Frank Zappa: The Mother Of All Reinventions
Charles Shaar Murray, Independent, The, 21 November 2003
IF CIGARETTES AND COFFEE are available in the afterlife, the shade of Frank Zappa is probably allowing himself a wry smile from beneath his formidable moustache as he fires up another Winston, enjoys a slug of steaming tarry liquid and contemplates the controversy his work still generates 10 years after his death at the age of 53.
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