Who is the best rock musician of all time? Bob Dylan? Jimi Hendrix? Maybe, for the genre’s historians, an overlooked innovator like Sister Rosetta Tharpe? The debate among fans will never be settled: taste is subjective. A more interesting, if less discussed, question is: who is the weirdest? There are lots of plausible candidates. The Residents, an anonymous quartet, dressed like giant eyeballs with top hats and canes. Ozzy Osbourne had a pet shoe. Not to mention 1980s noise-rock outfit the Butthole Surfers. For me, the answer to both these questions is one and the same: Frank Zappa, the most eccentric, versatile, talented and – bluntly – pretentious figure on the scene. (read more)

Source: prospectmagazine.co.uk