Frank Zappa’s early departure from a series of performances by the Ensemble Modern of his The Yellow Shark at the Frankfurt festival last year again set off rumours that his health was in a ...

Frank Zappa was a master at decorating those pieces of time. Later, he would often transcribe his live solos with help from Steve Vai, who was hired in 1978 when he was just 18.

Frank Zappa's relationship with counterculture was very complex, and one facet of it he disagreed with was its emphasis on drugs.