Electric Don Quixote : the definitive story of Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa's reputation as one of rock's maverick geniuses has continued to grow since his death in 1993. This successful biography has now been revised and reprinted and is still the most comprehensive chronicle of his extraordinary life and career. Neil Slaven has brilliantly brought together the complex strands of Zappa's life and work in a book that will please not just Zappa fans but anyone interested in the history of rock music. Fully illustrated and includes a comprehensive discography. Frank Zappa's reputation as one of rock's maverick geniuses has continued to grow since his death in 1993. This chronicle of his life and work stands as the classic account of a musician whose revolutionary talents defied convention and reinvented the possibilities of popular music. From the stunning 1966 Mothers of Invention debut album Freak Out to the avant-garde projects in the late 1980s. Zappa was tireless in breaking new ground both as a musician and a composer. Articulate, witty, subversive and endlessly inventive, he left the mainstream far behind and championed a free-spirited musical approach that in retrospect looks increasingly miraculous. In Electric Don Quixote, music historian Neil Slaven has brilliantly chronicled the complex strands of Zappa's life and work in a book that will please not just Zappa fans but anyone interested in the history of rock music. Frank Zappa's reputation as one of rock's maverick geniuses has continued to grow since his death in 1993. Revised and updated, Electric Don Quixote is still the most comprehensive chronicle of his extraordinary life and career.Author, Neil Slaven, brings together the complex strands of Zappa's life and work in a book that will please not just Zappa fans but anyone interested in the history of rock music.Fully illustrated and includes a comprehensive discography. On December 21, 1940, the birth of Francis Vincent Zappa Jr II (by his own terminology) was.