Frank Zappa
LPO/Edusei review – devastating Wijeratne and Martinů meet zany fun with Zappa
London Philharmonic programme brought together aching music of exile and displacement with kooky excursions by the pop fusion guru
Clive Paget
13, Mar, 2025 @3:54 PM
A brush with Britain’s first abstract artist | Brief letters
Brief letters: Contenders for the title | Yellow snow | Fluffy jelly | Sunday tea | Tiling with condensed milk
03, Jan, 2025 @5:26 PM
Putting the focus on male violence | Brief letters
Brief letters: Killed women count | Demon Copperhead | From GP to 111 to A&E | Country diary philosophy | Baited breath
02, Jan, 2025 @5:40 PM
Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa review – rock and a hard place
Frank Zappa’s daughter on her wildly inappropriate upbringing and its aftermath
Kitty Empire
15, Aug, 2024 @10:00 AM
Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa review – waspish, funny account of life as Frank Zappa’s daughter
This memoir about being fathered by the 70s rock oddball and ‘pagan absurdist’ is an extraordinary tale of survival
Nick Duerden
05, Aug, 2024 @6:00 AM
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
John Lewis
20, Mar, 2022 @1:24 PM
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
Phil Harrison, Ali Catterall and Graeme Virtue
22, Oct, 2021 @5:20 AM
‘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
Jim Farber
02, Jun, 2021 @3:00 PM
Zappa review – a maverick sensibility
Alex Winter’s exhilarating documentary uses Frank Zappa’s own archive to draw us into the world of a musical one-off
Wendy Ide
21, Feb, 2021 @11:00 AM
Zappa review – under the skin of the wild man of American rock
Alex Winter weaves the early experiences of eccentric musician Frank Zappa into a portrait of the artist as a flawed man
Andrew Pulver
19, Feb, 2021 @7:00 AM
'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
Jim Farber
25, Nov, 2020 @8:09 AM
Keith Tippett obituary
Brilliant jazz pianist and composer who could make the outlands of modern music feel like the most hospitable of places
John Fordham
17, Jun, 2020 @4:22 PM
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