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  • A rock iconoclast
    Frank Zappa
    / Crowd-pleasing (yet controversial) releases and live shows

    …enormously influential jazz-rock fusion album Hot Rats (1969), which featured a memorable vocal from his old Lancaster friend Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart. Throughout the 1970s Zappa released instrumental albums that featured orchestral music, jazz, his own guitar improvisations, and, later, synthesizers and sequencers. He also released…

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    …enormously influential jazz-rock fusion album Hot Rats (1969), which featured a memorable vocal from his old Lancaster friend Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart. Throughout the 1970s Zappa released instrumental albums that featured orchestral music, jazz, his own guitar improvisations, and, later, synthesizers and sequencers. He also released…

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