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Articles about Frank Zappa:
- Frank Zappa is the main entry about the artist.
Articles about his albums:
- Freak Out! (1966)
- Absolutely Free (1967)
- Lumpy Gravy (1968)
- We're Only in It for the Money (1968)
- Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (1968)
- Uncle Meat (1969)
- Hot Rats (1969)
- Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970)
- Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)
- Chunga's Revenge (1970)
- Fillmore East, June 1971 (1971)
- 200 Motels (1971)
- Just Another Band from L.A. (1972)
- Waka/Jawaka (1972)
- The Grand Wazoo (1972)
- Over-Nite Sensation (1973)
- Apostrophe (') (1974)
- Roxy & Elsewhere (1974)
- One Size Fits All (1975)
- Bongo Fury (1975)
- Zoot Allures (1976)
- Zappa in New York (1978)
- Studio Tan (1978)
- Sleep Dirt (1978)
- Sheik Yerbouti (1979)
- Orchestral Favorites (1979)
- Joe's Garage (1979)
- Tinseltown Rebellion (1981)
- Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (1981)
- You Are What You Is (1981)
- Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (1982)
- The Man from Utopia (1983)
- London Symphony Orchestra (1983/1987)
- The Perfect Stranger (1984)
- Them or Us (1984)
- Thing-Fish (1984)
- Francesco Zappa (1984)
- Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention (1985)
- Does Humor Belong in Music? (1986)
- Jazz from Hell (1986)
- Guitar (1988)
- Broadway the Hard Way (1988)
- The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life (1991)
- Make a Jazz Noise Here (1991)
- The Yellow Shark (1993)
- Civilization Phaze III (1994)
- Läther (1996)
Albums Zappa produced:
- Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart.
Films starring Frank Zappa:
- The World's Greatest Sinner (1962): A B-movie Zappa wrote the soundtrack for.
- Run Home Slow (1965): Zappa wrote the music for this B-western.
- Head (1968): He has a small cameo in this bizarre comedy starring The Monkees.
- Medium Cool (1969): A film classic with music by Zappa and The Mothers of Invention in some scenes. The film director, Haskell Wexler, also worked with Zappa on the low-budget movie "Uncle Meat".
- 200 Motels (1971): A satirical movie about life of a rock band on the road, mostly starring the Mothers themselves, Keith Moon, Ringo Starr, Pamela des Barres but in which Zappa himself is hardly in it.
- Baby Snakes (1979): Almost three hour long concert movie of Zappa's Halloween shows in 1977.
- Does Humor Belong in Music? (1985): A direct-to-video concert movie release.
- Uncle Meat (1988): A video with home footage from 1971 and 1988, intercut with far more interesting footage of a Mothers concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1968.
Literature
- The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989): His autobiography.
People associated with Zappa:
- Captain Beefheart
- Bruce Bickford
- Tim Buckley: the folk singer recorded five albums for Zappa's labels Straight and Disc Reet.
- Pierre Boulez
- Alice Cooper: the rock singer recorded three albums for Zappa's Straight Records and considers Frank a mentor, as Zappa's career advice helped shape him into the figure he's become today.
- Ted Nugent: the rock guitarist recorded two albums for Zappa's Straight Records, and the two were on friendly terms, owing to a shared dislike of drug use.
- Cal Schenkel
