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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. |
9 | |
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) |
58 | |
59 | !! Albums Zappa produced: |
60 | * ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'' by Captain Beefheart. |
61 | |
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. |
71 | |
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 |
83 | |
84 | !! References, parodies, shout-outs, homages,... to Zappa |
85 | * ReferencedBy/FrankZappa |
86 | [[/index]] |
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