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• 8 December. Frank Zappa spend some days in March 1989 on the island of Ibiza and gave an exclusive interview to the local paper La Prensa de Ibiza. He chatted about the projects that he has raised to the mayor of Madrid for the creation of an "Orchestra of the World" and a computer-assisted alchemy study center.

• 7 December. Spanish monthly Rock Espezial, published from 1981 to 1984. Three issues out of 38 contained FZ content:
  - 1982 October : Adrian Belew
  - 1984 September : an old punk FZ is visiting Spain
  - 1984 October : interview with FZ

• 6 December. Mojo, January 1997. A rare review of the album Frank Zappa Plays The Music Of Frank Zappa.

• 5 December. Argentinian magazine Mordisco, issue #3, 1974. Four-page Frank Zappa poster.

• 5 December. Turkish weekly Hey:
  - 1971 December : Zappa lost his equipment, and his leg is broken
  - 1972 October : Mothers of Invention finished, Hot Rats started

• 4 December. Greek Hxos & Hi-Fi:
  - 1982 June : Odeon Hammersmith concert review
  - 1982 December : Ship Arriving Too Late ...
  - 1984 June : Interview. FZ: I belong neither to rock nor to modern music. I'm not a rock star, and I play no major role in the foundation of serious music. I have no teaching intention. I don't work to educate the listener. I write and play the music I like.

• 3 December. Rolling Stone, May 16, 1991. "McCartney and Zappa "Bootlegs" Due".

• 3 December. German Musikexpress, December 1992. Can musicians paint too?

• 2 December. Phonograph Record Magazine, December 1973. Over-Nite Sensation full-page ad.

• 2 December. Hungarian tabloid Kurír. The September 1991 issue is is on Hungarian translation of The Real Frank Zappa Book.

• 1 December. The violin according to Jean Luc Ponty. French Rock & Folk, June 1971.

• 30 November. German Stereoplay, January 1985. Interview made during the 1984 world tour "I get into trouble with all kinds of people".

• 29 November. Canadian Pop-See-Cul, June 1967. Some nice quotes and ads.

• 28 November. American WIN, February 1973. "No Commercial Potential".

• 28 November. Slovakian weekly in Hungarian, A Hét, January 1994. Zappa obituary.

• 27 November. British Sound On Sound, August 1997. Paul D. Lehrman took six players, four samplers and a computer, and created a live‑performance piece based on the music and words of Frank Zappa.

• 27 November. Greek jazz magazine Jazz & Tzaz, April 1999, contained very interesting list of 100 most important records that characterize the music of the 20th century in all styles, from Caruso to Björk. The list includes Hot Rats and Civilization Phase III.

• 26 November. Alternative magazine from Illinois, SunRise:
  - 1974 #3 : interview with FZ
  - 1975 #3 : One Size Fits All
  - 1975 #4 : Bongo Fury

• 26 November. Greek publication Psychagogos (The Entertainer). Two issues from 1990, one about Captain Beefheart, and the other about Frank Zappa.

• 22 November. German classical music Fono Forum, February 2004. Review of the Ensemble Modern Plays Frank Zappa album.

• 21 November. Record Collector, July 2013. The Confessions Of Kaylan: "... Frank always knew something nobody else knew. He was very much Bowie-esque with that. He could see the future ..."

• 21 November. Lugano concert review, Italian Muzak, April 1976.

• 20 November. Rolling Stone, August 27, 1987. The 100 Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years - #77 We're Only In It For The Money

• 19 November. Italian Best, May 1977. Special issue of avant-garde artists from USA, UK, Germany, France and Italy. Captain Beefheart and Wild Man Fischer are featured.

• 18 November. British The Spectator, 1971 February. Definitely a good read - "Necessity and Invention" by the director of the 200 Motels Tony Palmer.

• 17 November. Swiss French-language weekly L'Hebdo. Several issues from 1982 to 2001.

• 16 November. British Record Hunter, August 1991. You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 4 / Make A Jazz Noise Here.

• 16 November. Italian weekly Sound Flash, March 1973. Captain Beefheart.

• 16 November. Norwegian Backstage, December 2004. How marginal Zappa became famous overnight in Norway with his album Sheik Yerbouti.

• 15 November. Italian Ciao 2001, issues from 1978:
  - March 26 : George Duke
  - May 14 : Frank Zappa & the legal war
  - July 2 : Foto ~ Zappa
  - July 9 : Zappa In New York
  - December 3 : Studio Tan

• 14 November. Two very different Danish magazines.
  - Euroman, a men's lifestyle magazine with a nice story on The Man From Utopia
  - DMT, a serious classical music magazine with reviews of Boulez Conducts Zappa and The Yellow Shark

• 13 November. Two magazines with pictures from the same event, "Rock for Rep" benefit hosted by Frank Zappa:
  - American lifestyle magazine Details, February 1987
  - German Musikexpress, March 1987

• 12 November. The first book in English on Zappa was No Commercial Potential by David Walley. An excellent review by Andrew Gordon in Rolling Stone, September 1972.

• 11 November. Turkish Express.
  - 1994 December : FZ obituary
  - 2004 July : FZ interview translated from Mojo

• 11 November. Hungarian cultural magazine Beszélő, December 1993. FZ obituary.

• 10 November. Two Record Mirror issues with Zappa bits:
  - 1969 March 1 : Underground groups - professional is the key word
  - 1978 January 7 : Frank zaps in

• 10 November. French Les Inrocks2. 50 ans de rock, vol. 4 les années 60.

• 9 November. Norwegian alternative publication Gateavisa.
  - 1970 #1 : "Plastic People" lyrics
  - 1973 #2 : well-known picture of FZ holding this issue
  - 1974 #1 : an interview with FZ
  - 1993 #1 : excerpt from The Real Frank Zappa Book

• 8 November. Italian Raro, May 1994. "40 years of rock" with some good pictures.

• 7 November. German Grand Guitars:
  - 2020 January/February : 50 years of Hot Rats
  - 2021 July/August : What Frank Zappa left to his compatriots

• 6 November. Ryboun - the Thing-Fish libretto in Czech. "... our small group of translators spontaneously decided in 1986 to translate the text of the libretto of this triple album into the mother tongue. ... After 36 long years, we are now providing our translation in the form of a set of scans of the original transcription made on the then only possible typewriter to the members of the Czech Frank Zappa fan club ..."

• 6 November. Hungarian weekly Reform. Four magazine issues have been added, among which the one from September 1993 contains an article about Czaba Varga's animation film studio. One of their films is Bestiak, based on the music of Frank Zappa.

• 5 November. Prog Italia #35, April 2021. "Sinfonie Zappiane" on 8 pages.

• 4 November. Rolling Stone, October 1996. Läther.

• 3 November. Turkish short-living rock & metal magazine Rock!, January 1994.

• 2 November. Zappa / Cruising with Ruben & the Jets reference in British Record Mirror, May 31, 1969.

• 1 November. Mania is the free magazine of the Dutch record store chain Plato. A whole range of issues from the last ten years give a good overview of more or less all FZ rereleases.

• 1 November. Finnish short-living weekly Pointti #13, 1972. FZ on the back cover.

• 31 October. Can you imagine how popular was Frank Zappa in Scandinavia? Norwegian monthly Puls, February 1982. Readers' poll - artists of the year 1981. Frank Zappa is the artist of the year #2 (after Bruce Springsteen), composer #1, musician #2, and singer #2. You Are What You Is is LP #1 of the year.

• 30 October. Hungarian classical music monthly Muzsika.
  - 1995 February : Péter Eötvös, "Psalm 151, in memorian Frank Zappa"
  - 2008 May : Kent Nagano in Budapest

• 30 October. 100 Frank Zappa Quotations. This paperback is available from the end of September 2022. You are warned - most probably you don't need to buy it.

• 29 October. British trade paper Music Week. Some issues from 1978 and 1979. Especially recommended reading are issues containing "Fact Sheets" - music industry promotional texts and comments on the albums.
  - 1978 October 14 : Fact Sheets. Studio Tan
  - 1979 February 3 : WB fires at CBS and Zappa
  - 1979 February 10 : CBS fires back
  - 1979 March 10 : Sheik Yerbouti, short review
  - 1979 March 17 : Fact Sheets. Sheik Yerbouti. Sleep Dirt
  - 1979 March 24 : Sleep Dirt, short review

• 28 October. Chilean biweekly Onda, October 1971. Very attractive cover.

• 28 October. Chilean weekly Ritmo, October 1972. This issue contains famous photos of rock stars with parents, taken from the magazine Life.

• 27 October. German Rocky, March 1978. Interview with FZ "I'm just fantastic".

• 27 October. Turkish Hi-Fi and music magazine Stereo Mecmuasi published FZ compact biography in four issues during the year 2009.

• 26 October. Ciao 2001, issues from 1977.
  - January 9 : "I do everything myself"
  - January 23 : short discography I
  - January 30 : short discography II
  - April 3 : interview with FZ
  - September 11 : the news of Frank Zappa's death is completely unfounded
  - November 27 : Zappa In New York would even be a quadruple album

• 26 October. Turkish monthly Boom Müzik, March 1990. Zappa centerfold poster.

• 25 October. Australian Guitar, vol. 146, 2022. "Ten Essential Gibson SG Albums" includes Frank Zappa & The Monsters - Roxy & Elsewhere. A very good Freudian slip.

• 25 October. Guitar Player:
  - 2021 Holiday : The 50 Greatest Solos All Time (incl Watermelon...)
  - 2022 April : 25 Guitar Innovators

• 24 October. British non-mainstream music monthly The Wire, some issues from the last years added:
  - 2019 September : "Crude Awakening"
  - 2020 December : Zappa film by Alex Winter
  - 2022 February : 200 Motels. 50th Anniversary Edition
  - 2022 March : Frank & Co book by Co de Kloet
  - 2022 May : The Mothers 1971
  - 2022 September : Zappa/Erie

• 23 october. "Zappa surprised", Isstadion, Stockholm concert review. Svenska Dagbladet, May 1988.

• 23 October. Turkish music and cinema weekly Gong, November 1981. "The return of the Frank Zappa".

• 22 October. Italian weekly Ciao 2001, issues from 1976:
  - January 25 : Bongo Fury
  - February 29 : 1000 Lire Zappa concert coupon
  - April 25 : interviews with Roy Estrada and FZ
  - July 18 : Flo & Eddie
  - November 28 : interview with FZ
  - December 26 : Grand Funk

• 21 October. Hungarian weekly Képes Újság (Illustrated News). Several issues added from 1979 to 1983 which show, that Zappa was viewed very positively in Socialist Hungary at the time.

• 20 October. New Musical Express, November 1980. "Tales of transmutation from the Mojave Magic Man".

• 19 October. This year is very fruitful in terms of Zappa books. Another one, Frank Zappa. Il padrino del rock, came in September 2022. This Italian-language book by American-bourne photographer Sergio Albonico and Italian journalist Stefano Milioni is a strong candidate for English translation. We recommend reading Andrew Greenaway's interview with one of the book's authors, Sergio Albonico.

• 18 October. The Brazilian edition of the Guitar Player. December 1998 issue contains a lesson about Frank Zappa's technique.

• 18 October. Italian Ciao 2001, 3 issues from 1975:
  - April 20 : Special/Rock Guitarists
  - July 13 : Court news
  - August 17 : 10 disc box from Zappa is coming

• 17 October. The Torture Never Stops by Helge Holm contains insightful reviews of all of Zappa's studio albums (plus a lot more stuff). In German. Published in September 2022.

• 16 October. It's always interesting to read how Zappa's classical music is received by classical publications. Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger is reviewed in German Fono Forum, March 1985.

• 15 October. Czech cultural monthly UNI, September 2022. Articles on American undergroung, The Fugs and Frank Zappa.

• 14 October. "Why Zappa has gone overground" - Wembley Arena concerts review. Melody Maker, June 1980.

• 13 October. Japanese mook (magazine-book) The History Of Rock Upheaval, 2007.

• 12 October. "This great old love of ours, Bongo Fury", Ciao 2001, December 1975.

• 12 October. Melody Maker, January 1981. What are the Mothers worth with and without Zappa, read in the Grandmothers' album review "Mothers In Lore".

• 12 October. Turkish weekly publication Hürriyet Pazar, March 1979.

• 11 October. 2nd edition of the well-received book Frank & Co: Conversations with Frank Zappa 1977-1993 by Co De Cloet appeared already in February 2022.

• 11 October. Record Mirror, August 1968. Some good words on Lumpy Gravy.

• 11 October. Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, August 1973, on Zappa's band in the TV-program Opopoppa.

• 10 October. Welcome In Zappa Town: Marko Nakari is a book containing cartoons and drawings by Finnish artist Marko Nakari which was compiled by Robert Riedt for an exhibition at the Zappanale Festival #31, July 2022.

• 9 October. Ciao 2001, December 1974. Roxy & Elsewhere.

• 8 October. Freak Out! My Life With Frank Zappa by Pauline Butcher. A new, revised and updated edition has just been published. This book is worth reading, for sure.

• 8 October. Two album reviews from Rolling Stone:
  - 2002 January 17 : Joe's Garage, Act I
  - 2004 November 25 : Joe's Corsage.

• 8 October. Hungarian weekly newspaper Szabad Föld, December 1971. 200 Motels film.

• 7 October. Zappostrophe #148, fanzine from Czechia. The longest running FZ fanzine is still alive and living well.

• 6 October. Creem spinoff, teen female audience targeted photo mag Creem Rock-Shots, July 1987. Dweezil Zappa cover story.

• 5 October. Hullabaloo, May/June 1968. "Would you agree that, musically, the MOTHERS are probably the best rock band in the world?"

• 4 October. La Repubblica, March 2022. Alev Winter's film Zappa is reviewed.

• 4 October. French Juke Box Magazine, September 1995, on Zappa albums CD reissues.

• 2 October. "Frank Zappa: Hammersmith Odeon". Printed in British trade weekly Music Week, March 1979.

• 2 October. Dutch bimonthly Soundz, number 4, 2016. Hot Rats reviewed.

• 1 October. British Beat Instrumental, April 1970. Short reviews of Hot Rats and Permanent Damage.

• 30 September. Ciao 2001 in 1974 - Captain Beefheart twice, Jean Luc Ponty once.
  - May 5 : Captain Beefheart. The door of madness
  - July 28 : Captain Beefheart. The mountain is (no longer) sacred
  - November 3 : Jean Luc Ponty. A luxury wingman

• 29 September. Rolling Stone, December 11, 2003. "The 500 Greatest albums Of All Time" original list contains:
  #58 Trout Mask Replica
  #243 Freak Out!
  #296 We're Only In It For The Money
  This list was slightly updated in 2012 and more thoroughly in 2020, with all three albums excluded from the list.

• 29 September. Austin Sun, September 1977. Counterculture weekly from Austin, Texas. Disapproving Zappa concert review with reader response.

• 28 September.
  -- German monthly magazine for classical music, jazz and hi-fi Fono Forum, December 1978. Article on current pop music and electronic avantgarde.
  -- Hungarian quarterly Pop, Summer 1979. Translation of the Fono Forum article.

• 27 September. Some Classic Rock issues from 2010.
  - March : Gene Simmons on "Black Tongue" song
  - June : The Freak-Out! List / 200 Motels
  - August : Dweezil Zappa: Return Of The Son Of ...
  - December : Zappa The Hard Way book review

• 26 September. Italian weekly Ciao 2001. September 1974, Zappa is back in Italy.
  - September 1 : Absolutely Free
  - September 22 : Mr. Zappa, who are you? Interview and concert review.

• 26 September. Czech Rock History series:
  - 1986 : FZ - Humor belongs to music, jazz to hell
  - 1972 : FZ - Indomitable invalid with jazz rock

• 25 September. Sound On Sound, August 2020. Frank Zappa was as fastidious about cataloguing his recordings as he was about making them. The task of mixing this enormous archive falls to one man... "Craig Parker Adams: Mixing Frank Zappa"

• 20 September. German Gitarre & Bass.
  - 1987 September : Duo Infernal - Steve Vai & Billy Sheehan
  - 1991 July : Dweezil Zappa
  - 1993 May : Dweezil Zappa again
  - 1993 August : Steve Vai
  - 1996 January : Mike Keneally
  - 2001 April : Dweezil Zappa
  - 2001 December : Mike Keneally
  - 2005 January : Frank Zappa - The Beat Goes On
  - 2005 November : Zappa Plays Zappa - Tour De Frank
  - 2009 December : Zappa Plays Zappa
  - 2013 December : Great Googly Moogly - Zappa Phoenix SG Replica

• 19 September. Australian Music Trader, December 1995. Nice cover. Zappa retrospective and competition inside.

• 18 September. Italian weekly Ciao 2001, three issues from April 1974:
  - April 7 : a review of the book Pop Superstars
  - April 21 : Manuel Insolera's thoughts on Zappa and Apostrophe
  - April 28 : Enzo Caffarelli's review on Apostrophe

• 18 September. Hungarian cultural magazine Premier. Two issues, from 2005 and 2008.

• 17 September. Rolling Stone, August 6, 1970. A very complimentary review by Bob Palmer: "King Kong. Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa". Why not listen to this album after a long time?

• 17 September. Three Zappa single reviews in Record Mirror:
  - 1979 May 12 : "Dancin' Fool" (he's 2nd highest charting single after "Valley Girl")
  - 1980 January 12 : "Joe's Garage"
  - 1980 June 21 : "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted"

• 14 September. Turkish weekly Rock Kazani #100, December 1994. FZ on the back cover.

• 14 September. German Grand Guitars, July/August 2017. Dweezil Zappa.

• 13 September. British VOX, October 1991. FZ as VOX Closing Shot. And Beat The Boots review in the monthly supplement Record Hunter.

• 12 September. The 2nd biggest Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica, October 11, 2021. Zappa and 200 Motels.

• 11 September. Some issues of the French Rock & Folk:
  - 2010 June : A prog rock anthology, incl Hot Rats
  - 2010 September : Dweezil Zappa Return Of The Son Of ...
  - 2010 November : ZPZ ad
  - 2011 January : The Torture Never Stops DVD review
  - 2011 July : a book on Captain Beefheart
  - 2011 August : "California Dreamin," incl Freak Out!

• 10 September. Here he comes again! Arf Dossier #113.

• 28 August. Mai Nap was the first post-communist era tabloid in Hungary. Two issues from July 1991 covering Zappa's visit to Hungary.

• 27 August. "O.K. Frank, Let It Roll …" Interview with FZ made in The Dorchester Hotel, London. NME, March 5, 1977.

• 26 August. Newspaper from a small town in the Netherlands, Elburger Courant. Some clippings from the late 60s demonstrate newspaper coverage of the Mothers band. And article on Zappa and the Hot Rats concert in the Hague, September 17, 1972.

• 26 August. Disc, August 26, 1972. "Zappa back to Britain for just one day".

• 25 August. The "ZAPPA" movie brochure from Japan, 2022. Very informative and nice.

• 25 August. German youth magazine Pop/Rocky, May 1991. "Zappa, the revolutionary"

• 24 August. French weekly Pop Music, May 11, 1972. Paris concert review and interview with Captain Beefheart - "Captain Beefheart and telephatic relationship".

• 23 August. September 2017, British GQ. "Build a Woah! Record Library: #8 Hot Rats"

• 22 August. Italian monthly Rockstar, October 1985. Rock photographer Guido Harari.

• 22 August. Portuguese Se7e:
  - 1978 August 10 : Zappa In New York
  - 1978 December 14 : Studio Tan
  - 1979 June 13 : Sleep Dirt

• 21 August. Topp is a Norwegian magazine for girls. The June 1985 issue contains a commendable review of Thing Fish - "Zappa is still kicking"!  Do not underestimate teenage magazines.

• 21 August. The first Captain Beefheart interview in Britain - "Those Beefheart Blues". Said the Captain, "I like Zappa, Ornette Coleman, Anders & Poncia and Penny Nicholls and dimes and quarters and Billy." Printed in Melody Maker, February 3, 1968.

• 20 August. German MusikExpress, some album reviews from the 70s:
  - 1973 March : Grand Wazoo
  - 1976 January : Bongo Fury
  - 1977 February : Zoot Allures
  - 1978 August : Zappa In New York
  - 1979 January : Studio Tan
  - 1979 March : Sleep Dirt
  - 1979 April : Sheik Yerbouti

• 19 August. Pophandboek by Henk Bergman and Errit Petersma, printed in 1970.

• 18 August. French Rock & Folk, May 1970. Trout Mask Replica reviewed.

• 17 August. Rolling Stone Brasil had two runs - 1972 and 2006-2018. We added
  - 1972 February : an overview article on FZ
  - 2013 December : 10 best albums by FZ

• 17 August. Brazilian short-living music and equipment magazine MIX, #11 1987. Interview with Frank Zappa, "Goodbye guitars".

• 16 August. British trade paper Music Week:
  - 1980 April 19 : news from Sweden and Norway - Bobby Brown etc.
  - 1984 September 29 : Zappa signs to EMI
  - 1985 July 13 : Satire is the Mother of Invention
  - 1986 March 1 : Zappa albums for EMI reissue

• 15 August. Captain Beefheart discography. Italian Gong, April 1975.

• 15 August. Japanese men's fashion magazine Popeye, #2 1976. How did Frank Zappa produce Grand Funk Railroad?

• 14 August. Dutch Soundz #5, 2020. Reviews of the Co de Kloet's book and Halloween 81 album.

• 14 August. Suomen Kuvalehti (Finland's picture magazine) May 2009. Dweezil Zappa and Zappa Plays Zappa are visiting Helsinki.

• 13 August. Stars Car No. 24. Frank Zappa. Creem, February 1977.

• 13 August. German Grand Guitars, #1 2016. Frank Zappa's 75 anniversary - "Consensus is nonsense".

• 12 August. Italian Qui Giovani, January 1974. Frank Zappa's past, present and future by Barbara Woods.

• 11 August. Modern Drummer, July 1981. Drum Soloist: Terry Bozzio

• 11 August. "Fab Zap!" Paris concerts review and a short interview with Frank Zappa. French monthly Best, March 1977.

• 9 August. Aksentti, January 1994, a magazine from Finland. Obituary, on 5 pages with short reviews of several albums, including even Touch me there by Shankar and Shampoo Horn by Z.

• 8 August. Rock magazine Polip from Hungary. 1988 July issue contains a Vienna concert review. 1989 March issue has an exclusive interview - the journalist met Zappa by chance in the waiting room of the Schipoli airport.

• 7 August. British trade paper Music Week:
  - 1975 November 15 : Bongo Fury release problems
  - 1976 December 18 : Zoot Allures
  - 1977 November 12 : a full page WEA Records advert
  - 1978 April 22 : Zappa In New York

• 6 August. Civilization Phase III by David Fricke. Rolling Stone, August 24, 1995.

• 30 July. Italian weekly Nuovo Sound, February 24, 1975. Retrospective Uncle Meat.

• 29 July. German Musiker, July 1988. A 5-page interview with FZ.

• 28 July. Japanese Record Collectors' Magazine.
  - 1996 May : The Lost Episodes
  - 2021 September : interview with Ahmet Zappa

• 27 July. Hungarian short-living monthly Sztár Magazin, August 1988, containing an exclusive interview with FZ - "The white elephant of rock".

• 26 July. Litoral, Spanish magazine of poetry and art, issue 183/185, 1989, with "I'm the slime" lyrics translated to Spanish.

• 25 July. American lifestyle magazine Mondo Italiano, July 2022. "UMG becomes the permanent home of Frank Zappa estate".

• 23 July. Italian weekly Super Sound.
  - 1972 November 20 : Waka/Jawaka
  - 1973 January 8 : The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie
  - 1973 January 20 : a nice calendar

• 23 July. UK trade magazine in the 70s, Radio & Record News. Opinions on Studio Tan and Joe's Garage.

• 22 July. Japanese Player, April 1999. Translated article "Frank Zappa Lost Episode: Interview with Steve Vai and Mike Keneally".

• 22 July. Finnish Musa, October 1974. About Roxy & Elsewhere - "The show stank, Frank, but the record is OK ....."

• 21 July. Two issues from different sides of the Atlantic related to the 200 Motels film.
  - Italian weekly Qui Giovani, March 1971. The article is mainly about the banned Albert Hall concert, but contains pictures from 200 Motels film, half a year before the film's release.
  - American monthly Creem, February 1972. A long article by Rick Bolsom, "200 Motels: What's The Deal?".

• 20 July. Circus Raves revisited. Two issues of this short-living American monthly were added.
  - 1974 November, 4 page article on Live All Over The Place (actually published as Roxy & Elsewhere)
  - 1974 August : Very bad opinion about the album Apostrophe

• 20 July. Italian weekly Qui Giovani, May 1974. Captain Beefheart: "New album but this time for clear minds" (Unconditionally Guaranteed).

• 19 July. Weekly VeckoRevyn, July 30, 1980, from Sweden. May 31 Drammenshallen concert review with Arthur Barrow and David Logeman interview snippets, and some nice pictures. It was the time of "Bobby Brown" madness in Scandinavia!

• 19 July. British Beat Instrumental, August 1988. Zappa will have a session in Trident Studios. An Evening With Wild Man Fischer.

• 18 July. French Jazz Magazine, January 2012. Review of the Carnegie Hall 4 CD box.

• 18 July. Music Magazine, January 1988, from Japan. The feature of this month was the Ryko reissues of FZ's early albums.

• 17 July. Three issues of the Finnish Soundi, containing enjoyable album reviews by Hannu Tervaharju:
  - 1982 April : Shut Up'n Play Yer Guitar
  - 1982 September : Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
  - 1985 February : Them Or Us

• 16 July. German teenager magazine Bravo. Six issues from different sources were added.

• 15 July. Italian monthly Buscadero.
  2017 December : Halloween 77
  2018 March : comic book Zappit! and The Roxy Performances
  2019 November : The Hot Rats Sessions

• 14 July. I Shot Frank Zappa is the autobiography of Robert Davidson, who shot to fame with his iconic photograph of Frank Zappa sitting on the toilet.

• 14 July. 3rd main Hungarian youth magazine of the communist era - Ifjúsági Magazin. Four issues printed in the 80s, including one containing interview with Frank Zappa.

• 13 July. British weekly Sounds, May 3, 1975. The interview with Allen Toussant has a Zappa part. And full-page article "Zappa And The Groupie Papers".

• 12 July. Hungarian youth magazine Magyar Ifjúság (Hungarian Youth). Four different issues from 1971-1988. Vienna 1988 concert review is a nice read.

• 12 July. Dutch Oor, January 1979. Joe's Garage Act I explained in detail.

• 11 July. Italian Rockstar.
  - 1986 December : Apostrophe & Over-Nite Sensation on CD
  - 1987 February 1987: Jazz From Hell, quite a disparaging review.

• 11 July. Record Collector, July 2007. DVD Classic Albums: Apostrophe & Over-Nite Sensation.

• 10 July. Hungarian youth magazine Világ Ifjúsága (Youth of the World). Six different issues from 1979-1987.

• 9 July. Short Frank Zappa discography, published in 3 consecutive issues of Ciao 2001 in December 1974.

• 8 July. Zappa is a new Spanish book by Quim Casas Moliner, a well-known cinema critic, writer and collaborator in rock magazines.

• 8 July. Japanese Guitar Magazine, May 1983. Interview with FZ by Tom Mulhern.

• 8 July. German music monthly Visions, January 2013 with Frank Zappa Buyer's Guide.

• 6 July. Freshly printed in June - N-Lite: The Compositions by Frank Zappa by Heikki Poroila. This 450 page B5 size book is a catalog of every musical work that Frank Zappa created.

• 6 July. German stage and studio equipment magazine Tools 4 Music, April/May 2018. The digitization of the Frank Zappa sound archive.

• 6 July. Short interview with FZ on Baby Snakes. French Best, March 1980.

• 5 July. In 1979 Crawdaddy changed its title to Feature.
  1979 January : Shiny Beast, Studio Tan
  1979 February : Frank Zappa's ten favorite things in 1978.

• 4 July. American rock magazine Crawdaddy, 4 following issues added today:
  1975 July : "Zappa Downs Beefheart"
  1975 September : "When In Doubt Say 'Arf'" (One Size Fits All)
  1976 March : "Trout Mask Replica / Uncle Meat"
  1977 February : "Frank Zappa Gets The Mothership" (Zoot Allures)

• 3 July. "11 questions to Frank Zappa". Interview made in Clarence Gate Club, London, by Hungarian illustrated weekly Képes 7, June 1987.

• 3 July. British Sounds, March 1986. The Zappa Collection ad.

• 2 July. Oldest Japanese cinema magazine Kinema Junpo, May 2022. Zappa documentary reviewed and a lot more reading on FZ.

• 2 July. A very early American Creem issue, vol.2 no.1, May 1969.

• 1 July. Arf-Dossier #112, June 2022, from Germany. You should know that after a break of couple of years, the Zappanale festival will take place again - July 15.-17. Music is the best!