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Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.
As a self-taught composer and performer, Zappa's diverse musical influences led him to create music that was sometimes difficult to categorize. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern, along with 1950s rhythm and blues and doo-wop music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands, later switching to electric guitar. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. He continued this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was rock, jazz or classical.
Zappa's output is unified by a conceptual continuity he termed "Project/Object", with numerous musical phrases, ideas, and characters reappearing across his albums. His lyrics reflected his iconoclastic views of established social and political processes, structures and movements, often humorously so. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech, self-education, political participation and the abolition of censorship. Unlike many other rock musicians of his generation, he personally disapproved of drugs and seldom used them, but supported their decriminalization and regulation.
During Zappa's lifetime, he was a highly productive and prolific artist, earning widespread acclaim from critics and fellow musicians. He had some commercial success, particularly in Europe, and worked as an independent artist for most of his career. He remains a major influence on musicians and composers. His honors include his 1995 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the 1997 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000, he was ranked number 36 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at number 71 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", and in 2011 at number 22 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
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Albums
Roxy by Proxy
Road Tapes, Venue #2
Road Tapes Venue #1
One Shot Deal
Stairway to Heaven Single
Download at Amazon.com®Montana (Whipping Floss) Single
Download at Amazon.com®Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Single
Zomby Woof Single
Peaches en Regalia Single
Jazz From Hell
Them or Us
Thing‐Fish
Valley Girl Single
You Are What You Is
I Don’t Wanna Get Drafted / Ancient Armaments Single
Joe’s Garage: Act I
Orchestral Favorites
Sheik Yerbouti
Sleep Dirt
Dancin’ Fool Single
Studio Tan
Zoot Allures
Waka/Jawaka
Chunga’s Revenge
Hot Rats
Bobby Brown Single
Sharleena / Bognor Regis Single
Popular Songs
- Marqueson’s Chicken
- Whippin’ Post
- Galoot Up‐Date
- Harry & Rhonda
- Suite for Sampler and Orchestra from Surrogate Cities: VIII. Menuet / l’Ingenieur
- Suite for Sampler and Orchestra from Surrogate Cities: IX. Gavotte / N-Touch remix
- Suite for Sampler and Orchestra from Surrogate Cities: X. Air
- The Perfect Stranger
- G-Spot tornado
- Suite for Sampler and Orchestra from Surrogate Cities: VII. Chaconne / Kantorloops
- Suite for Sampler and Orchestra from Surrogate Cities: IV. Gigue
- Suite for Sampler and Orchestra from Surrogate Cities: I. Sarabande / N-Touch
- Suite for Sampler and Orchestra from Surrogate Cities: V. Bourée / Wildcard
- Suite for Sampler and Orchestra from Surrogate Cities: II. Allemande / Les Ruines
- Suite for Sampler and Orchestra from Surrogate Cities: VI Passacaglia
- Suite for Sampler and Orchestra from Surrogate Cities: III. Courante
- The Sheik Yerbouti Tango
- King Kong / Chunga's Revenge / Mr. Green Genes
- The Gumbo Variations
- Cheepnis
- Dog Breath Variations / Uncle Meat
- Cheepnis - Percussion
- "Carved in the Rock"
- Oh No / Son of Orange County
- Pygmy Twylyte
- Room Service
- More Trouble Every Day
- Forentine Pogen
- The Dog Breath Variations / Uncle Meat
- Earl of Duke