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Zappa

(ˈzæpə)
n
(Biography) Frank. 1940–93, US rock musician, songwriter, and experimental composer: founder and only permanent member of the Mothers of Invention. His recordings include Freak Out (1966), Hot Rats (1969), and Sheik Yerbouti (1979)
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Jay: When I was a baby, my dad would play be a combination of Frank Zappa and Daft Punk to calm me down in my cot.
On tour in the US in 1976 Roxy Music supported Frank Zappa. Eddie was invited to travel with Zappa's band around Canada in 1976, they shared many jam sessions behind the scenes.
Bob is survived by his children John Dowse, Mary Louise Zappa (Randall Hahn), Christopher Dowse, his four grandchildren Catherine (Ryan) Wettergren, James Zappa, Christopher Dowse, and Thomas Dowse, and his three great-grandsons Steven Wettergren, Reid Wettergren and Cole Wettergren all of whom he was very proud and loved dearly.
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ONE of the most prolific, iconoclastic and virtuoso rock musicians of the 20th century, Frank Zappa was also one of the most divisive.
The famously quirky Hollywood Hills compound of the late, great, and widely influential musician Frank Zappa sold for $5.25 million and, though the buyer's identity is shielded behind an inscrutable trust, word on the celebrity real estate street is that the beneficiary is none other than modern-day music industry iconoclast Lady Gaga.