«NOn you can talk about music, it would be like dancing of architecture ». This phrase of undeniable wisdom belongs to Frank Zappa brilliant musician who with his corrosive and iconoclastic creativity has influenced and seduced several generations. To those who do not know him I recommend recovering him because his total freedom of expression is a breath of healthy air in our time so approved and slave to the algorithm.
Zappa was always ahead and was not afraid to experiment by contaminating rock, pop and cultured music, impunity with the art of the slap. Like when he made the verse to the sacredness of the Beatles with the album We’re Only in it for the money who recreated the cover photo-color in the form of an irreverent parody of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Despite being an exponent of the counterculture of the 70s, The musician was against drugs and alcohol but was still persecuted by the censorship of the US government And from each association with the ambition to control the moral of American citizens.
Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
Unfortunately he left too early, just 52 years oldleaving a endless discography, four children and his wife Gail who loved him all his life despite the continuous betrayals and the effort of being behind such a special but precisely for this reason so difficult.
A genius as a father
Now, thanks to the Memoir of the first daughter Moon Unit Zappa, Earth calls Luna. A crazy and sincere journey with a father named Frank Zappa (Mondadori), we can enter the complicated family dynamics of Rockstar and find out how problematic it is to have a genius as a father.
“Terra calls Luna. A crazy and sincere journey with a father named Frank Zappa” by Moon Unit Zappa (Mondadori)
Moon, who is 58 today, It tells with irony and sarcasm (the result of a long therapy) a childhood of lights and many shadows spent looking for the attention of this beloved but totally absent fatheralways and only concentrated at the work that she was passionate about the family. When Frank was not on tour, he spent the night working in his studio in the basement of the Losangeline house and, like a vampire, then slept all the rest of the day.
For irony of fate, the most popular song of Zappa is Valley Girl in which the daughter improvises a funny slang of the Californian girls. But not even this exploit will ensure the consideration of the father nor that of the mother who will be the management of the musician’s artistic inheritance to the smaller death. Moon’s existence was a real obstacle course And his book eventually turns for us into a precious survival manual. If she did it …
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