The Real Frank Zappa Book

The Real Frank Zappa Book is an autobiography/memoir by Frank Zappa, co-written by Peter Occhiogrosso. The text is copyright 1989 Frank Zappa, and copyright 1990 Simon & Schuster, Inc.. Since 1999, the book has been published in paperback by Touchstone Books.

Contents

The Book has 19 chapters of varying lengths:

0. INTRODUCTION Book? What book?
1. How Weird Am I, Anyway?
2. There Goes the Neighborhood
3. An Alternative to College
4. Are We Having a Good Time Yet?
5. The Log Cabin
6. Send In the Clowns
7. Drool, Britannia
8. All About Music
9. A Chapter for My Dad
10. The One You've Been Waiting For
11. Sticks & Stones
12. America Drinks and Goes Marching
13. All About Schmucks
14. Marriage (as a Dada Concept)
15. "Porn Wars"
16. Church and State
17. Practical Conservatism
18. Failure
19. The Last Word

Reviews

Vanity Fair wrote of the book, "An autobiography of mostly hilarious stories...fireside war tales from the big bad days of the rockin' sixties...primer of the sonic avant-garde, the book bashes favorite Zappa targets and dashes a few myths about the man."^[1]

The New York Post said, "This book belongs in every home".^[2]

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