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• 9 May. Dutch Popfoto, August 1970. Nice Amsterdam street scene with a meeting with Zappa.

• 9 May. "Frank Talking" - interview with FZ by Roy Carr. New Musical Express, 27 November 1971. Interesting interview, where Mark Volman is also participating actively. Part one only. If you happen to have the next issue of NME, 4 December 1971, your assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

• 8 May. Italian monthly magazine Popster, where in almost every issue you can find something about FZ.
  - September 1977, Zappa interviews himself.
  - February 1978, article on Gibson SG.
  - March 1978, short article with Zappa-related news.
  Thereafter in April 1978 a long article with interview followed.

• 7 May. Rolling Stone, Italian edition, June 1980. Disputes over the release of the single I don't wanna get drafted.

• 6 May. From Italy, L'ultimo Buscadero, June 1981. Contains a FZ profile artcle, discography and Tinsel Town Rebellion review.

• 5 May. Italian counterculture magazine Re Nudo, October 1974. 9 September 1974 Milan concert review.

• 4 May. Disc and Music Echo, 21 August 1971. Fillmore East album review by David Hughes. This can be easily your favourite album review of all time: "Masochism is not one of my favourite indulgences, and when I said last week that I'd not heard the Mothers since their very first trendy LP the last thing I expected was to be landed with this, undoubtedly the biggest waste of time, money, wax, instruments and hall hire in the history of modern music! "

• 3 May. French monthly Rock En Stock, April 1978, containing:
  - Zappa in Paris concert review
  - Zappa in New York album review
  - Zappa in New York another album review

• 3 May. Joe's Garage all 3 acts reviewed. French Rock En Stock, May 1980.

• 3 May. Two album reviews from German monthly Sounds.
  - One Size Fits All - August 1975
  - Bongo Fury - December 1975

• 2 May. A couple of German Popfoto issues from 1969 and 1970. Nice pictures included, like the drumming FZ.

• 2 May. French monthly Rock En Stock, February 1979.

• 2 May. Men's lifestyle magazine FHM, Lithuanian edition, February 2009. FZ profile article with several pictures.

• 2 May. Nuovo Sound, 26 December 1975. Bongo Fury review.

• 1 May. Guitarist, #472, June 2021. Frank Zappa and the guitar revolution he ignited. Included are interviews with Alex Winter, Ahmet Zappa, Steve Vai, Mike Keneally and Frank Zappa.

• 30 April. Nuovo Sound, January 1979. "The only authentic rock composer".

• 30 April. French weekly Maxipop, 19 December 1972. Grand Wazoo review.

• 29 April. Rare Italian underground magazine Get Ready, issue #0. The magazine is joint-shaped. Contains Frank Zappa's article "Hey Hey Hey, Mister Snazzy Exec!" translated to Italian.

• 26 April. French weekly Telerama, 20 January 1973. "The wave of Pop collides with Rock".

• 26 April. Amazing fantasy by Riccardo Bertoncelli in Gong, October 1974.

• 26 April. Buscadero, April 2019. Zappa In New York - 40th Anniversary Edition.

• 25 April. Buscadero, September 2019. Orchestral Favourites - 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

• 25 April. Beat Instrumental, August 1969. Uncle Meat review.

• 24 April. Italian Gong, a monthly magazine of music and progressive culture. Very first test issue #0, July 1974. "Frank Zappa - Apostrophe" by Marco Fumagalli.

• 24 April. Halloween 73 review. Buscadero, December 2019.

• 24 April. "The Mothers Of Invention - Cover Art - Burnt Weeny Sandwich", from Raro!, February 2005.

• 24 April. Rock & Folk, December 2005.

• 23 April. Tinseltown Rebellion review by Massimo Bassoli. Rockstar, July 1981.

• 23 April. Last issue of the French weekly Maxipop, 13 March 1973. "Zappa is interested in New York Dolls".

• 23 April. Russian monthly Muzykalny Olimp, December 1993, with Zappa obituary.

• 22 April. Interview with FZ by Massimo Bassoli & Michael Pergolani. Popster, April 1978.

• 22 April. French monthly Extra, January 1971. Chunga's Revenge review.

• 21 April. "J.Hendrix - F.Zappa - L.Corryell - J.McLaughlin" by Georges Locatelli. From French Jazz Hot, May 1972.

• 21 April. Ciao 2001, 28 May 1969.

• 20 April. Cuadermos Efe Eme is a quarterly magazine published by Spanish monthly magazine Efe Eme. Current issue has a FZ cover story.

• 20 April. Dutch Hitweek, 28 March 1969. Indeed very fair: "In April, [the 14h Uncle Meat film] will be on display at the New Yorker Theater in Manhattan. When You enter You will receive (as in a guarded parking lot) a ticket with the time of arrival stamped on it. When you come out of the cinema you pay according to the number of hours you have been watching. 50 cents per hour with a maximum of $ 3."

• 20. April. Rock & Folk, special issue "Absolutely Live", December 1997.

• 19 April. Italian weekly Europeo, 12 September 1987. Special issue "40 years of rock".

• 19 April. French monthly Rock Sound, January 1994. Zappa dossier including profile article and selected discography.

• 18 April. "Test your English with Zappa" - quite an original You Are What You Is advert in Guitare Magazine, April 1982.

• 18 April. "Frank Zappa's puzzling film" by Armando Gallo, from Ciao 2001, 15 December 1971.

• 18 April. Burnt Weeny Sandwich review. Best, April 1970.

• 17 April. Rock & Folk, August / September 1968. Article on Californian music.

• 17 April. Italian weekly Ciao 2001, 2 December 1970. Article on the Mothers Of Invention and the Band.

• 17 April. Zappa performing with French group Docdaïl. Monthly magazine Best, March 1970.

• 17 April. Uncle Meat review. Rock & Folk, August 1969.

• 15 April. Eric Burdon recorded with Frank Zappa the single "Another Side Of Life". Here are three different publications with this news from 1966:
  - British New Musical Express, 4 November
  - Dutch Hitweek, 11 November
  - American KRLA Beat, 3 December
  See also "The Boss Mother Meets The Animals", from Hit Parader, July 1967.

• 15 April. Uncle Meat review. Hitweek, 25 April 1969.

• 15 April. Absolutely Free review. Rock & Folk, May 1968.

• 14 April. Swedish Schlager, June 1983. The English journalist Karl Dallas met Frank Zappa in connection with the staging of an orchestral piece in London: "Frank Zappas problem".

• 14 April. Alain Dister's report from California, with pictures of FZ, Carl Franzoni and Jimmy Carl Black. Rock & Folk, February 1967.

• 13 April. Rock & Folk, October 1967. Hippies special issue with a lot of pictures.

• 13 April. "Thus spoke Zappa", from Rock & Folk, February 1970.

• 13 April. Gong, December 1974. Very critical Roxy & Elsewhere album review by Riccardo Bertoncelli.

• 12 April. Fillmore East, June 1971 review. Ciao 2001, December 1971.

• 12 April. Italian Music, June 1992. Reconstruction of the year 1967 for FZ and the MOI.

• 11 April. French monthly Extra, February 1971. A lot to read:
  - interview "Frank Zappa"
  - another interview "Aynsley Dunbar"
  - concert review "Zappa a Paris"
  - and one concert review more "Et Jean-Luc Ponty"
  - and pictures.

• 10 April. Jazz Magazine, February 1972. 200 Motels review.

• 10 April. Mothermania reviewed in Beat Instrumental, June 1969.

• 10 April. Newport jazz festival report. Rock & Folk, September 1969.

• 9 April. "Frank Zappa" interview by S. Gunn. Italian magazine by Massimo Bassoli Tuttifrutti, July 1984.

• 9 April. Profile article on Jimmy Carl Black. Rock & Folk, January 2009.

• 8 April. German fanzine Arf-Dossier #107, March 2021.

• 8 April. Chunga's Revenge review. Ciao 2001, 31 March 1971.

• 8 April. Chunga's Revenge review. Vinile #15, 2018.

• 8 April. Ciao 2001, 23 July 1970. Bath festival article with a lot of pictures.

• 6 April. UNI, December 2020. A set of lyrics by Zappa translated into Czech.

• 6 April. Ciao 2001, 17 December 1969. Uncle Meat review.

• 6 April. Ciao 2001, 12 March 1969. Article on London underground press with the MOI pictures.

• 6 April. Italian weekly Ciao 2001 published often stuff on FZ. We will add some other issues of this magazine soon. On 12 May 1971 they had a centerfold poster.

• 5 April. Washington University St. Louis concert review in Down Beat, 12 January 1978.

• 5 April. "Ringo als Frank Zappa". Dutch Aloha, 11 November 1971.

• 5 April. Lumpy Gravy with all of Zappa's oeuvre has been reviewed in Super Sound, 23 February 1973.

• 4 April. Mexican monthly Idolos del Rock, October 1970.

• 4 April. Super Sound, 30 October 1972. Full-page picture included.

• 3 April. Dutch underground Aloha, December 1971. It is very welcome to read negative reviews. "II don't like Zappa anymore" is about 200 Motels. And the publication has more interesting content.

• 3 April. "Frank Zappa: I'm the best at wah-wah!" interview from Best, February 1971.

• 3 April. Rock & Folk, October 2016.

• 2 April. Pop Music, 9 December 1971. Some original photos of the Monteux Casino incident.

• 2 April. What critic Heinemann has to say about GTO's album Permanent Damage. Down Beat, 28 May 1970.

• 2 April. Article and pictures of the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music. Best, August 1970.

• 2 April. Italian monthly of music and high fidelity Music, April 1979.

• 1 April. Damp, #5, Winter 1990. A Captain Beefheart special issue.

• 1 April. French monthly Best, July 1969.

• 1 April. Rock & Folk, June 2006. Gail, Ahmet & Dweezil Zappa.

• 1 April. Paris concert review in Jazz Magazine, November 1974.

• 31 March. Grand Wazoo is a great album and definitely deserves a review like "W Zappa". From Super Sound, 5 February 1973.

• 31 March. Rock & Folk, July 1972. Article by Alain Dister, lyrics of some Mothers' songs and a poster.

• 31 Mach. Mojo, August 1994. Review of The Negative Dialectics Of Poodle Play by Ben Watson.

• 30 March. Peter Van Laarhoven has compiled a series of three books. The Others Of Invention lists bands and artists who have recorded and released compositions written by Frank Zappa. First two volumes are already available as hardcover or paperback books.

• 29 March. Down Beat, 25 June 1970. Burnt Weenie Sandwich review. "It may well be that in the year 2000 (we should live so long), the Mothers' music will be considered the highest level of music attained during the present period."

• 29 March. Hippie paper from Denmark - Superlove, November 1968. "Zappa's rebellion is not naturally connected with the music he uses."

• 29 March. Czech fanzine Zappostrophe, #143. Already 4th number in this year.

• 28 March. Three issues of the French weekly Pop Music, June-July 1970, with Riviera Festival (Valbonne) adverts.

• 28 March. "What is Zappa doing", article on different albums offered by Bizarre and Straight. Dutch underground paper Aloha, August 1970.

• 27 March. On Frank Zappa and his Mothers of Invention, Philippe Constantin has a well-defined opinion : "Zappa génie?". Taken from Rock & Folk, #23, December 1968. Some original photos have been added to the article.

• 26 March. French Rock & Folk, January 1972. Article on Zappa's press conference "Zappa's woes".

• 26 March. German Good Times, February 2020. The Hot Rats Sessions review.

• 25 March. Italian Tuttifrutti, August 1983. FZ on the back cover.

• 24 March. Bimonthly Vinile #18 2019 from Italy. Article "California Dreamin' 1966".

• 24 March. The New Yorker, 7 December 2020. Article on Alex Winter's documentary Zappa.

• 23 March. Rock & Folk, July 1969. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention had a gig in famous Paris Olympia on 7. June. This concert is reviewed here by Philippe Paringaux and titled "Mothers encore ... ou les caprices du grand Zappa ...". As usual, the full text with translations available.

• 23 March. Interview "Frank Zappa : "j'exerce une direction déterminante sur les Mothers" in French Pop Music, 17 December 1970. Full text with translations available. 

• 22 March. Italian Ciao 2001, January 1970. Original interview with original pictures "La mia musica è un credo". Full text with translations available. 

• 22. March. Trouser Press, June 1979. Joe's Garage Act 1 review.

• 21 March. Disc, 1 September 1973. Short interview with Frank: "The life and times of Frank Zappa".

• 21 March. Trouser Press, June 1979. Sheik Yerbouti review.

• 20 March. Argentinian Pelo #4, 1970. Article "Frank Zappa: Pastor en U.S.A." with a nice drawing of Zappa the shepherd.
  The same picture a was printed in Swiss Pop, December 1969.

• 19 March. New Musical Express, 1 April 1978. A long story by Lester Bangs: "The Kook Who Fell To Earth - Growing Up With Captain Beefheart".

• 18 March. Trouser Press, May 1979. Sleep Dirt review.

• 18 March. OKEJ, May 1982, from Sweden.

• 16 March. Finnish Musa, June 1976, with FZ on the centerfold.

• 16 March. Trouser Press, December 1978. Studio Tan review.

• 13 March. "See the thigs of L.A. / In Your Chevrolet", Circus, July 1972. While Just Another Band From L.A. serves up a sexual puzzle, Zappa labors in his basement on a scheme of monstrous proportions.

• 13 March. Czech culture magazine UNI, February 2021, has a 4-page artcle on FZ.

• 11 March. German cultural monthly Kultur!News, September 1992. Contains an exclusive interview with Frank Zappa. Full text with translations available. 

• 10 March. Trouser Press, January 1979. TP's Guitar Picks - 100 Best Rock Guitarists.

• 10 March. Sweden's most popular in the 80s music magazine OKEJ, July 1982.

• 9 March. Record Mirror, April 1972. Interview with Captain Beefheart.

• 7 March. Several Music Connection numbers from the last five years included.

• 5 March. Italian Buscadero, May 2018. Singer/songwriter Dave Alvin on Frank Zappa - "Frank Zappa At The Roxy". Full text with translations available. 

• 5 March. Music Scene, July 1974. Article on krautrock with Zappa's picture included as "of all American musicians he was the most influential in Germany".

• 5 March. Record Mirror, 12 May 1979. "Dancin' Fool" reviewed.

• 4 March. French Best, March 1977. Paris concerts review and big Zappa/Patti Smith poster.

• 1 March. This and that from Sweden:
  - idol magazine Tiffany, #16 1973,
  - pop-magazine ZIP, December 1974,
  - girls magazine Starlet, #44 1982.

• 27 February. Very long and interesting interview with Frank Zappa - "The Alchemist of Utopia", from Italian monthly Strumenti Musicali, March 1986.  Full text with translations available.

• 26 February. "There's somebody named Zuper on the phone ..." - George Duke and Frank Zappa's Mothers. From British monthly Mojo, August 2010.

• 26 February. Argentinian audio equipment and music magazine Audio Universal, May 1979.

• 25 February. Lifestyle magazine from Poland Exklusiv, December 2003.

• 24 February. "Dialog med Zappa" - short interview with Zappa in Swedish. Full text with translations available. Youth monthly GO, March 1975. Even this short interview has a couple of interesting questions/answers.

• 23 February. Finnish youth magazine Shock Group, February 1977.

• 22 February. Record Mirror, 23 May 1981. Tinsel Town Rebellion review.

• 21 February. Swedish political music magazine Musikens Makt, issues from 1974-79.

• 20 February. Czechoslovakian samizdat publication UNI #0, June 1990.

• 19 February. Zappa on his musical motivation, interview "Kicks in the ear". New Musical Express, 26 January 1974.

• 18 February. French Pop Music, 24 December 1970. MOI Paris concert review and interview with Aynsley Dunbar.

• 18 February. French Superhebdo, 17 August 1970. Short article "Frank Zappa: an ogre, a clown or a Sicilian bandit?"

• 17 February. Absolutely Free ad in Evergreen Review, August 1967.

• 17 February. Norwegian Puls, June 1982. A lot of stuff:
  - Drammenshallen 8 May concert review
  - "Captain Beefheart: Old fart at play"
  - Ship Ariiving Too Late... album review

• 16 February. Alex Winter's Zappa film reviewed by Rob Lang:
  - in English, Guitarist, January 2021
  - in Dutch, Gitarist, January 2021

• 15 February. Pop/Rock Music, December 1968. Magazine published by American photographer Peter B. Martin. This issue contains many rare pictures of the most important pop/rock performers in this time.

• 15 February. New England Scene, November 1968. "We fixed Zappa's amp!!" ad

• 14 February. Billboard, 6 May 1967 with Verve centerfold ad of the Mothers of Invention.

• 14 February. Dutch youth magazine Nieuwe Vorm #14, 1967, containing the MOI concert review.

• 13 February. St. Louisian Riverfront Times, 20 January 2021. Article on Alex Winter's Zappa film.

• 12 February. Czech fanzine Zappostrophe is very active now. Three new issues – ##140, 141, 142 – published in 2021!

• 11 February. UK record industry trade paper Music Week, 16 September 1978. Knebworth festival report.

• 10 February. Another Argentinian, the art and culture magazine Crac!, September 2013, with an article on xenochrony.

• 9 February. Billboard Argentina, October 2020. 50 years of Chunga's Revenge.

• 7 February. French Best, January 1994. Zappa has left us, his work remains.

• 6 February. British Guitar Buyer magazine, October 2002. "A worts-and-all tour of the world's current most famous guitar - Hendrix/Zappa Strat". Plus interview with Dweezil Zappa.

• 5 February. Two issues of the Australian Guitar, vol. 123 and 124 2017, containing interview with Dweezil Zappa.

• 4 February. Two issues of the Dutch weekly OOR.
  - Apostrophe album review, 8 May 1974
  - Joe's Garage album review, 13 February 1980.

• 3 February. A Dutch book by Erik Voermans, Van Andriessen tot Zappa, is a collection of 129 interviews with/about the most important contemporary composers. Published in February 2016.

• 2 February. French music weekly Superhebdo, 18 March 1971.

• 1 February. Counterculture paper The Staff with some nice Hot Rats at Hollywood Bowl 1972 concert ads.

• 30 January. Gli approdi sinfonici di Frank Zappa by Pietro Scuderi is an analytical essay structured around the orchestral works produced and performed by Frank Zappa throughout his career. Book in Italian published in January 2021. 

• 29 January. Concert review "Zap It To 'em' Frank", Frank Zappa / LSO, Barbican Centre, London. NME 22 January 1983.

• 28 January. German fanzine Arf-Dossier #106, December 2020.

• 26 January. "Moon In June" on Captain Beefheart. Italian Musica Jazz, September 2019.

• 25 January. Norwegian progressive music magazine Tarkus, December 2001. Profile articles on Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa.

• 24 January. "Frank Zappa, antidote to our time" (Frank Zappa, antidote to our time) by Jean-Pierre Filiu was published in French intellectual journal Revue du Crieur, February 2017.

• 23 January. Two classical album reviews in Gramophone magazine:
  - Ensemble Moder plays Frank Zappa, May 2004
  - Zappa - Royal Academy Of Music Manson Ensemble, November 2012.

• 22 January. Bass Player, March 2016. Kurt Morgan of ZPZ. Zappa Zealot.

• 21 January. Melody Maker, 3 March 1979. Review by jazz critic Brian Case "Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti".

• 19 January. Polish Gitarszysta, June 2020. Paul Green from School Of Rock Music is rating some guitar stars. Only Hendrix will got 6+. Frank Zappa and Tony Iommi are both 6, Angus Young 6-, Billy Joe Armstrong 5-, Kirk Hammett 4+, Slash 4, Ace Frehley 1.

• 18 January. Disc and Music Echo, 18 December 1971. First news after the Rainbow Theatre incident.

• 17 January. Big 17-page Terry Bozzio special in Traps, Autumn 2008. Includes interviews with Ed Mann, Patrick O'Hearn and Chad Wackerman.

• 16 January. "Talking Pictures", interview with Captain Beefheart. Melody Maker, 1 November 1980.

• 15 January. Nye Takter, 8 July 1981 from Norway. Big family tree of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart presented by Norwegian Frank Zappa Society people.

• 15 January. Norwegian monthly Puls, October 1984. Article and concert review on Zappa visiting Norway.

• 14 January. Us Weekly, 17 August 1982. Moon Unit Zappa.

• 13 January. Polish guitarist magazine Gitarszysta, January 2013. Cover story on Dweezil Zappa.

• 13 January. Mladý svět (Young World) from Czechoslovakia, August 1990.

• 12 January. Norwegian progressive rock magazine Tarkus #29, June 2004. Article on FZ by Trond Gjellum, drummer and composer of the band Panzerpappa.

• 11 January. We're Only In It For The Money reviewed in Record Mirror, 18 June 1968.

• 10 January. Danish semi-annual publication Rock City, November 2011, with FZ cover story.

• 9 January. The most important Argentian rock magazine Pelo, #100, 1979.

• 9 January. Polish weekly Razem, June 1984. The full-page articles on FZ were quite rare in eastern bloc countries.

• 8 January. Short interview with Frank Zappa for a preliminary introduction of the coming album Joe's Garage. Rolling Stone, 26 July 1979.

• 8 January. Two short reviews from 1967:
  - SP "Big Leg Emma", Record Mirror, 23 September 1967
  - LP Absolutely Free, Record Mirror, 30 September 1967

• 7 January. Illustrated weekly Svet from Bratislava, Slovakia. Issued in February 1990.

• 6 January. Norwegian long-running music paper Nye Takter. In 1979 from February to May a four part Zappa article by Jan Arne Handorff was published. February, March and May issues are here.

• 5 January. German Musik Joker, February 1976, including the interview with FZ by Armano Gallo.

• 5 January. Interview with Joe Travers "Not Your Average Joe" from Talking Drums, 1995.

• 4 January. French Superhebdo, 10 February 1971 with an indeed bizarre Frank Zappa poster.

• 3 January. A reminder of the Scott Thunes interview five years later in Bass Player October 2012.

• 2 January. An old one and difficult to access, but still a good read, interview with Scott Thunes "Requiem For A Heavyweight?". Bass Player, March 1997.