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• 18 May. British Sounds on Hot Rats, 1971 November 6 issue.

• 17 May. Italian Rockstar with some album reviews:
  - 1984 December : Them Or Us
  - 1985 February : Thing Fish, Francesco Zappa, The Perfect Stranger

• 16 May. "I'm The Slime" comic strip by Moreno Chiacchierra in Rockstar, March 1984.

• 10 May. Several issues of the Italian Buscadero from the 90s added, inluding 4 album reviews by Piero Tarantola:
  - 1996 October : Lather
  - 1997 April : Have I Offended Someone?
  - 1997 October : Strictly Genteel
  - 1998 February : 200 Motels

• 9 May. Good read. And long. "Frank Zappa Of Necessity Founded The Mothers Of Invention". The Baltimore Sun Magazine, 3 May 1970.

• 8 May. British monthly Mojo, 2022 issues:
  - #338 January : "Zappa Crashes At 200 Motels"
  - #339 February : 200 Motels
  - #340 March : cover story on The Monkees
  - #341 April : book by Co de Kloet reviewed

• 7 May. The Baltimore Sun, 19 October 1971. Concert review. On October 17, 1971 Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention had two shows in Lyric Theatre, Baltimore. "Frank Zappa's madness more inventive than ever".

• 7 May. Texan Rock And Blues International, February 2022. The Mothers 1971 box set.

• 5 May. Guitar Club from Italy. Two issues containing great interviews with Frank Zappa:
  - October 1988 : with 1988 interview "The unpredictability of the instrument"
  - May 1994 : with 1983 interview "Frank Zappa tribute"

• 4 May. Great Dutch biweekly Aloha. Some indeed interesting issues from 1969 added:
  - #6 July : An Evening With Wild Man Fischer
  - #11 September : "My Guitar" single review
  - #13 October : "The Mothers apart"
  - #17 December : FZ interview by Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser "Zappa: I won't shed a tear" and Hot Rats review

• 3 May. Essay "Alternative America" by Maurizio Baiata. Muzak, November 1974.

• 2 May. Essay "Two ways" (on heart and brain in the rock music) by Giaime Pintor. Italian monthly Muzak, July 1974.

• 30 April. "You don't always eat if you only play for fun" - interview with Aynsley Dunbar. New Musical Express, 27 February 1971. 

• 29 April. Several issues of the Italian weekly Ciao 2001 from the year 1972 added. Maybe you will take a look at the October 8 issue, containing a London concert review and two album reviews.

• 28 April. Somewhere over the Rainbow: The Art of Neon Park. Very nice book first printed in 2000.

• 27 April. Finnish bimonthly Uusi Laulu, #2 1979. Sheik Yerbouti.

• 26 April. Fresh book from Czechia. Published in April 2022 as a limited edition of 100 copies - Frank Zappa - Texty / Lyrics. This thick and heavy book contains lyrics in English and Czech from 36 FZ albums.

• 26 April. "Private vices and public virtues" by Riccardo Bertoncelli. From Gong, June 1976.

• 24 April. Gong was the nicest Italian music magazine of the seventies for the quality of the articles and graphics. January 1976 issued had on Captain Beefheart "Parable of Willie The Pimp".

• 23 April. Italian Gong, September 1977. Article on contemporary electronic music.

• 23 April. In these days, April 2022, Japanese translation of the Frank Zappa biography by Barry Miles appeared.

• 22 April. New Musical Express, 5 December 1970. Interview "Metamorphosis of Frank Zappa", questions by Richard Green. Plus "Zappa at his bizarre best", show review by Roy Carr.

• 22 April. One of the first Finnish youth magazines Stump, June 1969. Frank Zappa: "Music has caused a lot of changes in the system".

• 17 April. "Zappa & Beefheart: The wise madness", in Ciao 2001, November 1972.

• 16 April. Collector's magazine from Italy, Raropiù, February 2020. Halloween 73.

• 16 April. Italian Muzak, July 1975. Article titled "There is a gentleman sitting on the toilet with a mustache".

• 16 April. Men's magazine Lui, German edition January 1985.

• 15 April. American WET Magazine, May/June 1980. Interview with Captain Beefheart.

• 15 April. Japanese Music Magazine Special Edition August 2000. Best 100 CD of the progressive music. Includes Uncle Meat.

• 15 April. Record magazine, published by the Rolling Stone in the 80s. August 1982 issue had articles on Missing Persons band and Captain Beefheart.

• 14 April. Italian monthly Il Mucchio Selvaggio (The Wild Bunch):
  - 1988 December : Broadway The Hard Way
  - 1990 February : Short Talks
  - 1992 October : Unmitigated Audacity
  - 1993 January : Playground Psychotics
  - 1994 January : Obituary
  - 1994 February : Zappa's Universe
  - 1994 September : Apocrypha
  - 2002 Winter : Hot Rats

• 13 April. German popculture magazine Spex, March/April 2016. Joachim Ody on 200 Motels with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting Los Angeles Philharmonic.

• 9 April. Celebrated People's Pictures As They Were, by Tuli Kupferberg & Sylvia Topp. This book, first printed in 1973, is actually an excellent coffe table book.

• 9 April. Interview with Captain Beefheart. Zigzag, January 1978.

• 8 April. Finnish monthly Musa:
  - 1975 August : George Duke, One Size Fits All
  - 1975 October : Beefheart, Jean-Luc Ponty, Bongo Fury
  - 1978 April : George Duke, Zappa In New York
  - 1978 June : George Duke II

• 8 April. French Guitarist & Bass, October/November 2010. Zappa solo analysis.

• 7 April. Popster, Italian monthly issued by Zappa's friend Massimo Bassoli.
  - 1979 November : Joe's Garage Act I
  - 1979 December : 100 most important discs of the 70s
  - 1980 January : Joe's Garage Acts II & III
  - 1980 April : interview with FZ

• 7 April. Italian Musica e dischi, May 1974. Article on Zappa's albums from Grand Wazoo to Apostrophe.

• 6 April. Blast from the past. New England Digital Synclavier. British Computer Music, January 2019.

• 6 April. Japanese monthly Player, May 2007. Joe's Garage 8-page special, including interview with Terry Bozzio and many recording and equipment details.

• 5 April. A set of Italian Qui Giovani issues from 1973:
  - August 30 : "Frank Zappa arrives in Italy with his legendary sound"
  - September 20 : concert review
  - September 27 : centerfold poster
  - October 4 : Over-Nite Sensation review

• 5 April. French Guitar & Bass, May/June 2003. Zappa's America in 200 Motels.

• 4 April. Finnish Suosikki, May 1969. Interview with FZ translated from Rolling Stone.

• 4 April. Scans added to the well-know article by FZ "On Junk Food for the Soul. In Defense of Rock and Roll." New Perspectives Quarterly, Winter 1988.

• 4 April. Japanese electronic instruments and recording magazine DiGiRECO, May 2009. Contains articles on Dweezil and Frank Zappa.

• 3 April. Frank Zappa: Complete Recordings Illustrated by Trevor Robinson and Andrew Sparke was published in November 2021.

• 3 April. Interview with FZ "The '60s Mother Still Breaks Social, Musical Convention". From the San Francisco Chronicle, 10 June 1984.

• 2 April. San Francisco Chronicle, November 1987. "State-of-the-art Weirdness From Zappa", article on "strange video world of Frank Zappa".

• 2 April. Some reviews of the Italian book translations.
  - Il Mucchio Selvaggio, 1986 September, Mother! by Michael Gray
  - Raro!, June 2003, The Real Frank Zappa Book and Freak Out! by Billy James.

• 1 April. French Rock & Folk, three first issues from the year 1977:
  - 1977 January : Zoot Allures
  - 1977 February : Aynsley Dunbar
  - 1977 March : FZ interview "A place in the sun", very good read, recommended

• 1 April. The first Italian youth magazine in the 60s was Ciao Amici. The October 1967 issue had a short news on the Mothers in London.

• 31 March. Very nice 2021 Japanese hardcover book w many pictures - Progressive Rock Live In Japan. Includes a lot of unreleased photos from the FZ & The Mothers 1976 Japanese tour.

• 31 March. Finnish Too Much Noise, issue 21 1988. Cruising With Ruben & The Jets CD reviewed in a rockabilly magazine.

• 31 March. Italian Buscadero set:
  - 1988 March : Freak out with the Morticians
  - 1990 February : Hot Rats
  - 1991 October : Frank Zappa Beats The Boots (long and very good read!)
  - 1993 December : The Yellow Shark (good, again)

• 30 March. Fresh Zappostrophe #146 from Czechia. Fanzine issued by the tireless Bohouš Jůza. Both the artistic design and the content are commendable. Special thanks to the article on afka.net.

• 30 March. Amercian celebrity gossip weekly In Touch, 17 January 2022. "Lady Gaga's Rock 'n' Roll Palace".

• 30 March. Baby Snakes DVD review. Italian monthly Classix!, November 2004.

• 29 March. Two issues of the Italian Big (a predcessor of the well-known Ciao 2001) from October 1967. News on the FZ and MOI visiting London. "The psychedelic sound of the Mothers of Invention won over the young English hippies, who carried Zappa in triumph through the streets of London and threw rose petals on his way." Nice.

• 28 March. Preposterous! by Scott Parker. Volume 8 of the series Frank Zappa On Stage. "Scott is producing a series of books that looks at all the recordings of Frank Zappa concert recordings that are circulating: setlists, special things that happened during the show, etceteras."

• 28 March. French Jazz Magazine, January 1994. Two-page FZ obituary.

• 27 March. Arf-Dossier #111, March 2022. The Mothers 1971 CD box, the rare pictures gallery, Andrew Greenaway (idiotbastard) from London, Peter van Laarhoven (United Mutations) from Belgium, vinyl bootleg releases.

• 27 March. More Beefheart. Italian Music & Arts, July 1992. "Captain Beefheart's Loony Magic Club Band".

• 26 March. Culture magazine UNI from Czechia, January 2022. 14 (!) page cover story on Captain Beefheart, including several translated lyrics.

• 25 March. Italian monthly Music. Album reviews:
  - 1991 July : The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
  - 1991 November : Make A Jazz Noise Here

• 20 March. Finally some Uncut not so remnants:
  - 2018 October : Power To The People (We're Only In It For The Money)
  - 2020 February : Frank Zappa: The Hot Rats Sessions
  - 2020 September : An Audience With Archie Shepp
  - 2020 October : The GTO's: Permanent Damage
  - 2021 February : Captain Beefheart: Well, I Was Born In The Desert
  - 2021 March : Zappa (DVD review)
  - 2022 January : Frank Zappa: 200 Motels
  - 2022 May : Frank Zappa: The Mothers 1971

• 20 March. More British Uncut remnants:
  - 2013 March : Ray Collins 1936-2012
  - 2013 July : Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme (review)
  - 2015 March : The Story Of Discreet Records
  - 2015 July : Ringo Starr on 200 Motels
  - 2016 January : Frank Zappa: Roxy The Movie (review)
  - 2016 March : Pierre Boulez 1925-2016
  - 2016 June : Who The Fuck Is Frank Zappa?
  - 2016 October : Frank Zappa for President/The Crux Of The Biscuit (review)
  to be continued

• 19 March. Inside intimate quantity of dried Uncut magazine remnants we found:
  - 2003 January : Zappa Picks by Larry Lalonde and
  Zappa Picks by John Fishman
  - 2003 August : A Grandmothers Night at the Gewandhaus ad.
  - 2004 January : "Jazz is not dead" albums ad
  - 2004 March : The Torture Never Stops DVD ad
  - 2007 June : Apostrophe and Over-Nite Sensation DVD ad
  - 2009 January : Jimmy Carl Black 1938-2008
  - 2010 January : 20 Best Music DVDs
  - 2011 January : Paul Weller on "Peaches En Regalia"
  - 2011 September : Wild Man Fisher 1944-2011
  to be continued

• 19 March. Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger review in British classical music magazine Gramophone, December 1984.

• 15 March. Twisted Sister's Dee Snider on US Senate hearings with Zappa in 1985. Classic Rock, August 2009.

• 14 March. FZ talking on December 31 1975 in Inglewood Forum, Los Angeles. The last concert of the US tour is about to begin. An European tour will follow shortly. Roy Estrada is back, it is nice to remember the year 1965. Ciao 2001, February 1976.

• 13 March. Interview with Captain Beefheart: "This is Captain Beefheart!". From Italian Ciao 2001, February 1978.

• 12 March. Gail Zappa obituary. Uncut, December 2015.

• 11 March. Three FZ obituaries, two from Sweden, one from Italy. All 7 December 1993.
  - Arbetet "The freak fell silent"
  - Svenska Dagbladet "Zappa left for his final tour"
  - La Stampa "Addio Frank Zappa"

• 10 March. Two album reviews in Ciao 2001 August 1982:
  - Tinsel Town Rebellion
  - The Man From Utopia

• 9 March. Interview "The irrepressible recklessness of Frank Zappa" and concert review "The concert". Italian Ciao 2001, August 1982.

• 8 March. German film-music-culture magazine S!A!U!, issue #3 1978. Attendee story "Zappa's Privat Night" on Zappa's rehearsals at Circus Krone in Munich on September 8, 1978.

• 7 March. "But who are these jazzmen who blow for Zappa?". From French Jazz Magazine, June 1982.

• 6 March. In-house Warner Bros publication Circular, April 1975. The story " Groupies Ripped My Tweed" contains some funny facts about the Albert Hall court case in London.

• 5 March. Italian folded poster magazine Posterstory. April/May issue from 1981 is a giant Zappa poster with article, pictures and discography on the other side.

• 4 March. Italian Music, December 1992 - Zappa: The String Quartet.

• 3 March. "The Central Scrutinizer". With the brand new LP, "Joe's Garage", the mustachioed guitarist returns to mockery and social satire. The best weapons of him. We present the disc. An album-concept, and some controversy and significant Zappian statements. Ciao 2001, October 1979. 

• 3 March. Thing Fish album review. British The Beat, April 1985.

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• 24 February. Ciao Big, January 1968. Tabletop game with Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez and several Italian artists.

• 23 February. Dutch family weekly Nieuwe Revu. One old and one new issue:
  - 1983 July : interview with FZ
  - 2021 June : 8-page article with many pictures

• 22 February. A nice trio of articles from US student paper The Spectrum that perfectly show the change in students' attitudes towards the MOI in one year:
  - 1969 April : "Concert preview : Mothers Of Invention"
  - 1969 May : "Concert review : Mothers Of Invention"
  - 1970 October : "Concert review : Up against the wall, Mothers"

• 21 February. A set of French weekly Pop Music numbers. Most notable from many additions today:
  - 1971 December : "200 Motels or the thousand-headed monster"
  - 1972 September : a full-page FZ poster

• 19 February. Interview with Dweezil Zappa. Hustler US, 2007 Holiday issue.

• 19 February. British Planet Rock, October 2019. Steve Vai on "Inca Roads".

• 18 February. A set of Italian collectors' magazine Raro! numbers:
  - 1996 May : Ditties And Beer promo
  - 1996 September : Return Of The Son Of Kill Ugly Radio promo
  - 1996 October : Läther
  - 1997 June : Have I Offended Someone, Strictly Genteel promo
  - 1997 December : 200 Motels
  - 1998 April : Cucamonga

• 16 February. Italian weekly Ciao 2001, 31 August 1980. An article on eight geniuses of rock music. Interesting questions and answers. Why Lennon and not McCartney, why Richards and not Jagger. FZ is anyway in.

• 16 February. DownBeat, 15 December 1977. Readers' Poll Results.

• 16 February. One Popster more - 1979 May with Sheik Yerbouti.

• 15 February. The Album Network was a weekly music industry magazine geared toward radio stations. May 1995 issue reviewed Kill Ugly Radio sampler.

• 15 February. A set of Italian Popster numbers:
  - 1979 March : Sleep Dirt
  - 1979 April : Readers' Poll Results
  - 1979 June : interview

• 14 February. British VOX:
  - 1994 August : The Negative Dialectics Of Poodle Play
  - 1994 November : Frank Zappa would always go one better than Jimi Hendrix.

• 14 February. Special edition "Impossible revolution" - Rock & Folk, May 2008. Contains article on Frank Zappa and Jello Biafra "Les Politiciens du Rock"

• 13 February. American magazine about guitar building and guitar players Guitar Connoisseur, Fall 2014. Interview with Dweezil Zappa, with pictures 24 pages in total.

• 11 February. Two album reviews from Italian Buscadero:
  - 1992 September : YCDTOSA v5
  - 1992 October : YCDTOSA v6

• 10 February. One of the best Zappa magazine specials at all is MM from Denmark, February 1976 issue. Now we can present the full texts here:
  - The introductory years of FZ and MOI, in US and Denmark. Huge.
  - Very nice and interesting interview. Almost emphatic.
  - Two concert reviews. Harsh.
  - FZ lyrics analysis.
  - Three Zappa book reviews. Rare.

• 10 February. Danish MM, Juni 1978. Zappa in New York.

• 9 February. Dutch Muziek Epres, March 1976. FZ interview over phone.

• 9 February. Fresh Frank Zappa - The Nordic Stories, 4th edition. Appeared in January 2022.

• 9 February. Some album reviews in French monthly Best:
  - 1972 August : John & Yoko Some Time in New York City
  - 1979 October : Joe's Garage Act I
  - 1980 January : Joe's Garage Acts II & III

• 8 February. Finnish Suosikki, October 1967. Nice front cover but no Zappa content inside.

• 8 February. Two issues of the Italian weekly Ciao Big:
  - 1968 September : Freak Out!
  - 1968 December : "The biting inventions of Zappa's Mothers"

• 7 February. Frank Zappa and his Mothers were in Italy for two concerts, in Rome and Bologna. The "Zappa "live"" contains a concert review and an interview, made in Bologna. Qui Giovani, 20 September 1973.

• 6 February. British musicians' magazine Making Music:
  - 1986 December : "Influences - One Size Fits All"
  - 1987 January : "Album Interview - Jazz From Hell"

• 5 February. American Jazz Trumpet Journal, February 1994. Obituary and article "Zappa's Trumpets".

• 4 February. Two interviews with Zappa.
  - "Zappa-Boom", Christmas 1976, New York, Palladium Theatre. Taken from Ciao 2001, February 1977,
  - "That genial gentleman named Frank Zappa", January 1978, London, Hammersmith Odeon. Taken from Ciao 2001, February 1978.

• 3 December. Relix photo album 1980.

• 3 December. Another Mexican magazine Sonido (Sound). Zappa interview in 3 parts printed in 1980.

• 2 December. Mexican music paper In. The very first issue from January 1969.

• 2 February. Hey was a very popular and long-running Turkish music magazine. The first example in our database is from December 1971. FZ is pictured in Hamburg reading Hey.

• 1 February. Crawdaddy, September 1976. On Zoot Allures, A Token of His Extreme and Grand Funk Railroad - "Zappa's Post-Funk LP "Zoot" Suits Him Just Fine".

• 31 January. Reviews of some classical and well-known English Zappa books:
  Q 1993 August : Mother! The Frank Zappa Story
  Q 1993 August : Frank Zappa In His Own Words
  Q 1994 April : The Negative Dialectics Of Poodle Play
  Mojo 1996 December : Electric Don Quixote
  Q 1997 February : Electric Don Quixote
  Mojo 1997 June : No Commercial Potential
  Uncut 2003 June : Dangerous Kitchen. The Subversive World Of Zappa

• 30 January. New PDF-book by Andrew Greenaway, published in January 2022. Zappa FUQs : all that's wrong to know about the Father of Invention - and more! Very interesting read, recommended!

• 29 January. Exclusive interview with Frank Zappa by Ray Bonici. German Musik Express, May 1979. Many good words about Warren Cuccurullo.

• 27 January. A collection of German Musik Express numbers from 1970-72.
  1970 March : MIDEM convention
  1971 June : Ringo Starr as Larry the Dwarf poster
  1971 July : Frank Zappa poster
  1972 February : 200 Motels
  1972 April : Captain Beefheart
  1972 May : Can drummer Jaki Liebzeit on Zappa and "Willie The Pimp"

• 26 January. Rolling Stone France, December 2014. "Capitaine insensible" on Captain Beefheart.

• 26 January. Record Collector, October 2011. "Born To Be Wild Man" on Wild Man Fischer.

• 25 January. Dutch Soundz, number 3 2021. Interview with Ahmet Zappa on album Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show.

• 24 January. Mucchio Extra, Summer 2001. An article about cartoon-based record covers, like The Man From Utopia.

• 23 January. 1968 Schaefer Music Festival handbill and pass.

• 22 January. The National Magazine for Italian-Americans - I-AM, March 1977. Interview "Frank Zappa Zaps Back".

• 22 January. Italian Musica Jazz, January 2020. "Frank Zappa Hot Rats".

• 21 January. French monthly Best, 3 issues from 1978:
  March : Pavillon de Paris concert
  May : Zappa In New York
  November : Studio Tan

• 20 January. One of the earliest articles on Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention in Italian press - "Zappa on the feet". Good read and nice pictures. Taken from weekly Ciao Big, December 1967.

• 20 January. The only Russian magazine for guitarists - Guitarz Magazine, #23 2017.

• 19 January. The most enduring of all Zappa fanzines - Zappostrophe from Czechia. Issue #145, January 2022.

• 18 January. "Zappa: Urgent Zaniness ...", concert review in DownBeat, 12 January 1978.

• 17 January. Italian monthly Music. "Frank Zappa CD story" was published in 3 parts, in April, May and June.

• 16 January. Sounds by Rolling Stone was a German quarterly publication in 2008-2009. Issue 2 contains parts of the well-known 1968 Rolling Stone interview.

• 14 January. British Record Collector, Christmas 2017. Record shop racks were once heaving with US underground progressive rock. Kris Needs tells the heavyweight tale of its influences and birth.

• 13 January. Dutch weekly Kink, March 1967. Freak Out review.

• 12 January. November 1984, Il Mucchio Selvaggio.  Nine Zappa album reviews by Paolo Bertrando, 15 discs in total.

• 11 January. Good read from British Mojo:
  - 2006 July : This month in 1982 ... Zappa has a hit!
  - 2007 May : Gail Zappa on inducting FZ into the Rock'n Roll Hall Of Fame

• 10 January. "Vai & Zappa" - exclusive interview with Steve Vai in Russian magazine Guitarz #25 2020.

• 10 January. Swedish Okej, very first number 1 1980.

• 9 January. Finnish Intro, September 1973. Issue contains a giant Zappa poster.

• 9 January. The interview "My epitaph: anything, anytime, any place, for no reason at all" was printed in Belgian Humo in December 1993 shortly after Zappa's death. It was translated into English and placed on killuglyradio.com afterwards.

• 9 January. French monthly Extra.
  - 1972 September : Waka/Jawaka, Ruben & The Jets
  - 1972 November : Tim Buckley-Doors-Zappa in concert
  - 1973 February : The Grand Wazoo

• 8 January. Trouser Press, January 1981. Interview with Captain Beefheart.

• 8 January. Norwegian Nya Takter, June 1982. Concert (Drammenshallen) and album (Ship Arriving Too Late) reviews.

• 7 January. Classic Rock Italia, July 2021. Interview with Ahmet Zappa "Il Nostradamus del Rock".

• 7 January. Some short album reviews from British Disc magazine:
  - 1970 March : Hot Rats
  - 1972 September : Waka/Jawaka
  - 1973 March : Mothermania

• 6 January. German culture magazine Oval, June/July 1988, with a Dortmund concert review.

• 6 January. Teen, December 1966. "My Fair & Frantic Hollywood" column on Freak Outs.

• 5 January. Italian Rockstar, album reviews by Massimo Bassoli:
  - 1981 November : You Are What You Is
  - 1982 February : Shut Up'n Play Yer Guitar

• 4 January. Mojo Collections, short-living British magazine for collectors.
  - 2002 Spring : "Mothers Superior" on Frank Zappa
  - 2001 Winter : "Master Strokes" on Captain Beefheart

• 3 January. Daily newspaper from Sweden, Svenska Dagbladet.
  - 1980 January 15 : FZ receiving award for 350,000 sold copies of "Bobby Brown" plus article on Zappa visiting Sweden with short interview snippets
  - 1971 November 21 : articles on 200 Motels and the MOI concert in Stockholm.

• 2 January. Interesting concert review by Philippe Paringaux - "Symphony in rock minor". Frank Zappa & Hot Rats in "Rock At The Oval" festival on 16 September. Rock & Folk, October 1972. This issue contains also Waka/Jawaka review and article on Mark & Howard.

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