappa’s vaults — Classic Albumsspecials dedicated to his Over-Nite Sensation and ApostropheLPs have teased the epic scope of the collection, while the Zappa Family Trust’s steady flow of semiannual archival releases hints at the amount of indispensable audio that still lingers in there.
- Zappa originally dreamed of being a film editor, not a musician. “I became obsessed with editing, and I would edit just because I liked to edit,” Zappa says in voiceover.
- Unsurprisingly, the man who penned “Let’s Make the Water Turn Black” had a weird childhood. The son of a chemist, Zappa states that he learned how to make gunpowder at the age of six, and that his father’s occupation at a Maryland factory where chemical weapons like nerve gas were made left its mark on his psyche and worldview.
- A magazine article about “ugly music” ignited Zappa’s interest in composition. As Zappa reveals in the documentary, his parents were “opposed to any involvement in music that I might be interested in,” but a magazine article about record store magnate Sam Goody and his ability to sell “ugly music” — specifically, The Complete Works of Edgard Varèse, an avant-garde French composer — piqued Zappa’s interest.
Nov 27, 2020 · The new ZAPPA film goes behind the music to reveal who he really was and his remarkable life. Here are 10 Frank Zappa facts from the film
Aug 19, 2023 · Ask anyone now, 30 years after his death from prostate cancer in 1993, who Frank Zappa was and they might describe any number of people. Not just a rock star, but an avant-garde jazz musician, a classical composer, a filmmaker, a writer, satirist and university lecturer.
