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Frank Zappa

March 2022

  • A day in his life … Frank Zappa at Newport jazz festival in 1970.

    Total Immersion: Frank Zappa review – a suitably eclectic day-long tribute

    From a film Q&A punctuated by musicians in the audience to barnstorming performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Guildhall students, this was a stunning celebration of his orchestral works

October 2021

  • Kerry McNabb and Frank Zappa.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: inside the world of prolific guitar virtuoso Frank Zappa

    Alex Winter’s documentary offers previously unseen footage of Zappa and his work. Plus: Mary Beard looks at the ongoing cultural exchange between the UK and Australia. Here’s what to watch this evening

June 2021

  • Outtake from the cover shoot for Starcrawler’s single She Gets Around

    ‘She had no fear mechanism’: the incredible, outrageous life of Miss Mercy

    The life of the co-founder of Frank Zappa’s band GTOs and industry wild child is explored in a raucous new book

February 2021

November 2020

  • Frank Zappa. ‘Towards the end of his life, he realized that people were beginning to get the substance of who he was as an artist.’

    'Frank didn't adhere to any movements': behind the Zappa documentary

    A new film aims to reflect the unusual life and career of Frank Zappa with help from his family and those who knew him best

June 2020

  • Keith Tippett, Musiker, Pianist, Jazz<br>(GERMANY OUT) Keith Tippett, Musiker, Pianist, Jazz - beim Deutschen Jazzfestival 2012 in Frankfurt am Main (Photo by Manfred Roth/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

    Keith Tippett obituary

    Brilliant jazz pianist and composer who could make the outlands of modern music feel like the most hospitable of places

December 2019

  • Frank Zappa during Hot Rats sessions

    'He was a musical warlock': reflecting on Frank Zappa's greatest album at 50

    The 50th anniversary of the experimental musician’s album Hot Rats carries with it resurfaced material and a re-examination of its finer points

November 2019

  • Siouxsie Sioux, London 1980.

    'From Abba to Zappa': Michael Putland's shots of rock royalty – in pictures

    Putland, who died this week aged 72, was said to have snapped every major musical star from A-Z. Here’s a selection of images from a new book that pairs images of the many stars he captured over his 50-year-career with his own memories

May 2019

  • Holographic projections, from left, of Maria Callas, Tupac Shakur, Roy Orbison and Whitney Houston.

    Back to life, back to virtual reality as music stars return to stage as holograms

  • Flare for the spectacular … Frank Zappa.

    The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa review – toking poodles and holographic necromancy

January 2019

  • Stocking Moments Bananarama; Florence Ballard; Sugababes, The Dixie Chicks: Stup Up & Sing poster

    Giant nappies, CD burning and 'perv bops': when girl bands go wrong

    The history of girl group’s problematic pasts, from the shocking undertones of teen punks Bow Wow Wow to boycotting presidents and bloodied tampons

April 2018

  • A hand going through record sleeves

    Brief letters
    Kicking up a stink on Record Store Day

    Letters: Record buying | Inventing country rock | Like Frank Zappa | At the Tate | Prince Charles and the unBritish | Cotton buds

March 2018

  • Abba

    Record Store Day 2018: the exclusive releases in full

    From Abba to Zero 7, the 500 singles, EPs, LPs and cassettes released for the annual celebration of independent record shops

February 2018

  • Simon Ratcliffe (left) and Felix Buxton of Basement Jaxx

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about rendezvous

  • ‘Futurist and hologram enthusiast’: Frank Zappa

    Cosmik debris: Frank Zappa's son reveals details of hologram tour

November 2016

  • EAT THAT QUESTION Frank Zappa film

    Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words review – portrait of a musical revolutionary

    The rock star and provocateur is imperturbably articulate and droll in this entertaining documentary made of archive footage and interview clips

September 2016

  • Brown shoes in the City of London

    Brief letters
    Never wear a cravat with brown shoes

    Letters: Ed Balls | Brown shoes | Cravats | Quick Crossword

June 2016

  • Karl Dallas protesting at Aldermaston, Berkshire, in 2008 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Easter march from London.

    Karl Dallas obituary

    Influential music journalist, singer, songwriter and political radical who played a key role in the folk scene of the 1950s and 60s

May 2016

  • Author Alex Ross has won numerous awards including the Guardian First Book Award in 2008 for The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century.

    Reading list
    The shock of the new: how classical music turned atonal

    Guardian member John Keenan reviews The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross, a study of how classical music reflected the 20th century’s cultural and political upheavals
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