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Ringo Starr — dressed as Frank Zappa, mustache and all, yet playing someone named “Larry the Dwarf” – descends on wires from the ceiling of a TV studio while holding a prop genie lamp. Our Master of ...

Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels is getting a massive 50th-anniversary reissue for the 1971 film soundtrack. Long out-of-print, the new definitive six-CD box set arrives November 19th packed with the original ...

Before the lights went down, it was obvious Wednesday’s world premiere of suites from Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels at Walt Disney Concert Hall was not going to be your typical night at the symphony. To ...

A super-deluxe edition of Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels soundtrack will mark the album's 50th anniversary. Released in October 1971, the original LP contained music related to his surreal movie of the same ...

Is that a real poncho? I mean, is that a Mexican poncho, or is that a Sears poncho? Marc With a C intends to find out as he continues to traverse Frank Zappa‘s monolithic catalog this time from 1971’s ...

At Wednesday’s 10th birthday party for Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform the world premiere of Frank Zappa’s “200 Motels.” It’s made up of 13 orchestral suites by the ...

The history of Frank Zappa’s “200 Motels” is much like its composer; enigmatic and riddled with disparate dimensions. Originally culled from various musical scribblings written while on tour, and ...

Thus spake Zappa in Pauley Pavilion in 1970. Forty-three years later, this immortal injunction to Zubin Mehta at the premiere of Frank Zappa’s “200 Motels” came back Wednesday night to haunt us. And ...

A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus behind-the-scenes of the actual shooting and recording.

Twenty-two years after his death, Frank Zappa is as much of an enigma as ever. In his day, he was a polyglot rocker who drew on everything from 1950s doo-wop to free-form jazz, electronic sound and ...

The history of Frank Zappa’s “200 Motels” is much like its composer; enigmatic and riddled with disparate dimensions. Originally culled from various musical scribblings written while on tour, and ...