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    Feb 06, 2023 3 minutes

    FRANK ZAPPA

    The fabulously weird world of a true musical maverick

    pproaching Frank Zappa’s back catalogue is an intimidating prospect. I discovered his music as a teenager via my parents’ copy of, his 1969 LP which lumbers from the psychedelic jazz fusion freakout to the gruff, crude and catchy , touching on everything from hard rock, doo-wop and parlour music in between. My curiosity piqued, I headed to the Zappa section at Tower Records in Dublin, where it dawned on me, or, or. What I found instead were at least 30 different LPs, plastered with lewd and colourful cover art which in all their striking vividness gave nothing of their content away. Where to begin? Where indeed.

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