The Real Frank Zappa Book

The Real Frank Zappa Book
AuthorFrank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso
Cover artistA. West (concept), Jackie Seow-Pracher (design), Greg Gorman (photography)
LanguageEnglish
GenreAutobiography, memoir, essays
PublisherPoseidon Press (US)
Picador (UK)
Publication date
1989
Publication placeUnited States
Media typeHardcover
Pages352 pp
ISBN0-671-70572-5
OCLC43484351

The Real Frank Zappa Book is an autobiography/memoir by Frank Zappa, co-written by Peter Occhiogrosso, and published by Poseidon Press. The text is copyright 1989 Frank Zappa, and copyright 1990 Simon & Schuster, Inc. Since 1999, the book has been published in paperback by Touchstone Books.

Contents

The Real Frank Zappa Book has 19 chapters:

  2. INTRODUCTION Book? What book?
  3. How Weird Am I, Anyway?
  4. There Goes the Neighborhood
  5. An Alternative to College
  6. Are We Having a Good Time Yet?
  7. The Log Cabin
  8. Send In the Clowns
  9. Drool, Britannia
  10. All About Music
  11. A Chapter for My Dad
  12. The One You've Been Waiting For
  13. Sticks & Stones
  14. America Drinks and Goes Marching
  15. All About Schmucks
  16. Marriage (as a Dada Concept)
  17. "Porn Wars"
  18. Church and State
  19. Practical Conservatism
  20. Failure
  21. The Last Word

Reviews

Vanity Fair wrote of the book, "An autobiography of mostly hilarious stories...fireside war tales from the big bad days of the rockin' sixties...primer of the sonic avant-garde, the book bashes favorite Zappa targets and dashes a few myths about the man."[1]

The New York Post said, "This book belongs in every home".[2]

References

  1. ^ Zappa, Frank; Peter Occhiogrosso (1989). The Real Frank Zappa Book (First Touchstone Edition 1999 ed.). Touchstone. pp. front cover. ISBN 0-671-70572-5.
  2. ^ Zappa, Frank; Peter Occhiogrosso (1989). The Real Frank Zappa Book (First Touchstone Edition 1999 ed.). Touchstone. pp. back cover. ISBN 0-671-70572-5.


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