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    Zappa: A Biography

    March 30,
    Frank Zappa is the musical idol of my youth. I listened to Zappa's album "Freak Out!" almost 50 years ago, in or , fascinated by what I considered the avant-garde freshness of the music, political references, and great sense of humor. Obviously, being a teenager, I dearly loved the scatological and obscene references. Later, when I tried to grow up, came my fascination with Mr. Zappa's strong stance for freedom of speech and against consumerism. As far as music is concerned I was very much into Mr. Zappa's guitar playing, and "Hot Rats" and "Shut Up n' Play Yer Guitar" were some of my most revered albums. Zappa's death in came as a big loss in my life. Zappa had been my hero, someone to look up to politically and musically.

    I read (or tried to read) several books about my hero. Zappa's autobiography - "The Real Frank Zappa Book" - made me adore my idol even more. I did not particularly like the unfocused "The Frank Zappa Companion", and could not very much get into "Frank Zappa: the Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play, full of technical details about the music, and sounding too much like a research paper on the conceptual continuity of Zappa's work for my taste. I have just now finished "Zappa" by Barry Miles. It is a great biography, a serious, e

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    Frank Zappa: Say publicly Biography

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    The Real Frank Zappa Book

    autobiography by Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso

    The Real Frank Zappa Book is an autobiography/memoir by Frank Zappa, co-written by Peter Occhiogrosso, and published by Poseidon Press. The text is copyright Frank Zappa, and copyright Simon & Schuster, Inc. Since , the book has been published in paperback by Touchstone Books.

    Contents

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    The Real Frank Zappa Book has 19 chapters:

    1. INTRODUCTION Book? What book?
    2. How Weird Am I, Anyway?
    3. There Goes the Neighborhood
    4. An Alternative to College
    5. Are We Having a Good Time Yet?
    6. The Log Cabin
    7. Send In the Clowns
    8. Drool, Britannia
    9. All About Music
    10. A Chapter for My Dad
    11. The One You've Been Waiting For
    12. Sticks & Stones
    13. America Drinks and Goes Marching
    14. All About Schmucks
    15. Marriage (as a Dada Concept)
    16. "Porn Wars"
    17. Church and State
    18. Practical Conservatism
    19. Failure
    20. The Last Word

    Reviews

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    Vanity Fair wrote of the book, "An autobiography of mostly hilarious storiesfireside war tales from the big bad days of the rockin' sixtiesprimer of the sonic avant-garde, the book bashes favorite Zappa targets and dashes a few myths about the man."[1]

    The New York Post said, "This book belongs in every home".[2]

    References

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    Frank Zappa and The Mot

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