Friday 24 November 2017

FRANK ZAPPA NEWS

Following the breakup of his band, Mothers Of Invention, Frank Zappa was asked by the Actuel Festival in Amougies, Belgium if he would be ...
... club for a while, it went through a roller-skating rink phase, before music resurged: B.B. King, Van Morrison, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Frank Zappa.
Without hesitation my answer is Frank Zappa, the eclectic, eccentric composer and musician (and guitar god) who died in 1993. My main motivation ...

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Frank Zappa is considered to be one of the most influential rock musicians of the late twentieth century. Between the start of his career in the late fifties and his death in 1993 he recorded and rele..


In 1965, Ray Collins asked Zappa to take over as guitarist in local R&B band the Soul Giants, following a fight between Collins and the group's original guitarist. Zappa accepted, and soon assumed..


On September 19, 1985, Frank Zappa testified before the United States Senate Commerce, Technology, and Transportation committee, attacking the Parents Music Resource Center or PMRC, a music organizati..

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