Within the rock gold Frank Zappa as a diverse talent. He was a brilliant guitarist, bandleader and unsurpassed incomparable social satirist. He started in the sixties as the leader of the wacky avant-rock pioneers The Mothers. His subsequent solo work included everything from rock to jazz orchestral pieces, always brought the humor that was Zappa's trademark. He succumbed to cancer in 1993, but the
… astonishing prolific workaholic left an immense body of work. Genius is a word often used in pop music, but it is certainly related to Zappa.more