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5!!Articles about Frank Zappa:
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7[[index]]
8* Music/FrankZappa is the main entry about the artist.
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10!!Articles about his albums:
11* ''Music/FreakOutAlbum'' (1966)
12* ''Music/AbsolutelyFree'' (1967)
13* ''Music/LumpyGravy'' (1968)
14* ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney'' (1968)
15* ''Music/CruisingWithRubenAndTheJets'' (1968)
16* ''Music/UncleMeat'' (1969)
17* ''Music/HotRats'' (1969)
18* ''Music/BurntWeenySandwich'' (1970)
19* ''Music/WeaselsRippedMyFlesh'' (1970)
20* ''Music/ChungasRevenge'' (1970)
21* ''Music/FillmoreEastJune1971'' (1971)
22* ''Film/TwoHundredMotels'' (1971)
23* ''Music/JustAnotherBandFromLA'' (1972)
24* ''Music/WakaJawaka'' (1972)
25* ''Music/TheGrandWazoo'' (1972)
26* ''Music/OverNiteSensation'' (1973)
27* ''Music/{{Apostrophe}}'' (1974)
28* ''Music/RoxyAndElsewhere'' (1974)
29* ''Music/OneSizeFitsAll'' (1975)
30* ''Music/BongoFury'' (1975)
31* ''Music/ZootAllures'' (1976)
32* ''Music/ZappaInNewYork'' (1978)
33* ''Music/StudioTan'' (1978)
34* ''Music/SleepDirt'' (1978)
35* ''Music/SheikYerbouti'' (1979)
36* ''Music/OrchestralFavorites'' (1979)
37* ''Music/JoesGarage'' (1979)
38* ''Music/TinseltownRebellion'' (1981)
39* ''Music/ShutUpNPlayYerGuitar'' (1981)
40* ''Music/YouAreWhatYouIs'' (1981)
41* ''Music/ShipArrivingTooLateToSaveADrowningWitch'' (1982)
42* ''Music/TheManFromUtopia'' (1983)
43* ''Music/LondonSymphonyOrchestra'' (1983/1987)
44* ''Music/ThePerfectStranger'' (1984)
45* ''Music/ThemOrUs'' (1984)
46* ''Music/ThingFish'' (1984)
47* ''Music/FrancescoZappa'' (1984)
48* ''Music/FrankZappaMeetsTheMothersOfPrevention'' (1985)
49* ''Music/DoesHumorBelongInMusic'' (1986)
50* ''Music/JazzFromHell'' (1986)
51* ''Music/{{Guitar}}'' (1988)
52* ''Music/BroadwayTheHardWay'' (1988)
53* ''Music/TheBestBandYouNeverHeardInYourLife'' (1991)
54* ''Music/MakeAJazzNoiseHere'' (1991)
55* ''Music/TheYellowShark'' (1993)
56* ''Music/CivilizationPhazeIII'' (1994)
57* ''Music/{{Lather}}'' (1996)
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59!! Albums Zappa produced:
60* ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'' by Captain Beefheart.
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62!! Films starring Frank Zappa:
63* ''The World's Greatest Sinner'' (1962): A B-movie Zappa wrote the soundtrack for.
64* ''Run Home Slow'' (1965): Zappa wrote the music for this B-western.
65* ''Film/{{Head}}'' (1968): He has a small cameo in this bizarre comedy starring Franchise/TheMonkees.
66* ''Film/MediumCool'' (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".
67* ''Film/TwoHundredMotels'' (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.
68* ''Baby Snakes'' (1979): Almost three hour long concert movie of Zappa's Halloween shows in 1977.
69* ''Music/DoesHumorBelongInMusic'' (1985): A direct-to-video concert movie release.
70* ''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.
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72!! Literature
73* ''Literature/TheRealFrankZappaBook'' (1989): His autobiography.
74
75!! People associated with Zappa:
76* Music/CaptainBeefheart
77* Creator/BruceBickford
78* Music/TimBuckley: the folk singer recorded five albums for Zappa's labels Straight and Disc Reet.
79* Music/PierreBoulez
80* Music/AliceCooper: 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.
81* Music/TedNugent: 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.
82* Music/CalSchenkel
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84!! References, parodies, shout-outs, homages,... to Zappa
85* ReferencedBy/FrankZappa
86[[/index]]

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