![]() Barry Miles and his biography of Frank Zappa are under scrutiny. Dredging up the worst foibles and indiscretions, drug addictions, wife/husband beatings and whatever nasty childhood neuroses the biographer can find before announcing that their chosen subject was really just another version of Pol Pot.īut hey, I'm waffling a load of old pony. ![]() Stool two is salacious character assassination. These make me want to 'bowk-up', as the once mighty Viz once said. Stool one is hagiography of the most odious aggrandizing type, cosily back slapping its chosen subject into some kind after-deathly fantasy and raising whatever bar their reputations rested on to undeserved heights. The book is translated into German, Italian, Finnish, Japanese and Dutch ( Zappa De biografie, ISBN 90-6005-556-X, softcover, 2005).īitesize: Studious and engaging biography of one of music's most revered figures:īiographies of dead personalities rest shakily between two wobbly stools – mostly. In USA the book is titled Zappa: A Biography, in UK Frank Zappa: The Biography. ![]() This book was first printed in November 2004 and re-printed 2005 in softcover with revisons and corrections. ![]()
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