Frank Zappa
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 Frank Zappa facts

• In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, jazz, jazz fusion,orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist
• He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers
• As a self-taught composer and performer, Zappa's diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often difficult to categorize
• While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern, along with 1950s rhythm and blues music
• He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands; later switching to electric guitar
• His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages
• He continued this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was rock, jazz or classical
• Zappa's lyrics reflected his iconoclastic views of established social and political processes, structures and movements, often humorously so
• He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech, self-education, political participation and the abolition of censorship
• Unlike many other rock musicians of his era, he personally disapproved of and seldom used drugs, but supported their decriminalization and regulation