The Real Frank Zappa Book

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name = The Real Frank Zappa Book
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author = Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso
cover_artist = A. West (concept), Jackie Seow-Pracher (design), Greg Gorman (photography)
country = United States
language = English
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genre = autobiography, memoir, essays
publisher = Simon & Schuster Touchstone Books
release_date = 1989
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 352 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-671-70572-5
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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:

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INTRODUCTION Book? What book?
#How Weird Am I, Anyway?
#There Goes the Neighborhood
#An Alternative to College
#Are We Having a Good Time Yet?
#The Log Cabin
#Send In the Clowns
#Drool, Britannia
#All About Music
#A Chapter for My Dad
#The One You've Been Waiting For
#Sticks & Stones
#America Drinks and Goes Marching
#All About Schmucks
#Marriage (as a Dada Concept)
#"Porn Wars"
#Church and State
#Practical Conservatism
#Failure
#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." [cite book |last=Zappa |first=Frank |authorlink=Frank Zappa |coauthors=Peter Occhiogrosso |title=The Real Frank Zappa Book |origdate= |origyear=1989 |accessdate=06 |accessyear=2008 |accessmonth=06 |edition=First Touchstone Edition 1999 |publisher=Touchstone |language=English |isbn=0-671-70572-5 |pages=front cover ]

The New York Post said, "This book belongs in every home." [cite book |last=Zappa |first=Frank |authorlink=Frank Zappa |coauthors=Peter Occhiogrosso |title=The Real Frank Zappa Book |origdate= |origyear=1989 |accessdate=06 |accessyear=2008 |accessmonth=06 |edition=First Touchstone Edition 1999 |publisher=Touchstone |language=English |isbn=0-671-70572-5 |pages=back cover ]

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