Zappa Books

New Entries.

• 1 December. Melody Maker, 24 December 1994. John Peel on the highlights of his first 40-odd years as a music lover. No Zappa, but Captain Beefheart is present.

• 30 November. British Beat Instrumental, August 1972. Just Another Band From L.A. plus Alice Cooper on Frank Zappa. And another issue of the magazine from September 1975, which talks about Captain Beefheart.

• 21 November. Esquire, February 1996. About the statue of Zappa erected in Lithuania.

• 21 November. French monthly Best, March 1988.

• 20 November. Zappa, Vol 1 with the London Symphony Orchestra reviewed by Zoogz Rift. Music Connection, July 1983.

• 19 November. Two Music Connection editions more:
  - 1982 July : Moon Unit - A Child Of The Studio
  - 1982 October : Zappa peels Studio Tan

• 18 November. Two Music Connection editions:
  - 1978 November : SNL performane review
  - 1980 February :  FRANK ZAPPA when asked his opinion of new wave music: Some of it is good and some of it is very boring. I like a couple of songs I heard by the Stranglers. I saw the B-52's in New York and I thought they were great. "Rock Lobster" is really good.

• 3 November. A couple of reviews from the great British magazine Q, which sadly no longer exists.
  - 1993 July : Frank Zappa Presents: The Amazing Mr Bickford
  - 1994 January : Frank Zappa & The Ensemble Modern: The Yellow Shark

• 2 November. Esquire, April 1993. Cucamonga Years: The Early Works of Frank Zappa, 1962-1964.

• 1 November. The last batch of issues (6) of Bizz magazine, from 1994-1999. Contains a full range of album reviews as reissued on CD in succession.

• 31 October. Some fun Bizz issues more:
  - 1993 June : The worst albums of all time (incl. Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar)
  - 1993 July : The most important prog albums (incl. Zappa In New York)
  - 1993 November : anniversary issue #100 with several FZ references

• 30 October. Bizz, June 1988. Zappa's concert at Wembley in London.

• 29 October. Bizz was a quality Brazilian music magazine. We added some record reviews from there.
  - 1986 April : We're Only In It For The Money
  - 1986 June : Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention
  - 1986 July : Sheik Yerbouti
  - 1987 April : Tinseltown Rebellion
  - 1987 June : Jazz From Hell
  - 1988 March : Trout Mask Replica

• 26 October. Disco Actualidad, May 1980. A magazine from Zaragoza, Spain. Joe's Garage Act I published in Spain and reviewed.

• 23 October. Magazine Q, January 1997. Article about rock musicians in classical music - Grateful Dead, Paul McCartney, Deep Purple, Frank Zappa.

• 22 October. Rip It Up, free magazine from New Zealand. The page has been updated and improved.
  - 1978 December : Studio Tan
  - 1979 July : Sheik Yerbouti
  - 1979 December : Orchestral Favorites, Joe's Garage Act I
  - 1980 April : Joe's Garage Acts II & III
  - 1980 May : Captain Beefheart and Shiny Beast
  - 1982 April : You Are What You Is
  - 1983 October : The Man From Utopia

• 21 October. El Musicquero, musician's magazine from Argentina. Two issues added:
  - 1987 June : several articles and interviews with FZ
  - 1996 November : Läther

• 20 October. Two articles from the well-known Spanish weekly Triunfo:
  - 1974 October : "Frank Zappa: The Badalona concert"
  - 1979 March : "Frank Zappa: The perverse moralist of rock"

• 19 October. Portuguese Musica & Som, January 1979 with some pictures of FZ at the Saarbrücken festival.

• 18 October. Jazz From Hell review in Scottish magazine Cut, January 1987.

• 16 October. Australian Mixdown, March 2012. Interview with Dweezil Zappa.

• 14 October. Frank Zappa: The Definitive Collection of Guitar Tabs appeared in July. Purchase of this book is not recommended.

• 13 October. Italian magazine Guitar Club:
  - 2019 April : Zappa In New York 40th Anniversary
  - 2020 July/August : The Mothers 1971
  - 2021 November : 200 Motels 50th Anniversary
  - 2022 April : The Mothers 1971
  - 2022 July/August : Zappa, il fumetto book review

• 11 October. "La notte del fumo sull'acqua" (The night of smoke on the water). An excellent book by photographer Moreno Nicolosi, devoted entirely to the Montreux casino fire of 4 December 1971. Foreword written by Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice.

• 10 October. British Record Mirror:
  - 1978 April : Zappa In New York
  - 1978 October : Studio Tan

• 10 October. Dutch music trade magazine Muziek & Beeld Info, April 1978. "Dancin' Fool" single ad.

• 9 October. British fanzine Outlet, August 1978. Uncle Meat.

• 8 October. Hullabaloo, March 1967. "Mothers Of Invention".

• 8 October. New Music Express, 4 February 1978. Hammersmith Odeon, London concert review by Charles Shaar Murray.

• 8 October. Rock Scene, January 1982. On the way into the Ritz, the '82 Frank Zappa.

• 8 October. Final Stereo Review pack:
  - 1983 November : London Smphony Orchestra, Volume 1 and The Man from Utopia
  - 1985 March : Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger and Them or Us
  - 1992 October : Beat The Boots, Vol. 2
  - 1994 March : Track Records
  - 1997 January : Läther

• 7 October. Third Stereo Review six-pack:
  - 1977 April : Zoot Allures
  - 1978 May : Pop Rotogravure - a weird short story
  - 1979 June : Sheik Yerbouti
  - 1979 December : Joe's Garage, Act I
  - 1981 October : Tinsel Town Rebellion
  - 1982 December : Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch

• 6 October. More from Stereo Review:
  - 1971 November : The Mothers, Fillmore East – June 1971
  - 1972 November : Just Another Band from L.A.
  - 1973 January : Waka/Jawaka – Hot Rats
  - 1975 March : Roxy & Elsewhere
  - 1975 December : One Size Fits All
  - 1976 March : Bongo Fury

• 5 October. It's good to read album reviews written when the album first came out, not years later. American magazine Stereo Review:
  - 1968 August : We're Only In It For The Money
  - 1969 August : Uncle Meat
  - 1970 January : The **** Of The Mothers
  - 1970 June : Burnt Weeny Sandwich
  - 1971 January : Weasels Ripped My Flesh
  - 1971 March : Chunga's Revenge

• 4 October. Arf-Dossier #117. Quite a lot of the content of this issue is devoted to the idea of creating a Zappa Museum.

• 2 October. Reviews of two rare DVD-Audio albums in British magazine Hi-Fi World:
  - 2004 January : Halloween
  - 2005 January : Quaudiophiliac

• 1 October. Australian men's magazine People, January 1978, with FZ poster.

• 30 September. "Frank Zappa / Wembley" by Charles Shaar Murray. NME, 22 September 1973.

• 30 September. Japanese Rhythm & Drums Magazine, August 2002. Drummers around Zappa.

• 29 September. Frank Zappa: A Grande Mãe (The Great Mother) is a book in Portuguese, published in 1988. This is one of the early comprehensive approaches to Frank Zappa's work. Those interested can find this book in some antiquarian shops.

• 24 September. Guitar Magazine from Japan, February 2002 issue. "Every Picture Tells A Story", a collection of photos of legendary guitarists.

• 23 September. Radio One Story of Pop was a weekly encyclopedia by BBC Radio 1 published in 1973. Volume 16 contains "Shock Rock", an article on Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart and the Fugs.

• 22 September. Music Technology, April 1990. Interview with Patrick O'Hearn. "[Zappa] had sort of the Noah's Ark of electronic collections – just about two of everything with the exception of the E-mu system. He only had one of those. He had two Polymoogs, two Minimoogs, and two ARP 2600s, among other things."

• 22 September. British Rave, January 1968. "Rave's New Year Honours List".

• 21 September. Life Is So Strange by Dale Bozzio. "I genuflect to Frank. I idolize Frank for his knowledge, his graciousness, his genius, and I’m indebted to him forever, forever and ever. He’s the hero of my book."

• 21 September. Italian Musikbox, November 2006.

• 21 September. Swedish comic book Ung och kär, July 1980.

• 20 September. British Classic Rock:
  - 2021 December : Frank Zappa: 200 Motels (50th Anniversary Edition)
  - 2022 April : Frank & Co book
  - 2022 May : The Mothers 1971
  - 2022 July : Zappa/Erie
  - 2022 November : Zagreb '75
  - 2023 January : Waka/Wazoo
  - 2023 April : Mudd Club/Munich

• 13 September. Some British publications.
  Mojo, August 2023 : Shake your tail (Funky Nothingness)
  Uncut, September 2022 : Zappa/Erie
  Uncut August 2023 : Funky Nothingness
  The Wire August 2023 : Funky Nothingness

• 12 September. Leading Polish rock monthly Teraz Rock. Two album cover stories:
  - 2021 February : We're Only In It For The Money
  - 2023 March : The Man From Utopia

• 11 September. Electronic Musician, September 1986. Frank Zappa, back from fighting the forces of evil in Washington, D.C. by championing truth, justice and the First Amendment, streches out in his home studio ready for some fun with The Digital Consort (his Synclavier): "Frank Zappa and His Digital Orchestra".

• 9 September. French Salut Les Copains, December 1971. "The Rock Family Affair" picture series from Life magazine reprinted.

• 9 September. A couple of recent issues of Japan's Record Collectors' Magazine, May 2022 and April 2023.

• 8 Sptember. An exclusive limited edition book Frank Zappa - European Music Press 1966-1970, compiled by Fulvio Fiore, who has also sent us a lot of material and to whom we are very grateful. The book was published in April 2023.

• 7 September. The largest magazine page we have here is undoubtedly Italian Ciao 2001. We include a whole series of issues from 1982. Perhaps the most important of them is the May 30 issue, which contains the Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar review.

• 6 September. Hungarian monthly Rockinform:
  - 1994 March : FZ discography and videography
  - 1994 November : Does Humor Belong In Music DVD
  - 1996 January : Strictly Commercial
  - 1996 June : The Lost Episodes
  - 1997 March : Läther

• 5 September. Several Marvel Comics series published a full-page We're Only In It For The Money advertisement between February and April 1968.

• 5 September. Australian Left Review, June 1990. Zapping Czechs.

• 4 September. One Thousand Mustaches, a book by Toronto-based psychiatrist Allan Peterkin. 2012.

• 4 September. German Jazz Podium, October/November 2018. Was Frank Zappa almost a jazzman?

• 3 September. Esquire, September 1969. "One whole page of people upon whom you can safely bestow love and admiration" - from Arthur C. Clarke to Frank Zappa.

• 3 September. "Yeh, just another band", album review in British Sounds, 1 July 1972.

• 2 September. From Australia - Mixdown #44, December 1997. Includes an overview of Zappa's discography and a review of the new 200 Motels soundtrack release.

• 1 September. "Torture Mama & The Open Brain", a Hammersmith, London concerts review by Miles, the well-known author of the Zappa books. NME, 19 February 1977.

• 31 August. "The Great Brassiere Conspiracy". This is Zappa's press conference where he announced that this time the UK concerts will all be cancelled. A good description of how London concert hall owners fought against Zappa concerts.  British NME, 14 September 1974.

• 30 August. Turkish monthly magazine Mr.P or Modern Rock Postasi. February 1995 issue.

• 29 August. Psichedelia in Opposition by Paolo Pellegrino is an 11-volume encyclopaedia of contemporary classics, avant-garde, jazz, rock, progressive folk and blues. The final, 11th volume, is devoted entirely to Frank Zappa and was published in February 2023.

• 29 August. Pornographic magazine Screw, October 1971.

• 28 August. Spain's Super Pop, #26 1979, includes a review of Zappa's visit to Spain.

• 28 August. Tattoo Energy, February 2018, a bimonthly publication from Milan, Italy. Article on FZ illustrated with several tattoo images.

• 27 August. Music Monitor, September 1990. "Frank Zappa on Rock of the 60s and the '90s ..."

• 26 August. Happening, May 1983. Third part of the 3-part interview "Frank Zappa - Right or Wrong?"

• 25 August. Fresh Arf Dossier #116. This time it's a particularly good read from Andrew Greenaway about how the track "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" was recorded.

• 25 August. Italian girls magazine Dolly, January 1985. Contains an "interview" which seems to be a complete figment of Dolly's editorial imagination and not based on any real conversation with Frank Zappa.

• 24 August. Californian magazine, Daily Variety, June 1969. Mothers of Invention, Chicago and Youngbloods joint concert review.

• 24 August. Alternative weekly Cleveland After Dark, June 1969. Happy The Mothers Day ad and Musicarnival concert announcement.

• 24 August. Musicarnival 1969 season / June 21 - Sept. 13

• 23 August. For now, the latest, fifth batch of issues of Scene magazine. The years 1985-1993.
  - 1985 February : Frank Zappa "Thing-Fish" "Francesco Zappa"
  - 1985 December : Frank Zappa "Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention"
  - 1986 September : Dweezil Zappa "Havin' A Bad Day"
  - 1987 March : Frank Zappa "Jazz From Hell"
  - 1988 March : Frank Zappa. Music Hall. March 5
  - 1993 December : Frank Zappa: 1941-1993

• 22 August. Here are the issues of Scene magazine from 1981-1984.
  - 1981 November : Frank Zappa. Public Hall. Nov. 19
  - 1982 June : Frank Zappa "Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch"
  - 1983 April : Frank Zappa "The Man From Utopia"
  - 1984 August : Frank Zappa. Blossom. Aug. 12
  - 1984 November : Frank Zappa. Front Row. November 14
  - 1984 November : Frank Zappa "Them Or Us"

• 21 August. Third pack of Scene issues, now from 1975-1979.
  - 1975 July : Frank Zappa and The Mothers "One Size Fits All"
  - 1976 November : Frank Zappa "Zoot Allures"
  - 1977 October : Frank Zappa. Public Hall. Oct. 9
  - 1977 November : Zappa a muse? (Poem written by a concert-goer)
  - 1978 April : Frank Zappa "Zappa In New York"
  - 1978 October : Frank Zappa. Public Hall. Oct. 1
  - 1979 October : Frank Zappa "Joe's Garage. Act I"

• 20 August. The second batch of Scene publications covering the years 1973-1974.
  - 1973 April : Two top jazz bands Mothers & John McLaughlin come to Kent
  - 1973 May : Bring him home, mother to mom (concert review)
  - 1973 October : The Mothers "Over-Nite Sensation"
  - 1973 November : concert preview and ad
  - 1974 November : Frank Zappa and The Mothers. Akron Civic Center. Nov. 27
  - 1974 April : Frank Zappa "Apostrophe" (rating: puke!)
  - 1974 December : Frank Zappa & The Mothers, Mannfred Mann's Earth Band. Public Hall. Dec. 3
  - 1974 December : (George) Duke has love affair with variety

• 19 August. The Scene from Cleveland is a decent publication and most issues are now digitised. Here is the first selection covering the years 1971-72.
  - 1971 May : Coming: Humble Pie & Mothers
  - 1971 June : Humble Pie equals The Mothers in Fantastic Concert
  - 1971 August : The Mothers "Fillmore East - June 1971"
  - 1971 September : Captain Beefheart "Trout Mask Replica"
  - 1971 October : The Mothers Of Invention "200 Motels" (Sound Track)
  - 1972 April : The Mothers "Just Another Band From L.A."
  - 1972 June : Geronimo Black
  - 1972 July : Frank Zappa "Waka/Jawaka"
  - 1972 December : Frank Zappa "Grand Wazoo"

• 17 August. G-Modern is a highly respected Japanese quarterly magazine on avant-garde music. They started in 1992 and the first 3 issues contained a story about Frank Zappa, the next 7 issues were about Captain Beefheart. We already had some numbers before, but now we added 5 more to them.

• 15 August. Czech bimonthly Rock History, year 1978 edition. There is an article about Zappa "Exorcising a devil named Warner".

• 14 August. "Mother Superior - Frank Zappa, the man they love to hate, interviewed by Penny Valentine". Published in the British Disc & Music Echo, June 1969.

• 14 August. Norwegian high school magazine Mokhasinen, 2/1979.

• 13 August. Interestingly, Australian journalist Jenny Brown again, but now with Zappa in Finland. The Finnish women's magazine Anna published in September 1973 a story about Zappa's visit to Finland with lots of pictures. One of the photos shows Jenny and Frank together.

• 12 August. A very peculiar album review from Jenny Brown - "A letter to Unka Frank, MCP supreme". Guess what MCP stands for. Australian underground paper The Digger, October 1972.

• 11 August. Japanese anthology of short biographies of rock guitarists - 200CD The Rock Guitarist. FZ is selected as one of "the 10 guitarists who changed the world". Published in 2006.

• 10 August. From Argentina, Expreso Imaginario, April 1978. Over-Nite Sensation was only then finally released in Argentina, and of course a review was published.

• 10 August. Italian Ciao 2001, December 1981. You Are What You Is.

• 9 August. American Esquire, October 1967 edition includes a "Secular Music" column by Robert Christgau. This article has an interesting section on Mothers Of Invetion. Did you know that Bunk Gardner is way better than Archie Shepp?

• 8 August. A massive book by John Raby - Frank Zappa. This 800-page book in French was publiced recently, in June 2023. As the author said: "[It is a] book that is intended as a practical guide to (re)discover the colossal work of one of the greatest composers of the last century."

• 6 August. Frank Zappa, musicista definitivo, is a book by Fabio Massimo Nicosia published in July 2023 in Italy. In the author's own words "The first serious research ever carried out from the point of view of musical culture on Frank Zappa, the Dionysian musician that Nietzsche was waiting for".

• 5 August. Some snippets from the Rolling Stone:
  - 1988 January : Freak Out! and Hot Rats reissued
  - 2005 February : Zappa: A Biography by Barry Miles reviewed

• 4 August. German Musikexpress, November 1973. An interview with Nektar's bass player Derek "Mo" Moore after the joint European concert tour with Zappa in September. Nektar was very unhappy with the whole arrangement and concluded that they would never tour with Zappa again.

• 3 August. Hallelujah Junction, a book by composer John Adams, contains a nice read on Frank Zappa.

• 2 August. "Frank and the Captain: the reunion worked out". Bongo Fury album review by Mick Farren (of The Deviants). New Musical Express, 8 November 1975.

• 2 August. "Backstage with Zappa and the Angels". The Aquarian Weekly, January 1978.

• 1 August. Rock Scene and its photos. In March 1976, pictures of the girl band Labelle on stage in New York were published. Frank Zappa was also photographed backstage.

• 1 August. Feuille d'Avis de Vevey, 7 December 1971. A local Swiss newspaper gives an eyewitness account of the famous Montreux casino concert and fire - "Frank Zappa: confirmation of a musician, revelation of a man".

• 31 July. American Audio magazine. Reviews of Zappa albums from later years from an audiophile point of view:
  - 1986 May : Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers of Prevention
  - 1987 July : Jazz From Hell & Shut Up'n Play Yer Guitar
  - 1990 March : You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 3
  - 1994 March : Zappa's Universe & The Yellow Shark

• 30 July. Circus, October 1972. In the issue you will find a review of Waka/Jawaka and a lengthy article of Phlorescent Leech & Eddy - "The Great Zappa Escape".

• 30 July. Dutch bimonthly music magazine Heaven. Three editions from 2021 and 2022.

• 29 July. Polish magazine Jazz Forum. Two exclusive interviews, both of which include a lot about Zappa.
  - 1992 September : Vinnie Colaiuta
  - 2001 June : Jean-Luc Ponty

• 28 July. In January, Jacopo Costa's book Le rock des expérimentateurs was published. There is a chapter on the music of Frank Zappa.

• 28 July. Young Guitar, June 2009. This issue has a concert review of ZPZ's second Japanese tour.

• 27 July. Rock Scene was a photo magazine that covered mainly the New York City music scene. The 1977 May issue  featured a picture of Frank Zappa backstage at a Ted Nugent concert in Madison Square Garden.

• 27 July. Amplified, Winter 2012. Music magazine of a school in Bronx, New York.

• 26 July. Japanese Player, February 2008. Includes a translation of the same Steve Rosen's classic 1977 interview, with Rosen writing a new introduction about how he almost got a puppy of Zappa's dog.

• 26 July. British Beat International, March 1977. A reprint of Steve Rosen's well-known interview that appeared in Guitar Player magazine earlier in January.

• 25 July. Creem, the "America's only rock 'n' roll magazine", was first two years 1969-1970 a tabloid-sized newspaper distributed only in Detroit. We added a lot of content from this period:
  - 1969 March : short news and Captain Beefheart
  - 1969 May : concert ad
  - 1969 August : Trout Mask Replica
  - 1969 October : Hot Rats ad
  - 1970 April : "Mothers / Rezapped"
  - 1970 May : Captain Beefheart
  - 1970 October : "New Mothers" and "Weasels Ripped My Flesh"

• 20 July. South African Muse Magazine, October/November 2011. Joe's Garage.

• 20 July. American musiczine Stubble, July 2008. Zappa Plays Zappa, Bank Of America Pavilion, Boston, MA

• 19 July. Moon Zappa's take on the music of 1983 and 1984. Trouser Press, December 1983.

• 19 July. Swedish Rock'n'Roll Magazine, #5 2020. Captain Beefheart, artist who went his own way.

• 17 July. German trade magazine MusikWoche:
  - 2013 June : A Token Of His Extreme
  - 2015 October : Zappa, The Movie
  - 2020 Januar : The Hot Rats Sessions
  - 2020 July : The Mothers 1970
  - 2021 March : Zappa (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  - 2021 June : Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show
  - 2021 December : 200 Motels (50th Anniversary Edition)
  - 2022 March : The Mothers 1971
  - 2022 June : Zappa/Erie
  - 2022 October : Zappa '75 Zagreb/Ljubljana
  - 2022 December : Waka/Wazoo
  - 2023 March : Zappa '80 Mudd Club/Munich
  - 2023 July : Funky Nothingness

• 13 July. Zappanale #32 has begun. A magnificent photo album that you can buy only on the spot at the Zappanale festival is Zappanale 2009-2019 by Corneliu Cazzacu.

• 13 July. Italian guitar monthly Nashville, March 1993.

• 10 July. Happy Forever is a newly published book by Mark Volman. Very good read! The Frank Zappa chapter was written based on interviews with, among others, Don Preston, Gail Zappa, Jim Pons, Ian Underwood, George Duke, Jeff Simmons, Aynsley Dunbar, Alice Cooper, Ray Manzarek, Micky Dolenz.

• 8 July. More from the British Guitarist:
  - 2010 November : Dweezil Zappa
  - 2011 February : The Torture Never Stops DVD
  - 2011 June : The 10 greatest SG players
  - 2013 Summer : Shell Shocked, a book by Howard Kaylan

• 1 July. Guitarist, October 2012. Steve Vai on playing with Frank Zappa. "Terrifying! To this day, if I hear Moggio, I get nervous..."

• 29 June. British monthly Guitarist, January 2012. Tony Bacon devotes this issue's column to the incomparable wisdom of Mr Frank Zappa ...

• 23 June. It's Midsummer's Day and it's a pleasure to announce that another Czech fanzine Zappostrophe #149 has been released.

• 22 June. Swedish men's magazine Lektyr, November 1967. Another publication of photos by Claudia Cardinale and Frank Zappa.

• 22 June. German comics magazine Fix und Foxi, #45 1991.

• 21 June. The Zappanale 2023 festival is approaching, and this time too, a special deluxe limited edition of the monumental new The Frank Zappa CD-Bootleg Compendium, compiled by Burkhard Schempp and Robert Gsteu, will be available on site. It consists of three hardcover books, totaling 980 pages.

• 20 June. Joe's Garage in the German biggest music monthly Musik Express:
  - 1979 September : announcement
  - 1979 October : ad
  - 1979 November : Joe's Garage ACT I review
  - 1980 January : Joe's Garage Acts II & III review

• 19 June. Australian Rhythms, March 2021. Reviews of the Live Detroit 1976 album and Zappa film.

• 18 June. British young woman magazine Honey, August 1971. "Zapp! Frank Zappa versus the Follower Of Convention".

• 17 June. "Frank Zappa's barbed wire fences". Interview from Dutch Oor, 13 February 1980.

• 17 June. A very rare entry. Brazilian surf(!) magazine Fluir, March 1985, with a review of Them Or Us album.

• 15 June. Brazilian Top Rock #5, 1992. "Rock Legends: Frank Zappa".

• 15 June. Vogue Italia, December 1981. The most ironic and overwhelming protagonist of 60s pop-rock music is back. 

• 12 June. Rare German monthly Image. Two editions from 1969 and 1970 with lyrics from the albums Uncle Meat and Trout Mask Replica.

• 8 June. San Diego underground biweekly Door:
  - 1968 December : Ruben And The Jets
  - 1969 April : common concert of the Mothers and Country Joe
  - 1971 January : "Chunga's Revenge"
  - 1971 April : "Frank Zappa & Zubin Mehta – 200 Hotels (Bootleg)"
  - 1971 August : "The Mothers "Fillmore East, June 1971" "

• 5 June. The San Diego Union, 3 June 1968. "The Mothers Of Invention In Hit Concert".

• 3 June. Great concert, good review - "Frank Zappa: The Palladium". One of the Halloween 77 concerts reviewed in Good Times, December 1977.

• 3 June. Major Hungarian newspaper Népszabadság.
  - 2000 December : "Sixty years of Frank Zappa"
  - 2002 December : Hungarian Frank Zappa association
  - 2013 April : The Grandmothers concert in Budapest

• 3 June. Two editions of the Italian weekly Ciao 2001 from December 1972.
  - "Pop History Vol. 11 Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention"
  - "Zappa's Mothers: the end of Mothers"

• 2 June. Rapping With Zappa: My 1970 Interview with Frank Zappa is a Kindle edition booklet by Francis Hamit. Published in March 2022.

• 2 June. Two old editions of the long-running American Audio magazine, with album reviews:
  - 1966 September : Freak Out!
  - 1969 November : Uncle Meat

• 1 June. Biweekly Shukan FM, 23 February 1976. Report of FZ's Japanese tour with pictures.

• 1 June. Finnish Soundi, February 1994. Zappa obituary and The Yellow Shark.

• 31 May. We received a beautiful package from Brazil. It contained several editions of the Poeira Zine magazine, which it is a pleasure to present here.
  - 2006 September: Freak Out!
  - 2010 November: A Movie For Your Ears
  - 2011 January: Zappa The Hard Way book review and 16(!) page Captain Beefheart special
  - 2015 January: Napoleon Murphy Brock
  - 2016 March: Zappaslavia (Zappa in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia)

• 30 May. Two issues of the American Billboard magazine:
  - 1994 November 1. 100th Anniversary issue : full-page Civilization Phaze III ad
  - 1995 May 6 : two articles by Drew Wheeler, "Rykodisc Plots Zappa Attack" and "Preserving Zappa's Legacy".

• 27 May. "Crazy touring sets pace". The Evergreen State College Paper (later the Cooper Point Journal) on 200 Motels. 6 December 1971.

• 26 May. Mudd Club Newsletter June 1980. "Since meeting William Burroughts in the Mudd Club basement a year ago, Frank Zappa had been anxious to follow up the Burroughs night with his own performance. Despite the fact that the Zappa equipment alone takes up more space that the size of the whole club, a few customers managed to squeeze in and enjoy the concert, especially the new recording specifically dedicated to the Mudd Club."

• 26 May. Tippy's Friends Go-Go & Animal, September 1968. A comic book with an MOI picture.

• 25 May. Another record review from the Dutch magazine Oor. Tinsel Town Rebellion. Oor, 17 June 1981.

• 24 May. Dutch long-running music paper Oor, 7 October 1981. You Are What You Is.

• 22 May. The Puppetry Journal, Summer 1994. In Memoriam Frank Zappa.

• 21 May. Another interview you haven't read before. Belgian weekly Panorama, March 1990. Long interview by Raf Sauviller at Frank Zappa's home - "Zappa For President".

• 19 May. The Mother People Anthology features the first 13 issues of Mother People, a Frank Zappa fanzine produced from 1981 through 1989 by Rob Cerreta, Frank fanatic from the first generation of Zappa fans. Edited and introduced by Scott Parker.

• 14 May. Some album reviews from German Musikexpress:
  - May 1981 : Tinsel Town Rebellion (✮✮✮)
  - March 1982 : Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (✮✮✮✮✮✮)
  - June 1982 : Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch (✮✮)
  - June 1983 : The Man From Utopia (✮✮)
  - November 1984 : Them Or Us (music ✮✮✮✮✮ lyrics ✮)

• 13 May. Hungarian political and social weekly Magyarország, May 1971. Article on 200 Motels.

• 12 May. Brutus is a Japanese men's magazine devoted to pop culture and lifestyles. May 2022 edition has a special feature entitled "My Shelves, My Life", which includes a photo of Frank Zappa's workroom.

• 11 May. Belgian youth weekly Joepie. Two editions from 1982 on Moon Zappa: 25 July and 26 September.

• 10 May. Portuguese Musicalissimo No. 2, 1980. Joe's Garage Act I.

• 8 May. British Mojo, June 1996. "Greatest Guitarists Of All Time" - FZ #28. Plus Rykodisc catalog supplement.

• 7 May. New Musical Express, 25 May 1968.
  Meanwhile, Eric Clapton showed up to see The Mothers Of Invention at their Shrine Auditorium concert and ended up doing a guest set with them that set the audience wild.

• 7 May. Pop from Switzerland:
  - July 1972 : Just Another Band From L.A.
  - September 1972 : Waka/Jawaka

• 2 May. Spanish Ruta 66 (Route 66):
  - February 1998 : 200 Motels
  - May 1998 : FZ special, 8 pages

• 24 April. Canadian student newspaper The Varsity:
  - 22 October 1971 :  Toronto concert review
  - 8 December 1971 : 200 Motels vs Fiddler on the Roof

• 24 April. Italian Musikbox, November 2003. Does Humor Belong In Music (DVD)

• 22 April. New Musical Express, FZ interview by Charles Shaar Murray in two parts:
  - 25 August 1973
  - 1 September 1973

• 22 April. German Stereoplay:
  - 1986 November : classic rock albums in CD format
  - 1987 February : Jazz From Hell

• 20 April. Greek Pop & Rok:
  - 1978 December : Chunga's Revenge
  - 1979 March : "Art Rock" by John Rockwell

• 20 April. British Music Week, 2 August 2013. "Kobalt signs major Frank Zappa deal".

• 19 April. The April 1983 edition of the Italian magazine Frigidaire includes a photograph of Frank Zappa reading a previous issue of the publication while in Sicily in 1982. The magazine featured the comic strip/character Ranxerox. After seeing the magazine, Zappa approached the artist and requested that he produce the cover of his album "Man from Utopia" with Zappa's head superimposed on the body of Ranxerox.

• 18 April. Japanese Record Collectors' Magazine, January 1994. Includes a 12-page Captain Beefheart special.

• 18 April. Estonian daily paper Päevaleht, 7 December 1993. Zappa obituary.

• 17 April. A 15-page Zappa special in Swedish Rock'n'Roll Magazine #7, 2022.

• 15 April. German Fono Forum, October 2016. "Beat The Boots".

• 15 April. French Best, May 1973. "Ruben and the Jets "For Real!"".

• 12 April. Guitarist Australia, February/March 2007. "The weird and wonderful mixolydian modes of Mr Zappa".

• 11 April. Estonian tabloid Post, 22 December 1995 - "Ambassador Toomas Tiivel attended the opening of Frank Zappa's monument in Lithuania."

• 10 April. Spanish monthly Ruta 66:
  - 1997 January : Strictly Commercial
  - 1997 September : You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore
  - 1997 December : Strictly Genteel

• 9 April. Interview with FZ in the Swedish weekly VeckoRevyn, February 1980.

• 9 April. "The Guitar 7" from Japan. This is an extra isue of the magazine Player, presenting "Frank & Dweezil Zappa Guitar Collection".

• 8 April. Japanese Record Collectors' Magazine, April 2022. This issue has an article on The Mothers 1971 boxset, plus a short review of the Japanese pressings of the Zappa Movie soundtrack and 200 Motels.

• 7 April. It is difficult to overestimate the level of Zappa's popularity in the Scandinavian countries. Here are two issues of the Finnish magazine Suosikki, which contain annual reader poll data for 1974 and 1975. Both lists have Zappa as the number 1 musician of the year. In 1974, he was followed by David Bowie and Gary Glitter, and in 1975, Elton John and David Bowie.

• 6 April. "An international insidermagazine" Arf-Dossier #115 containing, as it should be: new album reviews, many nice pictures, "The Greenaway Essays" by Andrew Greenaway, "News From Belgium" by Peter van Laarhoven, "Ullis Ecke" by Ulli Schäfer, and more.

• 6 April. Italian monthly Il Mucchio Selvaggio, December 1995. Strictly Commercial.

• 1 April. British trade magazine Record Business:
  - 1979 February : concert review "Zappa: faultless professionalism"
  - 1979 June : airplay chart (incl. Dancin' Fool)
  - 1980 January : Joe's Garage II & III
  - 1981 June : TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test
  - 1982 June : Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
  - 1983 January : concert review "LSO plays Frank Zappa"