Frank Zappa, 1940-1993

In his little more than fifty years of life, Frank Zappa lived in the front row the birth of rock & roll, the Californian underground that gave rise to the hippie movement, sexual liberation and the revolutionary youth movements of the sixties, the arrival of rock, disco and punk, Reagan-era conservatism and the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, he published more than sixty records that alternated great symphonic works with the most scatological songs or combined political commentary with electronic music. A staunch defender of freedom of expression and enemy of limits, nothing escaped his satire and no musical style was alien to him. Frank Zappa considered himself first and foremost a composer and considered all of his work -sound, visual and textual- of his as a great work that he was working on all his life. Just what the world needed: just another Frank Zappa biography.