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Frank Zappa’s Best
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AS the late Frank Zappa was born on…
21st December, 1940, today would have been his eightieth birthday. Zappa died in 1993, and his remarkable work was characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, and sonic experimentation. In a career spanning more than thirty years, Zappa composed so many different genres together and he produced almost all of the sixty-plus albums that he released with his band, The Mothers of Invention, and as a solo artist - and he inspired the likes of Jeff Buckley, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, and The Beatles. I am not going to try and collect together all the best songs from his albums but, as it is his eightieth birthday, I feel a selection of some of his best songs is fitting. Here is a collection of great cuts from one of music’s…
REAL innovators.