Casting his eye on the decade's pop charts, one mammoth 1982 album struck Frank Zappa as blunting the popular music palette ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the Mothers of Invention’s 1969 Uncle Meat, you can hear Frank Zappa exhort keyboardist Don Preston to climb up to the Royal ...

A previously unheard album of Frank Zappa material called Funky Nothingness will be released on June 30. Recorded in 1970, the songs are believed to have been earmarked for a follow-up to Zappa’s 1969 ...

On CNET's I'm So Obsessed podcast, director Alex Winter and Frank Zappa's son Ahmet discuss making the documentary Zappa. As Managing Editor, I lead CNET's mobile team, covering news and reviews on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It might be the case that the only person who can truly play Frank Zappa’s genre-bending work is another Zappa. The legendary ...

Ringo Starr — dressed as Frank Zappa, mustache and all, yet playing someone named “Larry the Dwarf” – descends on wires from the ceiling of a TV studio while holding a prop genie lamp. Our Master of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Some have called the 1971 European tour of Frank Zappa and his band, ...

Unlike The Beatles, Frank Zappa never had a hit single called “Revolution.” But this erstwhile San Diego music visionary and cultural provocateur did help inspire a nonviolent revolution that, in 1989 ...

Anti-maskers trying to overcome the Black Plague of the 21st Century through force of will? Streaming media services paying musicians pennies on the dollar? Celebrities who are famous for being famous ...

I am eager to let Alex Winter know this Zoom interview for his new film isn’t with some noob. When he pops up on my screen to discuss Zappa, the first documentary with access to the heralded “Zappa ...

It's 1991 and controversial American musician Frank Zappa is standing in front of a capacity crowd in Prague's Sports Hall. In the wake of the Cold War ending and Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution, ...

Plenty of jealous boyfriends have been peeved through the years when their girlfriends get into a major rock musician. Unfortunately for Frank Zappa, one particularly jilted boyfriend decided to get ...