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Frank Zappa RIP

David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 18 December 1993

FRANK ZAPPA, who died last week at the age of 52, has long been regarded as one of the most important figures in rock, a genuine enigma operating at the forefront of the radically unusual. DAVID STUBBS reassesses the former Mother Of Invention's work

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