Frank Zappa: Past Flops And Future Shocks
Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 25 August 1973
HIS ARMS AROUND a red-haired girl whose ample chest was covered with a Mighty Thor t-shirt, debonair Frank Zappa (32) sank deeper into the couch, flexed his bare bronzed torso, refused a Gitane "Too strong for me" and concentrated his mind on the latest edition of the Mothers of Invention.
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