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Frank Zappa: The Hot Rats Sessions
Groundbreaking music gets new lease of life 50 years on
FUSION FANATIC: Frank Zappa
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
FIFTY years ago, Frank Zappa declared that: “The present day composer refuses to die.” How true, and half a century on from the release of his iconic Hot Rats LP, the drum-roll intro on the album’s opening track Peaches En Regalia still makes the hairs on the back of the neck stand up.
This six-disc boxed set from Zappa Records and his studio creation Utility Research Kitchen compiles every composition recorded in several days in July 1969 when the album was made and it's filled with unedited and studio mixes, outtakes, period radio adverts and nuggets from Zappa’s vaults.
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