Automatic translation: Rivers of words have been written about Frank Zappa. Often attempts have been made to go back to the character, to give a face to the personality through his compositions: the conventional image of the person and far from the real one. Let's see why. Talking about it and Frank Zappa himself. (read more)

Source: Fulvio Fiore

Source: Fulvio Fiore

Automatic translation: Speaking of punk, the 38-year-old Italian-American from Baltimore said: «I'm too evolved to feel punk. Unfortunately a lot of people writing about rock criticism today, and more specifically about punk, weren't there during the 1960s because otherwise they would know that punk was already there. And it was even better ». (read more)

Source: Fulvio Fiore

Automatic translation: And so here is the arrival at the Hyde Park Hotel in London of Mr. Zappa and Mr. Smothers, assistant, secretary, bodyguard who came out of the pages of "Uncle Tom" who, from the height of his three meters in height, sentenced : "This fucking English television is the same as the American one, it sucks." And he wrinkles his back on the elegant back of the armchair with a wavy and careless way of his own phosphorescent Hawaiian shirt. America. (read more)

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Automatic translation: Zappa in New York is yet another album of the artist's legal quarrels with the record company. The record was ready and packaged since October 1977, parked in the warehouse now sees the light seven months after everything has smoothed out for the worst with Warner Brothers. Recorded live, in New York in fact, between Christmas and New Year 1976 and this is the album of the latest production that more than the others will reconcile him with all that European public who have always loved him for an image that after all was not exactly the her. (read more)

Source: Fulvio Fiore

Automatic translation:
Scuffle in a New York club
Incredible fist fight in a well-known 5th street dance club between singer Paul Simon and eccentric and unpredictable Frank Zappa. The fist fight born out of a trivial quarrel between lovers almost immediately deteriorated into a real unprecedented brawl.

Source: Fulvio Fiore

Source: slime.oofytv.set 

Automatic translation: Speaking of punk, the 38-year-old Italian-American from Baltimore said: «I'm too evolved to feel punk. Unfortunately a lot of people writing about rock criticism today, and more specifically about punk, weren't there during the 1960s because otherwise they would know that punk was already there. And it was even better ». (read more)

Source: Fulvio Fiore

Source: Fulvio Fiore

Automatic translation: A new personal label, Zappa records - with peaceful characters and a bit of a comic strip - for the whole American market, CBS for the rest of the world and a clear work program. All the maximum creative freedom for the artist, a large promotional plan with advertising in all the magazines, radio-television passages made by Zappa himself - lucky them - and the usual world tour «... so extremely boring!». And, of course, a double album, this one, dazzling, exhilarating, full of rock, quotes, insults and sex. Who said "ours" was losing its shine? (read more) 

Source: Fulvio Fiore

Automatic translation: Thirty-nine years old, a dandy with a fly mustache, his wife's trousers and sandals: à Frank Zappa.
D .: In your opinion are tours always a pleasure or a necessary corvée?
Frank Zappa: «Touring Europe is never a pleasure. I hate European tours». (read more)

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Automatic translation: It is arguably Zappa's most outrageous and beautiful album, and radio programmers in America have made it known that apart from the title track, there are few things suitable for programming. (read more) 

Short news. Automatic translation: LOS ANGELES "They're not pretty, they're short," said Frank Zappa of his new haircut, the first in thirteen years. "So I said fuck it and I had Gail (his wife) cut them off." However, this is not the only novelty in the Zappa house; a new child, the fourth, was born and is called Diva, because she "when she was born she was the loudest child in all maternity". In addition, Frank has just finished setting up his own recording studio on the first floor of the house. Sophisticated systems keep him in the room sixteen hours a day and he has already ready the volumes two and three of "Joe's Garage" which is scheduled to be released in January. The rest of the day he spends on the set of the new film that he finally managed to make. It's called Baby Snakes and put your soul in peace because it will probably never come to us. One of the themes of the film is that of "Total Criminalization" of which it seems that Zappa has intuition by reading the various Italian political events daily in the newspapers (do not forget his Sicilian parents). So we asked for an excerpt of all this exclusively for us at Popster, he sent it to us in poetry:

Source: Fulvio Fiore

Roxy & Elsewhere is listed under "100 most important discs of the 70s" and FZ as one of the most important musicians.

Source: Fulvio Fiore

Automatic translation: We didn't have to wait long, after tasting the first act, for the conclusion of this Joe's Garage, yet another operetta on vinyl by Frank Zappa. The prolific Italian-American is no longer a novelty, there are nine albums throughout the year. (read more) 

Source: Fulvio Fiore

Automatic translation: The new film by Frank Zappa has arrived in Europe, presented in world premiere in New York last December 21st, the same birthday as the Italian American. The title is Baby Snakes and was mainly shot during four end-of-year concerts held by the old group which included Terry Bozzio on drums. Chances are good that the film will also come to us, Zappa came to Europe just to try to sell the film to some distribution company. We clearly couldn't let the opportunity pass us by. (read more)

Source: Fulvio Fiore