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Frank Zappa was, in no apparent order, a first-rate cultural gadfly dedicated to upsetting American suburban complacency and puncturing the hypocrisy and pretensions of both the U.S. political establishment and the counterculture that opposed it; a contemporary orchestral composer uncompromisingly rooted in 20th-century avant-garde tradition; a rock bandleader who put together a series of stellar ensembles both under the rubric of the Mothers of Invention and under his own name; an erudite lover of the most esoteric traditions of rock and roll and of rhythm and blues; an innovative record producer whose use of high-speed editing techniques predated the later innovations of hip-hop; and one of the premier electric guitar improvisers of a generation that included Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Jeff Beck. One of the great polymaths of the rock era who, arguably, possessed a broader range of skills and interests than any of his peers, he was an instinctive postmodernist who demolished the barriers and hierarchies separating ā€œhighā€ and ā€œlowā€ culture.

Frank Zappa was a prolific workaholic who released more than 60 albums in his 30-year career. His first release with the original Mothers of Invention, the conceptual double album Freak Out! (1966), was a key influence on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band, released the following year. By way of wry acknowledgment, the cover of the Mothers' third album, We're Only in It for the money (1967), parodied that of Sgt. Pepper's, just as the music challenged the Beatles' visions of love and beauty with the deliberate ā€œuglinessā€ with which Zappa assailed what he saw as the totalitarian philistinism of the establishment and the vacuous fatuity of many aspects of hippie subculture. Zappa was not a hippie, he claimed. He was a ā€œfreak.ā€

After retiring the name the Mothers of Invention in the late 1970s, Frank Zappa withdrew from explicit political commentary and released, under his own name, the enormously influential jazz-rock fusion album Hot Rats (1969), which featured a memorable vocal from his old friend Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart. Throughout the 1970s Zappa released instrumental albums that featured orchestral music, jazz, his own guitar improvisations, and, later, synthesizers and sequencers. He also released rock-oriented vocal albums that, like most of his live concerts, specialized in jaw-dropping displays of technical virtuosity and crowd-pleasing exercises in misogynistic grossness such as ā€œTitties & Beerā€ (1978) and ā€œJewish Princessā€ (1979).

In the 1980s, by contrast, Frank Zappa was sufficiently angered by the policies of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's administration to rediscover politics. He set up voter-registration booths in the lobbies of his concerts and memorably testified against censorship at the Parents' music Resource Center hearings in 1985 in Washington, D.C. In 1982 he had an unlikely hit single with ā€œValley Girl,ā€ which featured a rap by his daughter Moon Unit; and, shortly before his death from prostate cancer in 1993, he was finally recognized as a composer of ā€œseriousā€ Music when his Yellow Shark suite was performed and recorded by Berlin's Ensemble Modern. Zappa was posthumously honoured when a set of his pieces was performed during the Proms festival at London's Royal Albert Hall. Considering that he had been banned from the Albert Hall in 1970 when the theatre manager objected to some of the saltier lyrics from Zappa's motion picture 200 Motels (1971), this was no mean achievement. Zappa was inducted into the rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

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Frank Zappa was one of the most accomplished composers of the rock era and was also a satirist with bottomless reserves of scorn. Frank Zappa was also perhaps the most prolific record-maker of his time, turning out massive amounts of music on his own Barking Pumpkin label and through distribution deals with Rykodisc and Rhino after Frank Zappa's long, unhappy associations with industry giants like Warner Brothers and the now-defunct MGM.

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Once becoming interested in music, Frank Zappa scored a couple of low-budget films and used the money to buy a low-budget recording studio. In 1964, Frank Zappa joined a band called the Soul Giants which evolved into the Mothers of Invention. The band was signed to the Verve division of MGM by producer Tom Wilson in 1966 and recorded its first album, a two-LP set called Freak Out!, which introduced Frank Zappa's interests in both serious music and pop as well as his scathing wit.

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