And by the sounds of things, that’s exactly what Zappa did. “He has two solos, but the main solo is like all his greatest hits of all of his best guitar licks,” says Zappa. “And it was ...

Newcomers begin here – this rocking, brilliantly ambitious follow-up to an album of 1950s doo-wop pastiches was Zappa’s biggest UK hit, and his first album after splitting up the first Mothers ...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of “Valley Girl,” Frank Zappa’s sardonic ... Valley–became the innovative artist’s biggest hit in the U.S. and inadvertently popularized “Valspeak ...