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From Simon & Schuster, the brash and funny autobiography of music legend Frank Zappa. "The Real Frank Zappa Book" tells his wild rock stories and bureaucratic confrontations.

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From Simon & Schuster, the brash and outrageously funny autobiography of music legend Frank Zappa

The Real Frank Zappa Bookis the real story of how he became the state of the art in weirdness, as only he can tell it: wild rock 'n' roll road stories, confrontations with bureaucratic idiocy, and more.

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Frank Vincent Zappa was a musician, singer, composer, songwriter and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity and satire of American culture.

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Contents

Introduction Book? What Book?

1 How Weird Am I, Anyway?

2 There Goes the Neighborhood

3 An Alternative to College

4 Are We Having a Good Time Yet?

5 The Log Cabin

6 Send In the Clowns

7 Drool, Britannia

8 All About Music

9 A Chapter for My Dad

10 The One You've Been Waiting For

11 Sticks & Stones

12 America Drinks and Goes Marching

13 All About Schmucks

14 Marriage (as a Dada Concept)

15 "Porn Wars"

16 Church and State

17 Practical Conservatism

18 Failure

19 The Last Word

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