The Saga of Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
A Sunrise Book/E.P. Dutton & Co.,Inc.
1972
ISBN 0-87690-076-7
184 pp, paperback, 21 x 13,5 cm
English
The first book in English on Zappa. Moreover. This is the first and only American biography of Frank Zappa.
There is a hardcover version from this edition - ISBN 0-87690-066-X, Outerbridge and Lazard, New York.
Links
Rock 'n' Roll News @
Creem
Review by Andrew
Gordon @ Rolling Stone
Patricia Kennealy Morrison about David Walley
Review
by Chris McDaniel, The Great Speckled Bird
Review by Dave Eberhardt @
WIN
Busy Frank @ Sounds
ARF: Bibliography
Zappa Wiki Jawaka
Review by Jørgen Bennetzen
@ MM
The Saga of Frank Zappa, Then and Now
E.P.Dutton, New York
1980
ISBN 0-525-93153-8
184 pp, paperback, 21 x 13,5 cm
English
Second revised edition – concluding chapter added and discography updated. Title slightly changed.
Links
Source: Francesco Codeluppi
The Saga of Frank Zappa
Da Capo Press,
New York
1996 August 22
ISBN 0-306-80710-6
222 pp, paperback, 21 x 13,5 cm
English
Third edition, again revised and title slightly changed. Added – one final chapter, afterword, fanzines, videography and Zappa on the Internet.
Links
Frank Conversation: David Walley on Zappa interviewed by Paul
Remington (or
David Walley's Exclusive Interview)
Review by Ben Edmonds @
Mojo
The WELL: David Walley
This edition is still in print and available through Da Capo Press.
