It wasn’t all satirical mocks. This six-minute response to the 1965 Watts Riots found Zappa the social commentator at his ...

From his debut in June 1966 with the Mothers of Invention 's double Freak Out! album to his death in December 1993 at the age ...

A look into the early influences of Frank Zappa and how he was freaking people out with avant-garde rock long before the Mothers of Invention were started.

Since his days alongside Frank Zappa, David Bowie and Robert Fripp ... “We could interlock our styles of guitar playing – but ...

Dweezil Zappa learned of Jimi Hendrix as a kid. Of course, that was from his legendary musical genius and rock ’n’ roll madman father, Frank Zappa, who died in 1993. “While I didn’t have ...

Frank Zappa once made a jilted boyfriend so angry that he stormed the stage and attacked him in front of a crowd of people.

As the Fender Stratocaster celebrates its 70th anniversary as one of, or surely the world’s most successful electric guitar design of all time, Guitar World has been leafing through the cover ...

Frank Zappa is heralded as one of music's counterculture heroes. He was so wedded to the pursuit of authenticity that he told fans to bypass the labels.

was once part of the Frank Zappa camp, Vai tells MusicRadar that he “can't say enough about Adrian” and his distinct guitar work. “I knew about his work with Zappa, but that didn’t show me ...

Frank Zappa helped the Alice Cooper Band transform from an unsuccessful nightclub band to one of the pioneers of shock rock.