FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Frank zappa - The Untold Story

‘I never pass up a rewatch’: why Valley Girl is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers explaining their most rewatched comfort films brings us back to 1980s LA

The Guardian - US · Sep 14

Alex Winter: ‘Michael Winner was the most erudite sociopath I’ve ever met’

The Bill & Ted actor on Keanu Reeves, whether there will be a fourth instalment and nights out in Brixton with the Death Wish director

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10

David Bowie’s guitarists on what it was like to play with the Thin White Duke: “I had just come from working with Frank Zappa for a year, and Frank was very directive. David was entirely the opposite”

10 years after Bowie's death, Adrian Belew, Peter Frampton, Carlos Alomar and other guitar-slinging comrades-in-arms recall high times alongside the master

Guitar World · Aug 19

“Frank took an extended 10-minute solo. I walked off stage. David Bowie and Iggy Pop were standing there”: Adrian Belew on how he went from playing with Frank Zappa to joining David Bowie’s band

Belew would serve as Bowie’s lead guitarist between 1978 and 1979, before returning as his musical director in 1990

Guitar World · Jul 16

“Someone in the band screamed, ‘Don’t you know what a privilege it is to play with Frank? How can you ruin his music?’” The notorious final tour of the Zappa band,and his bassist’s role in its demise

Though many regard the 1988 lineup as one of Zappa’s most musically formidable bands, the tour ended in disaster, with Zappa returning home, never to tour again

Guitar World · Jun 18

“It’s a veritable smorgasbord of musicality for the curious and a buffet of favourites for the fans.” Career-spanning Frank Zappa collection to be released on vinyl for the very first time

ZAPPAtite – Frank Zappa’s Tastiest Tracks will be available on coloured and black vinyl for the very first time and released in July

Louder · Jun 1

“I wanted to have the most Steve Vai song possible on the record – but I didn’t want it to be the classic guitar battle”: Matteo Mancuso on his blockbuster Steve Vai collaboration – and the advice the guitar icon gave him

The Sicilian guitar maestro wrote the breathtaking Solar Wind to be the most Steve Vai song he could possibly write – and for the man himself to guest on

MusicRadar · May 26

“A cherished figure within the Zappa community, where fans embraced him not only for his talent but for his generosity”: Ike Willis, long-time guitarist and vocalist with Frank Zappa, dies aged 70

Willis was part of Zappa’s bands and projects for a decade, and aside from his role as a guitarist, he voiced the protagonist in Zappa opus Joe’s Garage

Guitar World · May 20

“Mckelteigh And Lintleighmaye”: 58 Times Parents Didn’t Think Straight When Naming Their Kids

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Bored Panda · May 12

“The original idea was Steve Stevens, but he was busy with Billy Idol”: How Steve Vai ended up joining David Lee Roth's post-Van Halen band – thanks to Billy Sheehan

While Vai wasn’t his original choice, the Sheehan-Vai dynamic proved strong enough to outlast Roth’s project

Guitar World · Apr 29