Library Rock's Backpages

AUDIO: Frank Zappa (1988)

Paul Zollo, Rock's Backpages audio, 1988

The head Mother is brutally frank about the record-buying public and the bankruptcy of pop songwriting; on being exposed to Varese; learning to "draw" music as a kid; the difference between songwriting and composition, and deconstructs the modern pop song (and a whole lot more).

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