Beatles on frank zappa biography

The Beatles were a world famous and popular British rock band....

Zappa had several conversations with Paul McCartney about the album cover of WOIIFTM and had to get his permission to recreate it so closely.

Frank Zappa talking about The Beatles in an interview: (April 1, ) "I didn't hate them.

The Beatles were a world famous and popular British rock band.

Musical genius, rock'n'roll outsider, sexual obsessive, the 'original shock rocker' – this is the epic story of how Frank Zappa became Frank Zappa.

Zappa recorded 20 times as much material as the Beatles.

Veteran British journalist Barry Miles pens the definitive biography of irreverent rocker Frank Zappa.

Zappa by Barry Miles. Grove Press

By Milo Miles

Veteran British journalist and biographer Barry Miles, who has specialized in the Beatles and the Beats, treats Frank Zappa with the same corrosive irreverence the artist applied to every subject he discussed or wrote a song about.

At the same time, Miles shows strong, though buried, affection for an unfettered, headstrong bandleader-composer who could only have flourished in 1960s America.

This is a wise course to follow. Zappa died of prostate cancer almost 11 years ago at the age of 52, but the iconoclastic pioneer has never gone away.

He released an immense amount of music and new fans continue to discover him through satiric and experimental-rock landmarks like the Mothers of Invention’s “Freak Out!” (1966) or jazz-fusion faves like “One Size Fits All,” (1975) or sexist and homophobic gross