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Frank Zappa

March 2025

  • Kevin John Edusei dirigent Photo: Marco Borggreve

    LPO/Edusei review – devastating Wijeratne and Martinů meet zany fun with Zappa

    London Philharmonic programme brought together aching music of exile and displacement with kooky excursions by the pop fusion guru

January 2025

  • A section of Helen Saunders’ Untitled Drawing (1913). Ink and watercolour on paper.

    Brief letters
    A brush with Britain’s first abstract artist

  • Damian Homer, 51, who was jailed for life in November 2024 for killing his partner's mother, Wendy Francis, 61, after she came to her daughter's aid.

    Brief letters
    Putting the focus on male violence

August 2024

  • Moon Unit and Frank Zappa interviewed onMTV in 1982.

    Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa review – rock and a hard place

  • Zappa Family Portrait<br>LOS ANGELES - FEBRUARY 1968: Rock and roll guitariist Frank Zappa poses for a portrait in Laurel Canyon with his wife Gail Zappa and daughter Moon Unit Zappa in February 1968 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa review – waspish, funny account of life as Frank Zappa’s daughter

March 2022

  • A day in his life … Frank Zappa at Newport jazz festival in 1970.

    Total Immersion: Frank Zappa review – a suitably eclectic day-long tribute

    From a film Q&A punctuated by musicians in the audience to barnstorming performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Guildhall students, this was a stunning celebration of his orchestral works

October 2021

  • Kerry McNabb and Frank Zappa.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: inside the world of prolific guitar virtuoso Frank Zappa

    Alex Winter’s documentary offers previously unseen footage of Zappa and his work. Plus: Mary Beard looks at the ongoing cultural exchange between the UK and Australia. Here’s what to watch this evening

June 2021

  • Outtake from the cover shoot for Starcrawler’s single She Gets Around

    ‘She had no fear mechanism’: the incredible, outrageous life of Miss Mercy

    The life of the co-founder of Frank Zappa’s band GTOs and industry wild child is explored in a raucous new book

February 2021

  • Frank Zappa.

    Zappa review – a maverick sensibility

  • Frank Zappa, the subject of a new documentary by Alex Winter

    Zappa review – under the skin of the wild man of American rock

November 2020

  • Frank Zappa. ‘Towards the end of his life, he realized that people were beginning to get the substance of who he was as an artist.’

    'Frank didn't adhere to any movements': behind the Zappa documentary

    A new film aims to reflect the unusual life and career of Frank Zappa with help from his family and those who knew him best

June 2020

  • Keith Tippett, Musiker, Pianist, Jazz<br>(GERMANY OUT) Keith Tippett, Musiker, Pianist, Jazz - beim Deutschen Jazzfestival 2012 in Frankfurt am Main (Photo by Manfred Roth/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

    Keith Tippett obituary

    Brilliant jazz pianist and composer who could make the outlands of modern music feel like the most hospitable of places

December 2019

  • Frank Zappa during Hot Rats sessions

    'He was a musical warlock': reflecting on Frank Zappa's greatest album at 50

    The 50th anniversary of the experimental musician’s album Hot Rats carries with it resurfaced material and a re-examination of its finer points

November 2019

  • Siouxsie Sioux, London 1980.

    'From Abba to Zappa': Michael Putland's shots of rock royalty – in pictures

    Putland, who died this week aged 72, was said to have snapped every major musical star from A-Z. Here’s a selection of images from a new book that pairs images of the many stars he captured over his 50-year-career with his own memories
    Gallery12

May 2019

  • Holographic projections, from left, of Maria Callas, Tupac Shakur, Roy Orbison and Whitney Houston.

    Back to life, back to virtual reality as music stars return to stage as holograms

  • Flare for the spectacular … Frank Zappa.

    The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa review – toking poodles and holographic necromancy

January 2019

  • Stocking Moments Bananarama; Florence Ballard; Sugababes, The Dixie Chicks: Stup Up & Sing poster

    Giant nappies, CD burning and 'perv bops': when girl bands go wrong

    The history of girl group’s problematic pasts, from the shocking undertones of teen punks Bow Wow Wow to boycotting presidents and bloodied tampons

April 2018

  • A hand going through record sleeves

    Brief letters
    Kicking up a stink on Record Store Day

    Letters: Record buying | Inventing country rock | Like Frank Zappa | At the Tate | Prince Charles and the unBritish | Cotton buds

March 2018

  • Abba

    Record Store Day 2018: the exclusive releases in full

    From Abba to Zero 7, the 500 singles, EPs, LPs and cassettes released for the annual celebration of independent record shops

February 2018

  • Simon Ratcliffe (left) and Felix Buxton of Basement Jaxx

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about rendezvous

    Artists ready to meet up for this week’s date include Basement Jaxx, Canned Heat, Frank Zappa and the Rolling Stones
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