The Real Frank Zappa Book

The Real Frank Zappa Book
Author Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso
Cover artist A. West (concept), Jackie Seow-Pracher (design), Greg Gorman (photography)
Country United States
Language English
Genre Autobiography, memoir, essays
Publisher Poseidon Press (US)
Picador (UK)
Publication date
 1989
Media type Hardcover
Pages 352 pp
ISBN 0-671-70572-5
OCLC 43484351

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:

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