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Frank Zappa

Few challenged musical conventions more daringly than Frank Zappa, a hugely influential figure who fronted The Mothers Of Invention for many years before embarking on yet ever more wilder musical explorations on his own. From a colourful French, Italian, Greek and Arab ancestry, Zappa grew up a sickly child in various parts of America and, although he learned to play guitar at a young age, his first musical experience was as a drummer playing in a band in San Diego. He soon became involved in the alternative underground culture and was particularly influenced by the burgeoning ps...