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Frank Zappa: The Hot Rats Sessions
Groundbreaking music gets new lease of life 50 years on
FUSION FANATIC: Frank Zappa
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
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TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
FIFTY years ago, Frank Zappa declared that: “The present day composer refuses to die.” How true, and half a century on from the release of his iconic Hot Rats LP, the drum-roll intro on the album’s opening track Peaches En Regalia still makes the hairs on the back of the neck stand up.
This six-disc boxed set from Zappa Records and his studio creation Utility Research Kitchen compiles every composition recorded in several days in July 1969 when the album was made and it's filled with unedited and studio mixes, outtakes, period radio adverts and nuggets from Zappa’s vaults.
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