The real Frank Zappa book - Frank Zappa

'A compelling and sometimes hilarious view of American culture from the worm's eye view, or much the same place, from the rest room of a tour bus . . . For anyone who likes groupie jokes, squirt jokes, stories of insane TV preachers cut with struggles with CBS and other greed-crazed cannibal giants' Snoo Wilson, Sunday Times

'Ever since he blew America's mind with his 1966 debut album, Freak Out, Zappa has been rock 'n' roll's demolitions expert, destroying the boundaries of the acceptable . . . The book is less a retrospective of the artist's career than skillfully edited snips of home movies, with liberal doses of political commentary . . .The latest in literature from the entrepreneur of weirdness' Chicago Tribune

'Frank Zappa is forty-eight, and ready to turn to a more literary form than the rock album to correct a few myths and record some home truths . . . The Real Frank Zappa Book manages to convey a vivid impression of its author, the kind of impression one gets from a long drive with a talkative hitchhiker' Charles Miller, Literary Review

'Part fireside tales from the big bad days of the rockin' sixties (including Cap'n Beefheart and the Mothers of Invention) and part primer of the sonic avant-garde, the book bashes favorite Zappa targets (censors, politicians, the music biz) and dashes a few myths about the man' Vanity Fair

'The brilliant satirist writes a life story every bit as anticommercial and against-the-grain as his records and gives off the buzz of a live wire with the current up' Kirkus Reviews