‘A mind is like a parachute,’ said Frank Zappa: ‘It doesn’t work if it ... groups to feel even more underrepresented, as if a boot must somehow be imprinted on the face of anyone not ...

Lily Tomlin served as host and musical guest during the first season of the sketch show in 1975 and again in 1983. The first time around, she sang with Howard Shore & the All Nurse Band, and on the ...

bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith – and issued on Frank Zappa’s label, Straight Records. It bombed. But if the band needed publicity, they soon got it. Following a performance at a ...

Navigating Frank Zappa's extensive catalog can be one of the trickiest and frustrating endeavors a music fan can undertake. From his debut in June 1966 with the Mothers of Invention's double Freak ...

“Four Frightened People! Ominous! Grotesque!” The original poster for this Zappa-scored 1965 B-movie reads like a Mothers spoof. But it’s as genuine as Frank’s passion was for this early project, with ...

Unfortunately for Frank Zappa, one particularly jilted boyfriend decided to get violent at one of his London shows on December 10, 1971. The Mothers Of Invention were performing at the Rainbow ...

In the late 1960s, a decidedly horrible show at the Cheetah Club in Los Angeles’ Venice neighborhood led to the Alice Cooper Band crossing paths with the legendarily eccentric Frank Zappa.

As a child, Frank Zappa played with mercury—an anecdote as bizarre as it is true. His father, a chemist in the defence industry, would bring home used lab equipment, passing it to his pre-adolescent ...

For a man who preached about love and peace so much, though, John Lennon could be cutthroat when he wanted to as well, and Frank Zappa was less than thrilled looking back on everything they did ...

NEW YORK: Joele Frank is supporting both sides of Walgreens Boots Alliance’s acquisition by private equity firm Sycamore Partners. The holding company of retail pharmacy chains Walgreens and Duane ...

The validity of late "American Pickers" star Frank Fritz's will is being challenged by his father, William Fritz, in an Iowa court, Fox News Digital confirmed. Frank, who died from complications ...

Not terribly long ago, I made the observation that you never really see Frank Zappa cover bands. And then a million people told me about Dweezil Zappa's band, Zappa Plays Zappa, but let's face it: ...