{"product_id":"lennon-nigey-being-frank-my-time-with-frank-zappa-9781879395558","title":"Being Frank: My Time With Frank Zappa","description":"Since his untimely death from prostate cancer in 1993, the legend of iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa has continued to grow. The decade following his passing has seen the publication of a number of books, both sacred and profane, which examine his life and work, but the best, and only, up-close-and-personal account of the man and his music remains the original: Nigey Lennonâ s Being Frank: My Time with Frank Zappa. Musician\/author Lennon maintained a personal and professional relationship with Zappa during the period which is generally agreed to have been the composerâ s most creative, and she invests her recollections with considerable musical and emotional insight.\u003cbr\u003eâ Irreplaceableâ ¦is the word to describe Being Frankâ ¦[Lennon's] memoir is both spiky and musically literateâ ¦Lennonâ s previous books were on Mark Twain and Alfred Jarry, which indicates the kind of cultural perspective required to get a * on Zappa: something brighter than rock-journo pedantry.â \u003cbr\u003eâ Ben Watson, author of Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play\u003cbr\u003eWith new material by the author, a Preface by David Walley (author of No Commercial Potential: The Saga of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention), a Foreword by Greg Russo (author of Cosmik Debris: The Collected History and Improvisations of Frank Zappa), and an Introduction by Candy Zappa.\u003cbr\u003eNIGEY LENNON is a composer, performer, and producer and the author of seven published books. She lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"California Classics Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53767485358422,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781879395558_1.jpg?v=1781803596","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/lennon-nigey-being-frank-my-time-with-frank-zappa-9781879395558","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}