R.I.P. Frank
Dave Rimmer, MOJO, January 1994
[NOTE: This was part of Mojos obituary for Frank Zappa, and was published in January 1994. The brief was simply to look at his career by going back through the records.]
"A composer's job essentially involves the decoration of fragments of time. Without time, nothing can happen. Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines, or a collection of dates by which bills must be paid."
Frank Zappa
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